How EJ (JB's Hubbie) and JB Died

FIL - EJ died from a hospital pneumonia. He went in complaining of stomach pains. They never found what was causing them. I didn't know if I believed him or not, but he did go through a lot to get attention. They did endoscopy, colonoscopy and other tests. This was after him going in several times, being given Prilosec, and sent home. To my knowledge, they never tested him for food poisoning or food-derived illnesses. Re-read the nasty house post -- think that was a possibility? When they were getting ready to send him home, his lungs started filling with fluid. Hubbie said he didn't have the strength to fight it because he'd had nothing to eat for a week due to the tests. Hospital Pneumonia.

(I described the house nastiness in my other blog)

MIL-JB went into the hospital complaining of vague stomach ailments as well. When she had been there for about 24 hours, she went in to "septic shock". Her blood pressure dropped and she became unconscious. She had just eaten when she went to the hospital. I did some looking. There are some forms of food illness that can (rarely) cause sepsis. There are some hospital bugs that go around that can cause that too.

The hospital is not a good one. My own Grandmother died in the same hospital. GM was old and had incurable cancer, but there is a good chance that a medication error shortened her life. (Which in my GM's case was not necessarily bad considering her age and condition.) Also I had an Aunt that died due to a cancer that was not diagnosed that SHOULD have been diagnosed and would have been curable if it had been. Her Dr. was at the same hospital.

I still wonder if both MIL and FIL initiated their final stays due to undiagnosed food borne illness considering that it's really not checked for that much, they both had gastric complaints, that there was lots of potential for food poisoning in their house. With an already incompetent hospital, would they find something an competent one usually does not find?