Oct. 8, 2024

Hospital Protocol Killed My Dad

Hospital Protocol Killed My Dad

Heidi regrets trusting the medical system. She tells of a 14-day ordeal filled with dangerous drug cocktails and a medical team repeatedly telling her "your dad is really old and weak".

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Heidi regrets trusting the medical system. She tells of a 14-day ordeal filled with dangerous drug cocktails and a medical team repeatedly telling her "your dad is really old and weak".

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be intentional. So I want you all to be aware

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of what's going on in the state of Oklahoma and

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that it is time for Oklahoma to show up and

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stand up. Because on October seventeenth, at two thirty pm

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at the Oklahoma State Capital Representative JJ Humphrey is hosting

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a COVID response study. Now, a group that I am

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associated with, called the Oka Defenders of Medical Freedom is

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bringing experts late doctor David Martin, doctor Pierre Cory, doctor

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Mary Tally, Boden Warner, Mendenhall, and others to show the

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evidence to our state legislators. Our goals are to open

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investigations into the hospitals where people died of the COVID protocols,

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halt the gene therapy injections, obtain appropriate legislation, and ensure

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that what happened during COVID never happens again. Oh Klahoma,

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make sure that you put October seventeenth, two thirty pm

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at the State Capitol on your calendar, and let's show

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up today. We are going to lean in with a

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special guest. Her name is Heidi Fleming. Her father was

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John Sparky Fleming and who was killed by the COVID

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hospital protocols that are still in use today. Welcome with me, Heidi. Hello, Heidi,

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how are you hey?

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Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to

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in supporting the group to her former fans.

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Group, Absolutely, we are grateful that you are with us,

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and your story is important. It matters, and it needs

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to be out there. People need to hear the stories

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of what has happened across this nation, and I think, Heidi,

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that gives them encouragement to say, wait, this wasn't normal,

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This wasn't the standard of care that had been in

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place for years and years. COVID changed many many things

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in our healthcare system, and as a nurse, I know

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decades before that shift was happening. But before we get

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into the story, you're in Georgia, and I just want

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to check and make sure are you safe and did

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you get hit by Helene?

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Oh?

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Yeah, we're safe here.

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We got a lot of rain and win but we

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were not too far from the Florida coastline but probably

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five hours, but it didn't hit our area too bad.

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Oh good, Lud.

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I'm glad. I'm glad that you're okay, because that's an

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informant question. When I saw that you were in Georgia,

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I was like, oh, you know, immediately the his prayers

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go up. You know, so many people now are impacted.

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But I want to talk to you about your dad.

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He was a police officer, a member of the crime

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Prevention Team and the canine Unit. He did some impressive stuff.

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He stood guard at Martin Luther King's funeral, his home

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the Great Site. He was chosen to escort celebrities such

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as Rosslyn Carter and Pat Nixon, so that is just extraordinary.

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But he was also a bodybuilder. He bench pressed three

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hundred pounds. I mean, I wish I could do that.

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I'm like ten pounds right now. He enjoyed spending time

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on his boat and traveling. He sounds like he was

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just a wonderful dad. Heidi and I would love it

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if you just tell us a little bit about your dad.

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Oh yeah.

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He was pretty outgoing and never met a stranger. He

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just loved people. He was a real people person, even

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if it was just a you know, a waitress at

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a restaurant. He loved to give tips and put a

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big smile out to everybody, get to know people. He

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would always ask about everyone's family. Even when he was sick,

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he was still All the nurses loved him. They said

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he was a little teddy, a big teddy. Barry was

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a big man, about two hundred and thirty pounds and

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just larger than life. Played football, all his friends all

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remembered him as sparky, so that's but he was a

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wonderful father and we were just proud of him.

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He had pretty impressive with the Atlanta.

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Police Department and he went with del till later after retirement.

