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LETHBRIDGE, Alta. -- A health-care advocacy group says a dementia patient at a long-term care home in southern Alberta is recovering after a staff member found mice nibbling at her face.
Friends of Medicare says it happened at St. Therese Villa in Lethbridge on Sept. 1.
"We found out that last Sunday ... one of the staff of that facility walked into this resident's room and found mice nibbling on her face," said Sandra Azocar, executive director of Friends of Medicare.
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FILE - In this photo taken Thursday Oct. 13, 2011, a brown house mice is shown at the Farallones National Wildlife Refuge, Calif. (AP / Eric Risberg)
"The lady was in fact bitten and now she's been medically treated for that ... I'm completely horrified. I think it's beyond words. I can't imagine being that lady who had this happen to her."
The woman also has disabilities and would not have been able to move the mice off her face, Azocar said.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/staff-...mentia-patient-s-face-1.1446290#ixzz2eRLw8J6d
Friends of Medicare says it happened at St. Therese Villa in Lethbridge on Sept. 1.
"We found out that last Sunday ... one of the staff of that facility walked into this resident's room and found mice nibbling on her face," said Sandra Azocar, executive director of Friends of Medicare.
Photos
FILE - In this photo taken Thursday Oct. 13, 2011, a brown house mice is shown at the Farallones National Wildlife Refuge, Calif. (AP / Eric Risberg)
"The lady was in fact bitten and now she's been medically treated for that ... I'm completely horrified. I think it's beyond words. I can't imagine being that lady who had this happen to her."
The woman also has disabilities and would not have been able to move the mice off her face, Azocar said.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/staff-...mentia-patient-s-face-1.1446290#ixzz2eRLw8J6d
