‘Whoops:’ Winnipeg nurse calls son, says mom is dead, then admits blunder
WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg man says he expected he would get a call someday about the death of his 99-year-old mother — but not one that would turn out to be a mistake.
Dan Nemis says his mother, Sophie, was taken to Seven Oaks General Hospital last month with a sprained right ankle and needed to stay because she couldn’t get around.
Six days later, a nurse called his cellphone and told him his mother had died.
Nemis says that as he was crying, the nurse repeated that his mother had died, then said, “whoops, wrong person.”