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But he had a stroke early in life in his

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forties and had to, you know, go on disability. But

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he was still active even after that. He still rode

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a bike and lifted weights and lived on his own,

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did everything for himself. Up until this, had never really

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had any major issues other than you know, the stroke

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had left about thirty percent use.

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In one arm, and he had a little light limp,

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and you.

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Know, as he aged his limp maybe got a little

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more and he used a cane only the last couple

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of years. And then he had a backed up bladder,

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just a mildly swollen prostate with normal kidney function was

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what all. This started in October of twenty twenty two

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when he fell out of bed and this was the

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first backup with his bladder, and he went to a

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urologist and they suggested in the hospital putting a catheter

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bag on and we were told that was safe and

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it was better to do that. Till we could get

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them to a urologist in the office. This is what

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continued with in three infections off this bag.

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But other than that, he was doing great.

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He was, you know, in therapy doing exercises, and I

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took them to my house and signed them up for

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home therapy, and he was just tickled to you know,

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we were tickled to have them move in with us.

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I was hopeful that he would just stay with us

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because he was fiery independent. I mean, he drove a

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sports car, had a Mustang. You couldn't really tell them

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what to do.

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But it sounds like it. And he went out to

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eat every day, twice a day.

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So that was his goal that he wanted to get

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back out to the restaurants sin see his friends, and

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he liked being social and he loved to even talk

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to the therapist and the nurses. And he was doing

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really well. But his bag got infected, the catheter bag.

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It was in dwelling and we went in back in

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the hospital February, let's see in December that year. Let's

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see February, the twenty twenty, it would have been twenty three,

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was the last infection, and he was so large. I

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was having trouble. I mean, he was a little bit mobile,

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but not super mobile, and because he was so big,

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I couldn't really My husband worked and we couldn't get

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him to the eurologists.

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So the nurse had changed his bag.

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And when we finally got to the urologist in February,

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the doctor at the hospital.

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We liked him.

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He said, you know, get him to the urologist as

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soon as you can. And we took him within a

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few days after and he was real tired coming out

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of the hospital and recovering from that, and I said,

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you know, is there anything we can do? He hates

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this catheter bag and he said, well, his age, he's

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already got heart failure. He had thirty percent heart function.

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But he said it's probably better. This is your best

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option to you know, or only option really, to leave

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a catheter bag. And we didn't like it, and I thought, I,

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you know, it's something just seemed off about it. I

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found out later he might could have did a straight cathing.

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I was told later my husband's sisters, a nurse and

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several other people, we know you straight cathing and said

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it's pretty simple, and we don't know why we weren't

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being told about that or sometimes there's just a delay

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with your bladder to restart when you've wore a catheter bag.

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But I think it was holding him back because he

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was definitely up to walking, and the therapy said his

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legs were really strong, had really big legs, and he

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was you know, had a lot of strong strength. The

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balance was off slightly and every time he would get up,

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he would go across the kitchen kind of have to rest.

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But it was just something was holding him back. Then

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that the bag started. We just we just got him

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up back to the urologist. I actually took a senior

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bus ride up to because he was so big.

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I was afraid he.

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Would fall and I couldn't hold him. So I said,

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up a senior bus ride to take us. It's not far,

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but it's the It was the Georgia urologist and we

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went up there and he, you know, he just he said, oh,

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it probably just got infected because the nurse didn't change

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it right, just leave the bag on. So that was

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the last and I was I was worried all along.

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I said, well, he really doesn't like it. I kept

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telling him he wants it off, but we unfortunately, I

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went to get my best judgment and left it on them,

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and he was infacted probably within a week, and infection

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just brewed up and he was just falling asleep the

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morning of April. It was April the fourth, twenty twenty three,

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he was just his head was kind of dropping over,

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and he was confused. He said, I ordered a pizza

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for you, and I said, you ordered a pizza. I

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knew something was wrong because his speech was a little

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more jumblye and he seemed confused. So I called the

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home care and the therapy was about to come to

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do his exercise. I said, I think he's too sleepy,

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and I said.

