‘It was horror,’ says wife of quadriplegic man who sought assisted death after ER bedsore [Video]

Sylvie Brosseau, her voice breaking and her eyes moist, spoke of her husband’s final days over a year after he sought medical assistance in dying following a hospital stay that left him with a severe and painful bedsore.

“His last two weeks…it was horror,” she told reporters during a break in the public inquiry into his death that began Monday morning in Montreal. 

“I hope this will change things, because even now nothing has changed.”

Normand Meunier, 66, who was quadriplegic, was stuck on a stretcher in an emergency room at a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Que., for four days in January of last year.

During his stay, Meunier didn’t have access to a special mattress and developed a major pressure sore on his buttocks. It eventually worsened to the point where bone and muscle were exposed and visible — making his recovery and prognosis bleak. 

He was told the sore …