Inuvialuit woman says uncle’s stroke mistaken for drunkenness – CBC

‘He just looked at me and he was yelling ‘I’m not drunk! I’m not drunk!” says Maggie Papik

Aug 15, 2016

Maggie Papik knew something was wrong when she got a call from staff at her uncle Hugh Papik’s elders home on Aug. 3.

According to Papik, staff told her she needed to “deal with him” because he was drunk. They had found him lying on the ground covered in his own urine.

Hugh Papik, a 68-year-old Inuvialuit man, had had several strokes in the past.

“As soon as I got close enough, he clinged to me,” she said.

“He just looked at me and he was yelling ‘I’m not drunk! I’m not drunk!’”

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