Last November, a 71-year-old Morrisville woman died from gangrenous bedsores at University of Vermont Medical Center. Now, the married couple who took federal money to provide her with home care
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Soon after arriving at the emergency room at the University of Vermont Medical Center, Ray Paczkowski told a young doctor he had headaches and nausea; the doctor, seemingly annoyed, told him those symptoms didn’t sound like something necessitating an ER visit.
Other doctors performed an MRI on Paczkowski, who plays keyboards for the Vermont instrumental duo Soule Monde. Those doctors said three words no patient ever wants to hear.
“Three doctors in coats, they were like, ‘Look at this,’” Paczkowski recalled. They found a tumor on the cavity-like ventricles that transport fluid between the brain and spinal cord. That tumor Soule Monde’s website describes it as “golf ball sized” was putting pressure on the brain. A doctor told Paczkowski the growth may have been developing for three or four years.
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