Mom gets a phone call from Brother. He says he has just gotten Power of Attorney for Dad and that Aunt A witnessed the document. He will get Dad acupuncture treatment this Saturday. Mom freaks out crying/wailing to me on the phone. "How could they do this, how could they do this". I find it incomprehensible that they want to be able to control Dad's medical destiny and yet leave Mom to clean up any mess. I try and calm Mom down. Tell her they can't possibly do it, although I don't know for sure.
I go online and find out about Power of Attorney for Canada and what are the requirements. Sure enough, the patient needs to specify the POA prior to admission to the hospital. If no POA is appointed then it goes to the wife automatically. Brother would need to take the issue to court to have Mom removed as POA.
I call Mom to tell her I will call the Social Worker at the hospital to let her know what's going on. I find this surreal. People can't really be doing this, can they?
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