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He seems can used.

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And the therapy center said, just call and take them

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to the er and get them checked out. It's probably

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an infection. And I thought, oh no, don't tell me.

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So I thought, well, I started to think maybe I

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should order some antibiotics and see if I didn't have

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anything in the house. I think I had a little

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bit of horse pace, but I was like, I was

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worried because I thought this could turn to sepsus, so

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maybe I should check them out. And I called the ambulance.

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All his vitals were good and my husband came home

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from work and lunched, but he couldn't go with me.

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He said, his vitals are all stable, his blood pressure

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and his oxygen level. But we decided just to take

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them because the ambulance said, I, you know, I'll.

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Just go ahead.

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We'll take them and you know, check them out. And

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I was hoping he would just stay.

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A night or two.

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When we went there, the er said it looked like

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it had aggravated his heart and his heart was like

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kicking down to fifteen percent.

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That was spooky.

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And then yeah, and then Heidi, let me just let

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the audience know when she says fifteen percent, she just

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means fifteen percent of the heart is functioning. That's how

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much blood is getting out into the systemic system. And

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I just want people to be aware, your dad when

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you took him to the hospital did not have COVID. Correct. Yes,

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he got it in COVID in the hospital.

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Yes, that's what we were told. But they said they

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would keep him a few nights and just wash his

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heart and clear out the any you know, any infection.

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So they gave the man of biotics and everything seemed

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to be going good. He was just really sleepy, but

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by the tenth of April, the ninth and tenth he

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was doing good, it says, improving on his records, and

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his heart has no crackles, his lungs are clear, no

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heart murmur, regular heart rhythm. And by the tenth and

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ninth he was talking, you know, back more to himself.

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He was actually got out of bed and set up

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and watched TV on the tenth and was he liked

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to watch Westrooms and he was watching gun Smoke and

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he said, Matt Dillon, you know, and he was giggling.

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And the nurse brought his dinner and she was saying, oh,

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you work for Atlanta Police Department and all this, and

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he said, yeah, yeah, you know, it was pretty good.

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And he was, you know, just talking a little bit.

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So she had him up in the chair about five

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hours and he stood up in the little glider. I

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actually helped the nurse because therapy had showed me how

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to give him a little support. He got up himself

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and she said, boy, he's got a lot of strength,

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you know, still he doesn't have that. And I said, well,

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he's been doing a lot of exercises. And I said,

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we're going to have to get this bag off of you. Definitely,

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I said, we'll figure something out.

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It's this.

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I can't keep going through the hospital stay. And he

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actually felt so good. He said, well, let's just.

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Go on home. I feel good.

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And I said, well, you know, they they suggested just

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monitoring his heart and there really wasn't anything else they

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could do. They said, you know, this one little heart

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medication was all they gave them because that, you know,

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that was all they were going to be able to do.

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So it was what it was with the heart. But

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I said, you know, he got mad and he slammed

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his fist. He said, you get your car and you

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get me out of here. And I feel so bad,

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but I said, well, you know, I trusted the doctor.

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I thought, well, you know, we've had.

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Good luck with this hospital and just actually a couple

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of weeks before, my mother had been in there with

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heart she had some stints put in and she had

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good luck.

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So we we did trust Pedmont.

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It was Pedmont and Fayetteville, and we thought, I mean,

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we had had good luck, and I did, like most

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of the nurses. But the next day, it was the

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eleventh of April, they had it out of town. Nurse

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came in and she just had angry demeanor. She told

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me she was from out of town and I'm just

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here for an extra job. And she suggested I give

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my dad a X ray contrast die and she said

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it's safe and routine that they wanted me to sign

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for it, and I kind of questioned. I said, well,

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he seems to be doing a lot better, and she

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said yeah, but you know, it's just a little routine.

