shockedcanadian
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Our decline is going to be rapid and certain. Police states cost everyone in Canada, especially the ill and most vulnerable.
When her nine-year-old son's heart surgery was recently cancelled for the second time in as many months, Rachael Armstrong was left angry, frustrated and "visibly shaking."
"My reaction was not very good … my stress was through the roof," said Armstrong from Kamloops, B.C. Her son Jackson Anderson has been waiting for surgery at B.C. Children's Hospital since May.
"As a parent, it's scary to think that your child's medical care might be getting pushed back and pushed back," she told The Current's Matt Galloway.
Jackson was born with holes in his heart, a condition for which he has already had 10 surgeries. Last spring, doctors said he would need to have his aorta replaced with a mechanical valve, but that surgery was postponed in both October and November because there was not adequate staffing to oversee his recovery in ICU.
The delays extend the anxiety that Armstrong has felt since the day she learned he would need surgery.
When her nine-year-old son's heart surgery was recently cancelled for the second time in as many months, Rachael Armstrong was left angry, frustrated and "visibly shaking."
"My reaction was not very good … my stress was through the roof," said Armstrong from Kamloops, B.C. Her son Jackson Anderson has been waiting for surgery at B.C. Children's Hospital since May.
"As a parent, it's scary to think that your child's medical care might be getting pushed back and pushed back," she told The Current's Matt Galloway.
Jackson was born with holes in his heart, a condition for which he has already had 10 surgeries. Last spring, doctors said he would need to have his aorta replaced with a mechanical valve, but that surgery was postponed in both October and November because there was not adequate staffing to oversee his recovery in ICU.
The delays extend the anxiety that Armstrong has felt since the day she learned he would need surgery.