Nope. Not buying it.
This video is 100% her trying to get the "ALR's Cancer" treatment from the haydurs. Who could rip widdle, sad chantal a new one when her poor granny is going through the
precise end-of-life stages? Emphasis on precise. More on that in a bit.
Palliative Rehab. Towards the end of the video, she says "maybe the REHAB PROGRAM will work..." There are many levels of palliative rehab care, and they're not interchangeable with hospice. Most patients with a flare up/episode of a progressive pulmonary disease are released to rehab. I'm actually surprised that her grandmother wasn't released to rehab the first time, especially if she was released on oxygen (and in the condition Chantal described, how was she not released on oxygen?). If patients no longer need hospital care, but are still on high-flow oxygen, they can have this in rehab, and have it monitored to reduce the flow till they're on regular oxygen and hopefully get off oxygen before release.
Most pulmonary patients in poor condition have their systems flooded with glucocorticosteroids. Crazy levels, even their taper levels are still high in rehab. Often this means that they need supplemental insulin even if the patient doesn't have diabetes. Their blood sugar levels will be checked about 4 times a day, and the numbers can be shockingly high. The rehab nurses will administer insulin as needed.
So in rehab, patients are tapered off steroids, oxygen, antibiotics if they're on them and they have their blood sugar monitored. They also get physical therapy. Someone doesn't go from not being able to breathe unassisted for more than a few days to walking around without physical therapy. The therapy increases as their supplemental oxygen decreases. Additionally, they typically get all sorts of care like mental health. Chantal's use of "rehab program" makes me think there's probably a patient education component as well.
These kinds of episodes are relatively normal with patients with progressive pulmonary disease. They can go from unable to breathe and function, hallucinating, psychosis to walking briskly with minimal oxygen in a surprisingly short period of time. Do they all? Obviously not. People die of this shit. But does chantal's description of her grandmother's state seem like she's absolutely no more than weeks from death? Meh, I wouldn't bet on it. Here's where chantal's precise description of the end of life stages comes in.
I'm not a medfag, just learned all the above because life. So I don't have precise terminology I wanted to look up the specific definition of palliative. Way leads on to way, and I ended up on a list of the end of life stages here:
https://www.crossroadshospice.com/hospice-resources/end-of-life-signs/ . Read them, then think about Chantal's video. She practically reads off this list like maybe she needed to do some research to max out the asspattery and compassion?
Also, she gives no specific details of her grandmother's condition. Isn't that weird? Just symptoms that really don't mean anything in the scope of patients with progressive disease episodes. I doubt there's anyone out there who has had to give care and advocacy for a loved one with a similar condition, who couldn't rattle off specific findings and treatments. She's very vague, isn't she?
Finally, she didn't need to make a video, she could have done her usual community post. This soft-spoken, sighing, vague-but-also-absolutely-critical video was made only to deflect. Right down to the youtuber-apology/sympathy-video style makeup.
ETA: just to clarify, rehab is often just a ward or floor at long term care/nursing homes.