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We're going to look at his ab and I said, well,

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there's no problems and she said no, just routine. And

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I thought, well, I guess they know what they're doing,

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and I you know, so I thought that's the harm

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a little X ray and I signed and then my

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dad wanted to know what that was and he ate he.

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I said, well, it's just an X ray. He was

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really furious with me and said, no, they want that money.

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You get me home. And I said, well, Daddy, I

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guess it's just an X ray. You'll go home in

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a day, don't worry about it. And he got really mad.

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But he didn't want to do it, so I felt

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bad already. I was like, well, I didn't want to

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force him if he didn't want to do that, but

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lo and behold. After he got back from the X ray,

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and he did seem more tired that day for some reason.

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But I found out later they had started this protocol

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of opioids and laxatives and he was already getting diarrhea

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before they took them for the X ray, and I

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mentioned that to the nurse. I said, now he's getting

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a little diarrhea, and he said, can I get up

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in the side chair and he wanted to set on

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that side commode and she said he's too big.

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I can't help them.

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And I said, well, now therapy trained me, and he's

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got a lot of strength. I said he could step

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right out into it. And she said, I don't have

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time for that. He's too big. So she went out

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and I said, okay, well, I guess that's fine, but

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you know, he just the diarrhea was odd, and I

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remember now looking back, I realized that they had already

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started giving him and you're supposed to have so many

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fluids before you even do a contrast I and then

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I found out later with heart failure, it's really bad

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on not for people recommended for older people in heart failure.

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So it did he ate.

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When he got back, he seemed okay, and he started

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eating ate a big piece of chicken, and he was

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watching his Westerns, and then all of a sudden, he said,

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my next wedding. I can't breathe, Hatie. He said, the

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call the nurse, Call the nurse, and he was like

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gasping a little bit, and it just scared me. And

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I looked and we were on ICU, but I couldn't

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find any nurses though. The one nurse from out of

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town was gone, the angry nurse. I was trying, you know,

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I tried to get along and be nice to everybody,

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but I said, gosh dddy, I don't see your nurse.

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I said, let me just go get this other nurse

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and she was with a different room, and I said,

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he can't breathe, he can't breathe, and she hit a

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button and called in all the respiratory crew, probably five

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of them came running and gave him nebulizer treatments and

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got it settled down, and he seemed okay. He just

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kept watching TV, and it was getting later in the

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night and I was kind of concerned. I thought, well,

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maybe I should just spend the night. And I said,

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you want me to just stay and he said, no, Now,

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I'm gonna watch Perry Mason. He had his shows all

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lined up. So I said, well, you know, I waited

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about an hour and he had three different attacks though

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of this, like swelling in his throat. So it's settled

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down about an hour and he said, I'll watch Perry

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Mason and you just get your rest. And I said, well,

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I'm going to be back first thing tomorrow, so i'll come,

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you know, at least by twelve or one, I'm back

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up there. But he called about nine o'clock in the

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morning and he was really frantic. He goes Heidie Heidie,

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and his breathing was all crisp, and you could hear

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like fluids or something in his breathing, and he hung

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up the phone. And I called up there and I

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couldn't get a hold of a nurse, and I was

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all worried. I thought, well, maybe nothing's wrong, but he

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just seemed alarmed. And then when I got up there,

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he had a bypath blowing really hard on him and

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he was just calmed out, asleep, you know, just out

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of it. And I asked the nurse and she said, yeah,

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he started having a breathing attack this morning. And I said, now,

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the respiratory crew had told me last night that it

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was some sort of allergic reaction to that die and

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they all agreed upon it.

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It was like four or five of them.

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And she said, you know, she just nodded, and she said, well,

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I am concerned because there's a lot of fluid coming

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in on his office heart. And she said, I've pulled

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two or three bags of fluid. And she said I've

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called the doctor. And she was a little young nurse

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and she seemed very kind and thoughtful, and I just thought, well,

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I guess they're aware of it. And when I talked

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to the doctor, I said, well, you know he had

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allergic reaction and she said yes, or the doctor just

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said nothing when I mentioned the allergic reaction, so I

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assumed he was aware and he was, you know, take

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you know.

