Spina bifida patient says Montreal hospital staff twice offered MAID unprompted [Video]

Tracy Polewczuk has spina bifida, a birth defect that can cause weak bones. Two years ago, she was in an accident and broke her leg. The injury never properly healed.

She says she lives in constant pain and relies on daily home care visits from the Pointe-Claire CLSC, but recently, she says the care has been getting worse.

“They don’t bother asking like they know your name, but they don’t address you. It’s just so impersonal, and they don’t care,” Polewczuk said in a recent interview. “You get up when they tell you to. You go to bed when they tell you. You do what they tell you to. That’s it. You have zero control over your life.”

Because of her injury, she says she needs to be moved a certain way.

“And I’ve gotten hurt several times because people won’t listen,” she said.

Polewczuk says she feels hopeless as …