Well, at least it was free.
Hanke’s partner, Morgan Kirby, told media gathered at C.P. Seeley Park that Hanke broke her ankle in three places when she slipped while retrieving a package from her front step on Aug. 12.
Kirby said she was sent home from Royal University Hospital and scheduled for surgery three days later, but she was then sent home again because there was no record of the scheduled surgery when she arrived for it.
She died five days later while waiting for a new date for the operation, he said.
“No one’s shocked, and that’s the scary part,” Kirby said. “We should be shocked right now. We should be floored. And we’re not.
“Because we all have heard this happen way too many times. It keeps happening. It keeps happening. It can’t happen.”
The family was told Hanke died from blood clots that travelled from the ankle into her lungs.
More root causes.