Dear Katie,
I will try my best to respond to your email below, but
first I want to thank you for your thoughts and
concern!

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...Edith's posting which
> encourages you to investigate
> your dad's death further and to consider the
> possiblity that there was
> negligence or wrongdoing somewhere at the VA.

We have never thought there was Negligence or
wrongdoing at the VA. My dad stabbed himself at home.

  You
> and your family could have
> requested an autopsy, tox screens, and blood levels
> prior to the time your
> father was prepared for burial.  (I assume your
> father has been buried, or
> possibly cremated, since he died in February).

Well I'm sure we could have, if our minds were
functioning correctly. We were and probably are still
in shock! I was under the impression until just a few
weeks ago, that there was an autopsy. My mother
finally informed me that there will just be a coroners
report. My father was buried on 2-13-2002.

> I assume that the VA, in its
> own internal investigation, interviewed personnel
> and possibly performed some
> tests or other procedures.  There should be the
> record of this investigation
> as well as the medical records at the hospital.

I was told yesterday that this is confidential, would
I be able to get a copy of their investigation?
>
>         I think you, your mother, and your family,
> although it is very
> difficult to accept the fact and manner of your
> father's death, can
> determine, can sense, if there were problems at the
> VA, or with the attending
> physician, at the time of your father's death.

My mother has the highest respect for Dr.Peacock and
has no intentions of bringing any law suits against
him, or the hospital. She believes in her heart that
this was a result of medication induced
hallucinations.

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 Exhuming a body is very expensive as
> well as emotionally
> harrowing.

I would not even consider for one second asking my
mother to do such a thing! I can not and will not even
put her through the emotional toll, that even this
discussion would have on her. I hope you understand
that my mother is my number one priority in life right
now? Answers to my questions will not provide any
comfort, if they could even be obtained? if it were to
injure or God forbid kill my mom!

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  I would be much
> more interested in the
> dosages, and the frequency of those dosages, of
> medication as given in the
> hospital, and recorded in the chart, and the
> matching of actual dosages as
> given and recorded with the doctor's orders as
> written in the chart.

He was not in the hospital! I posted what drugs and
frequency of each drug a month ago, if you want I'll
see if I still have it and forward it to you?

I would
> also be interested in any blood levels or tox
> screens of the blood taken at
> the time of death, but I doubt that any were taken
> and you can't get them
> know.

It is possible some blood levels or tox screens will
be in the coroners report, which I will see at the end
of April.

No lawyers! if any doctor on this list wants to
investigate, let them contact us, but no more strain
for my mother.

Please consider this scenario and it is a valid one!
If I hired a lawyer, my mom would be put through this
hell all over again and possibly for nothing. What if
they find that the only one who could have prevented
this was my mother! What if they tell her if she had
taken him to the hospital, maybe he'd be alive. Did
she know what drugs he was taking and how much the day
he died? NO, then why not? I will not take that
chance, she already feels guilty. My mother did not
kill my dad! but sometimes in these types of
proceedings, things can get ugly and all turned
around.

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Thank you Katie! This unfortunately will remained
inconclusive. My dad died as a result of complications
of medications taken for Parkinson's Disease.

Johanna Thompson
Ontario, CA, USA
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Father-Clarence Marion (Manie)Brady-Deceased 2-11-2002
72 at death, diagnosed with PD in 1988






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