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Taking that aware of it.

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But then the respiratory crew came in later that day

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and I asked about the little BiPAP and they said, oh,

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that's perfectly safe. They said that'll help rest his lungs

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and you know, it'll get some air in there and

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rest help his heart. So I was under the you know,

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the way they told me, and I found out a

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lot of people get told that that it's safe, but

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they had it up over ninety percent most of the time.

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They would take it off occasionally and put a nasal

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canular and I think it blew a little high too,

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but it stayed pretty much the bypath from then on,

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like the last five days. And Daddy also they pressured

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me and Daddy to both sign that do not reset,

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which I didn't really feel know a lot about it,

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And my dad was awake and alert when they came

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in on that, and they, you know, they told him

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that if he went into cardiac that his ribs would

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be cracked and it'd be real painful and he wouldn't

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have a good chance at his age to survive because

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he was seventy eight. And my dad said, I just

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go ahead and sign it. And you know, looking back,

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I didn't really know much about it. I wished we

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had not been so quick to sign that, because I

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don't know if that also played a part. Because this

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new young doctor that came over, my dad kept telling me,

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he said, your dad's old and he's really weak, and

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he kept asking me, now he's got that do not resuscitate, right,

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And I said, yeah, they explained that he didn't have

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a good chance if he had a cardiac and he said, yeah, yeah,

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but he would bring that up every time, and he

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started asking me, would I want to ventilator on my dad?

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And I said, well, no, my my.

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Dad didn't want to ventilator. And we heard that was

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very dangerous, and we heard rendezevir it was dangerous. So

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those were the two things I was mostly concerned with.

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And as far as I knew, I said, well, now

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the bypap is safe, is what we're told. That's good

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for him, and he, you know, kind of said.

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Yeah, yeah, you know. So I just assumed the bypath.

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But after he stayed on it for several days and

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day after day, I was thinking and just kind of

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sleeping more, and he just seemed more tired. But on

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the thirteenth they called me early the morning, the doctor

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called and said, we tested your dad positive for COVID nineteen.

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And so that was when I really got scared, because

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this was after the lockdown, and I just assumed, well,

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COVID wasn't really going on like it had been, and

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I thought it was safe. The hospitals were safer, but

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I started to think, are they up to something. Does

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he really have COVID? I mean, because he really didn't

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show any symptoms. He was just really tired. But he

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was still alert too. You could talk to him and

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he'd wake up that he was losing his speech a

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lot and didn't really talk as good. He would just

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nod and he'd call my name and.

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Just little things. But he was aware of everything.

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My husband was down there the last night or two

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and he was even telling us, he said, go get

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y'all something to eat, and he was concerned. He said,

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go on and eat and come back. But you know,

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he so he was pretty aware. And he asked about

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his cat. The last few things. He was asking if

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his cat was fed. He said, you got my cat fed?

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He couldn't think of her now, I said, Linda, and

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he said yeah. And we had bottom a recliner chair

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and he kept asking about that was the last few

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things he mentioned, getting his recliner back. So he was still,

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you know, pretty aware. And they were sending therapy to

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exercise with him, and he was still trying to do

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his therapy exercises even with COVID positive and all the

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masking and everything everybody wore, and he was getting on

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the side of his bed, like just doing a little bit.

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But he had such a will to, you know, come

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out of it. And I didn't even think that they

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would have did anything purposefully to worsen them. But after

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it was after he passed that I got his records

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later and saw that on the tenth of April through

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the sixteenth they had started this large protocol of opioids

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and laxatives, and not to mention that the day after

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the contrast died, they gave them a drug. I can't

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pronounce it, but it's a diabetes drug epa laxed garden guardian.

