Worst experience. Heartless terrible people in the...

Worst experience. Heartless terrible people in the ICU. My father was dying and they set rules specifically for our family to prevent us from seeing my dad. They caused trouble with family and did not deliver care to my father. He was a 28 year emergency room nurse so knew the ins and outs of health care and had been an acting supervisor for several years and was even the recipient of a Florence Nightingale Award. He had a respiratory condition and had to wear an oxygen mask at all times. The oxygen mask prevented him from being able to eat and he was unable to handle a less invasive mask as it wasn't keeping his oxygen level up. He repeatedly requested to be given TPN as sustenance since he couldn't eat. They kept saying we'll try this and then look at TPN. They would never address it and my dad was angry and felt like they were giving him poor care due to the fact that he was on state insurance and that is why they wouldn't give him the TPN. The more he requested it the more negative the conditions became for my father and our family until they began pushing for my father to go into Hospice. He felt like they were sending him to die instead of giving him care. I have never been married and decided to ask my dad how he would feel if my boyfriend and I were married there at the hospital so he would be there to see it. He agreed and asked me to invite members of the media so that he could let them know about the condition of care he was receiving. The morning I was to get my marriage license I received a call that he was gone. His journal came up missing from the hospital that he had been keeping that whole time. However, days later when we opened his bible we found a letter he wrote us on the inside cover written just a few hours before he passed saying that someone was trying to kill him by delivering a medication to him despite knowing it decreased blood saturation that was already low. The medical examination was performed by the doctor who had treated him in the ICU which to me seems like a conflict of interest. They say said medicine wasn't in his system. My dad died alone and afraid before he could ever see me get married. The experience with the hospital truly was worse than the loss as they made everything far more painful and difficult and again I stress held us to a different standard than their normal visiting policies keeping family and friends who had come long distances from being able to be with such a great and important person in our lives and the lives of others, a man who had honorably served his country and a man who has saved many lives in his work. The staff I dealt with in the ICU need to go back and read the oath they swore to when they first started their careers because I was appalled at the rude and heartless nature they possessed. Terrible terrible people who instead of saving a life starved my father to death and refused to give him water even within the medical limit of their plan. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE IF YOU VALUE YOUR CARE!