The same goes for Andrea Silcox, 54, the youngest daughter of James Silcox, 84, who died Aug. 17, 2007, eight days after moving into Woodstocks Caressant Care nursing home. Andrea Silcox was the only family member in the courtroom of the eight elderly nursing home residents Wettlaufer is accusing of killing while working as a nurse in Woodstock and London.
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Silcox said she had her suspicions that something just didnt seem right after her fathers death.
Despite a broken hip, a two-insulin-needle-a-day diabetes and some dementia, her father was a good strong man.
But in the days before his death, her father wasnt well. When she last saw him, he was having flashbacks to the war and his job as a machine shop foreperson at Standard Tube.
Silcox also knew from her work as a housekeeper at another Oxford County long-term care home that new residents often have trouble adjusting to their new surroundings and will lash out and its sometimes not pretty.
Shockingly, even though family members asked for an autopsy, the coroners office in Oxford County talked them out of their request. The coroner said, He lived in long-term care, he was 85 years old, why bother? she said.
Thats left Silcox and her family with a lingering regret that perhaps a post mortem might have yielded some useful evidence for the case.
If her father died of an insulin overdose, shes been assured by medical professionals that all of the drug would have likely been out of his system and possibly not detected, Silcox said.
