Roger Foley was admitted to hospital in London so long ago, Justin Trudeau – now gone after nearly a decade as prime minister – was only three months into Canada’s top job.

The COVID-19 pandemic was still four years away, and the world would not know Donald Trump as a U.S. president – in his first go-round in the job – for another year yet.

More than nine years later, Foley is still at the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) where he was admitted on Feb. 5, 2016.

The 49-year-old, who lives with severe disabilities that limit his ability to move and care for himself, doesn’t leave LHSC’s Victoria Hospital.

Foley gets few visitors to his sixth-floor room and is the first to admit that he doesn’t need the level of advanced medical care that Southwestern Ontario’s largest hospital provide

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