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On a ventilator and in a hospital bed for the last two years, Dorie Hovsepian spends 12 to 14 hours a day with her visiting husband Peter watching a TV hooked up with rabbit ears.

It’s her only enjoyment, according to her daughter Karen Parr, whose 75-year-old mother suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which affects the lungs.

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But earlier this week, Hovsepian was in tears, asking to be taken home to die when she received a hand-delivered letter from Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, Parr said.

It said the TV was being removed from her room and left at the security desk for Peter Hovsepian to pick up and bring home. If he brought it back into his wife’s room, “we will take steps to escalate the issue which may include a Notice of Trespass to you, whereby you will not be permitted on site until you can comply with the hospital’s request.”

The letter arrived Monday at Dorie Hovsepian’s room in the Emara Centre for Healthy Aging and Mobility (formerly called Malden Park) after an earlier meeting with the couple on Nov. 17, when they were asked to remove the TV by Nov. 24.