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It's I can't pronounce it, but it's it caught, not

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not for people in heart failure, not for contrast die,

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and not for anyone over sixty five. It's not recommending it.

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And it caused this breathing problems and fast heartbeat, weak

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weakness and confusion, and then several of the antibiotics Metro

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Metro does. I can't say that word dolls all. Yeah,

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Metro dollars that one breathing problems.

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And loss of a voice.

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And they gave them two big doses of it or

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three big doses on the twelfth through the fourteenth and

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the fifteenth two doses, and then another one called Maya

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dren I can't read that, but breathing problems that's and

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then this Dexa dexa my listen, yeah, not for heart failure.

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And then another one Vaikason that's supposed to be a

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really bad one, but that's kidney failure, irregular heartbeat.

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Bank of Maya and yeah, I.

468
00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:06.359
Think that's it Eliason, And there's several and then at Cetera,

469
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:10.880
the one with a c here ce f t ri

470
00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:12.880
i a xo.

471
00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:15.759
O separ tria zone.

472
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:19.279
Yeah, and that was through the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth,

473
00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:22.559
and that's breathing problems and diarrhea.

474
00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:27.480
Weakness and fatigue. So it was like, I'm.

475
00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:30.400
Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt. It sounds like they had

476
00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:35.400
him on a ton of antibiotics. And what I don't

477
00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:39.279
understand is why were they giving him so many opioids

478
00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:42.960
and laxatives. I don't understand the Lai.

479
00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:47.400
Yeah, he never complained about any pain, and they just

480
00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:51.960
started him on what they called a pain management thing.

481
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:54.759
And then on one of the records, I think on

482
00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:59.680
the fifteenth or fourteenth, the nurse stated that she came

483
00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:02.759
in there and he was hiding some of the opioid

484
00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:06.359
pills under his blankets, and she said that he said

485
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:09.400
he'd take them later, and it said she said she

486
00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:13.279
gave him a lecture about his pain management, and she

487
00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:16.559
said he did take it then after she lectured them,

488
00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:19.759
but he was I think he knew something wasn't helping

489
00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:22.440
him because he was actually, it said, trying to hide

490
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:26.720
the pills under And then they they were wanting to

491
00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:30.119
give them rendeesevir, and on his records it was ordered

492
00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:34.359
ten doses of rendesevir, but it said he for some

493
00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:38.000
reason was out of the window over rindeesevir. So they

494
00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:43.359
ordered this decadron and they gave them some large doses

495
00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:46.839
of that, and it says poor prognosis on the thirteenth.

496
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:50.480
But he was still like trying to exercise. He was

497
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:53.640
waking up and you know, verbal, a little bit verbal,

498
00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:56.960
but I mean he was really and we it just

499
00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:01.559
happened so quickly. Like I carry some guilt because I

500
00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:04.160
trusted them and I never thought they would be like

501
00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:07.359
giving him things he didn't need. But when I started

502
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:09.680
talking to other people in the group, they helped me

503
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:12.759
review the records and a lot of people said they

504
00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:16.759
got the opioids and the laxatives too, and we don't

505
00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:20.119
know what the laxatives were, but it was just meant

506
00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:23.319
to drain all his fluids off and weaken his body

507
00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:26.079
to where he just couldn't fight, you know.

508
00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:28.319
And I was concerned.

509
00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:30.799
Because I noticed he had no IVS and he was

510
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:34.079
getting no nutrition. And the nurse told me, well, he

511
00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:37.799
can't really swallow now he's getting weaker. And I mean,

512
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:42.880
he was on all those opioids and just everything contrasted

513
00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:45.559
each other. And they even threw in a high blood

514
00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:49.400
pressure peel for a few days called the pressure, and

515
00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:52.000
he had the low blood pressure, so we couldn't figure

516
00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:54.960
that out. And then they kept complaining that his blood

517
00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:58.240
pressure was low, but almost every peal they gave him

518
00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:01.839
caused low blood pressure. And I remember one of the

519
00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:05.000
nurses was saying, oh, she was showing me his monitor

520
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:07.440
and his heart was jumping way up and going way

521
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.559
down and she couldn't figure that out. She was like,

522
00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:13.240
what is going on? I'm going to call the doctor.

