After three hospital stays in hallways, he fears going back

Bernie Radelfinger found his recent hospital stays so degrading and traumatic that he fears ever going back.

The Sooke couple, both educational assistants, decided to share what happened to them after reading a Times Colonist story on the plight of Eric ­Roberts. The 87-year-old spent nine days of his 10-day stay in the hallway of the same hospital trying to recover from serious infections. “I am really disappointed that this gentleman had to go through this experience, but to him and to all British Columbians, we will work night and day to make sure that you get the health care that you deserve,” he said.

A privacy partition did little to help. Her husband’s belongings were on the floor at the end of the bed in the hallway “where the silverfish crawled.” On Jan. 4 the couple went to the hospital for a follow-up CT scan. It showed Radelfinger had developed a blood clot on his liver and a cyst on his pancreas. He was sent home with blood thinners.

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