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[Victoria Watcher]

https://x.com/Libert...587354406162463

 

[max.bravo]

Is he still a Mormon? That seemed like a strange conversion.

[Matt R.]

I’ll just leave this here.

[Mike K.]

Everyone with money gets healthcare in the US and Mexico now when they truly need it and time is of the essence. It's not exactly a secret. Luckily, this frees up resources in Canada for those who cannot afford international care.

[lanforod]

That’s not the shocking part. The MAID part is. That is unacceptable

[Victoria Watcher]

I feel there is something fishy about this story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She visited the provincial legislature on Tuesday to plead for help getting surgery to remove her remaining parathyroid gland.

 

Currently there is no Saskatchewan surgeon able to perform the operation.  

 

Van Alstine said she must be referred out of province, but she can’t obtain a referral without first being seen by an endocrinologist — and none of them are accepting new patients.

 

Van Alstine said the pain has become so unbearable that she has applied and been approved for MAID on Jan. 7.

 

“My friends have stopped visiting me. I'm isolated. I've been alone lying on the couch for eight years, sick and curled up in a ball, pushing for the day to end,” she said.

“I go to bed at six at night because I can't stand to be awake anymore.”

 

Her partner, Miles Sundeen, said it's been a long journey trying to get help.

 

"It's a complex case because she has had surgeries already but they haven't been 100 per cent successful," said Sundeen.

 

"We really need help to find an endocrinologist and a surgeon that will take her on that are very familiar with more complex cases."

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...krill-9.6993461

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 December 2025 - 08:55 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

She visited the provincial legislature on Tuesday to plead for help getting surgery to remove her remaining parathyroid gland.

 

 

 

 

For the past eight years, Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease,  normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT).

 

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 December 2025 - 09:02 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 December 2025 - 09:06 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Currently there is no Saskatchewan surgeon able to perform the operation.  

 

 

Van Alstine said she must be referred out of province, but she can’t obtain a referral without first being seen by an endocrinologist — and none of them are accepting new patients.

 

 

Both these seems like red flags.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 December 2025 - 09:35 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

So now we find out that she has not been approved for MAID.

 

 

 

and that "Sundeen said referrals have since been sent to three specialized clinics — at McMaster University in Hamilton, another in Toronto and one in Edmonton."

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...rgery-9.7009762

 

 

 

 

 

 

I told you this story had significant holes.

[Victoria Watcher]

Nothing today.

[Victoria Watcher]

WARMINGTON: Glenn Beck says covering Jolene's surgery costs means 'no' to MAID

 

The key now is whether or not this medical approach is what the Saskatchewan woman needs

 

 

 

 

The only question now is, is the surgery they provide at the Norman Parathyroid Center near Tampa the one that will help get Jolene Van Alstine’s life back?

 

[...]

 

Beck has talked with Dr. Jim Norman personally, as well as President Donald J. Trump’s Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz in Washington.

 

“They are looking at her records now and they are involving a bunch of doctors,” Beck told Jerry Agar in an interview on Newstalk 1010 Friday.

 

[...]

 

She’s used to it. For eight years she has suffered from normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism, which creates much nausea and bone pain. She has had surgeries in Saskatchewan that have not solved the problem and has run into red tape to get a doctor who can help her get the specific operation that the Norman clinic offers.

 

 

https://torontosun.c...an-woman-jolene

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 December 2025 - 08:39 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

 

Recall, she wants her last one gone. 

 

She visited the provincial legislature on Tuesday to plead for help getting surgery to remove her remaining parathyroid gland.

 

 

So that all are four are removed.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 December 2025 - 08:45 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

No updates.

[Victoria Watcher]

Nothing new for Jolene Van Alstine. Two weeks later.

Maybe it’s not as simple as described.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 December 2025 - 12:13 PM.

[dasmo]

If it’s not new it’s not news so there are more pressing things out there to generate clicks.

[Victoria Watcher]

No news.