523
00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:17.440
And that was like just toward the very last few days,

524
00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:21.279
so it was very it was just very strange. And

525
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:26.359
then I'm trying to remember everything that there was some

526
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:30.279
big doses at taylanol rectal tylanol. We don't know why

527
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:35.400
they threw that in. And also a cancer drug was given.

528
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.559
I can't remember a drug for cancer.

529
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:42.400
And it caused low blood pressure.

530
00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:43.880
That was.

531
00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:52.160
Zopherin I believe a cancer That was an injection and

532
00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:54.039
all I could figure that just.

533
00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:56.519
Said it helped you to keep from vomiting.

534
00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:02.200
Okay, yeah, yeah, uh we used it in I'm an

535
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:06.119
oncology nurse. We used it for cancer patients, but we

536
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:10.680
used it in many patients for nausea. But that that

537
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:14.839
seems like they were throwing especially the bank of myace

538
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:18.319
and now that would be hard on his his kidneys,

539
00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.839
and it sounds like he's having had a lot of

540
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.680
difficulty obviously with his heart. His heart function was low,

541
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:30.839
you know, and then he had COVID on top of it.

542
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:34.799
They didn't give him room, guess a beer, so they

543
00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:37.920
just kept loading him up. And the fact that they're

544
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.920
loading him with tons of opioids is very concerning. But

545
00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:46.240
I know we see that in the COVID patient protocols

546
00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:51.440
across the nation. The relaxative makes absolutely no sense to

547
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:56.079
me at all. But I heard people say that, yeah.

548
00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:59.880
For for relax, it is two big packs of merle

549
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:03.559
ax a dokal axe a chronell lax.

550
00:32:03.799 --> 00:32:04.319
I believe.

551
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:08.000
And then the last, the only last few things he

552
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:10.319
ate was like a little bit of apple sauce and

553
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:13.640
a part of a banana. And he drank some Insure

554
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:16.920
drinks with me on the last day or two, and

555
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:19.799
he drank those pretty good. And it says in his

556
00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:23.160
records he was asking for water and he was asking

557
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:26.079
to go home, and he said his mouth was really dry.

558
00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:29.680
And I started asking if he could get a feeding

559
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:33.119
tube or some fluids, because I said, I've noticed he's

560
00:32:33.160 --> 00:32:34.440
not having any fluid.

561
00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:35.880
And I mean it was.

562
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:40.000
This all happened within days, and the nurse went and

563
00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:43.680
checked and they this toward the end was very strange.

564
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:46.319
They moved him to this heart place and it was

565
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:49.359
all in the back room, really dark and creepy, and

566
00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:52.960
we had to put our garb our covid garbs on

567
00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:55.640
to go in with them. But I was I didn't

568
00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:58.000
even care if he had COVID. I said, I love daddy.

569
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.319
I'm gonna sit right next to him and hold his hand.

570
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:05.759
And but he had lost Yeah, and his records he

571
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:11.640
lost thirty pounds within those you know, I guess last I.

572
00:33:11.559 --> 00:33:13.720
Guess within fourteen days of being there.

573
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.279
And they said, well, we can't give them any fluids

574
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:18.680
because of his heart, and that was their excuse.

575
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:20.119
And they said he couldn't.

576
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:23.759
Swallow his you know, swallow was so weak that he

577
00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:27.839
might ASPI eight. They were using different excuses, but they

578
00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:30.119
there at the end. It was just very there was

579
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:33.640
a very sinister feeling like there was just something really

580
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:36.440
dark there the last few days. And I could just

581
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:39.720
feel the evil in that little heart. And they kind

582
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:42.559
of isolated them in that room, and nobody was really

583
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.720
checking on them much. And I mean I would set

584
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:47.960
in with them all day and he was having I

585
00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:51.440
mean I hate to use that, but he was having diarrhea.

586
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:54.119
And I couldn't figure out why he kept getting that

587
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:58.440
watery diarrhea. And he knew because he would say, you know, Heidi,

588
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:01.519
and he'd point like to go and I'd have to

589
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.960
go get the nurses. And we couldn't figure that out.

590
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.160
And I thought, well, is he just that sick that

591
00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:11.639
his body's you know, eliminating? But I didn't, you know,

592
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.360
I didn't put it together. I just I totally there

593
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:19.119
at the end started. I did started to suspect things,

594
00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:20.679
but I just couldn't pinpoint it.

595
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:22.639
Something seemed often all that.

596
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:26.199
Doctor would ever say as he's old and he's weak,

597
00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:28.639
and he would never talk about solutions or.

598
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:32.960
Trying to help them. And that night, well.

599
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:35.800
Over the weekend, he I still had hope because my

600
00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:39.079
dad was so alert, you know, he'd wake up and talk.

601
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:42.360
And that doctor said, it's just a light case of COVID,

602
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:46.920
and so I thought, well, maybe it's nothing really serious.

603
00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:49.599
That and a few of the nurses and that, and

604
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.159
the therapy guy said, ah, he's still you know, lifted

605
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:54.840
up on the bed and did some exercises. He'll come

606
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:58.079
out of it. And uh so I was just praying

607
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.880
and praying, and that was all I felt like I

608
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:02.920
could do. I was like, I didn't know I could

609
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:05.199
call an advocate. I wished I would have known about

610
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:07.920
the former FEDS group and I would have got my

611
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:11.280
dad transferred or anything. I would have paid out of pocket.

612
00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:14.519
But I felt trapped. You know, you're just listening to

613
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.320
what they tell you and I'm not medically trained, and

614
00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:18.239
here I am.

615
00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:19.639
You know, I take a.

616
00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:22.800
Little vitamins, but I'm not like I'm going to sit

617
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.960
there and argue with the doctor. And he's educated, and

618
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:27.320
so he called me.

619
00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:28.639
It was April.

620
00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:32.159
Let's see, that would have been the sixteenth and the

621
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:34.679
day before my dad died. And it was a Sunday,

622
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:36.519
and he said, your dad's not going to make it

623
00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:40.039
through the night. Just come say you're goodbyes, and you

624
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:43.960
don't have to hurry. And yeah, I got up there.

625
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:46.559
It was only about seven miles and I said, well,

626
00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:47.679
I'm just going to stay.

627
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:48.599
The whole night, you know.

628
00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:51.079
And I couldn't believe it. I said, I can't believe this.

629
00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:53.840
I said, I don't know what to do. And my

630
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:56.880
husband came and stayed with me, and we slept with

631
00:35:56.960 --> 00:36:01.800
them all night, and they basically, I guess about twelve o'clock,

632
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:05.559
his heart just started fluttering more and he was getting

633
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:08.519
a fever and that was really the only sign of maybe,

634
00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:12.480
you know, COVID or his body was just starting to fail.

635
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:16.280
And the nurse came in and said, well, we wanted,

636
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:18.880
you know, the doctor suggest you do the comfort care

637
00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:20.039
and give a morphine.

638
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:21.639
She said, he'll just suffer.

639
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:26.320
And I was one girl said I could try some

640
00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:31.000
pressures in his neck and see if he would, you know,

641
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:33.400
get his blood pressure back up that she said, his

642
00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:36.360
blood blood pressures now and so low, and you know,

643
00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:38.480
he just doesn't have a good chance at all, and

644
00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:40.800
you don't want them to suffer and that kind of thing.

645
00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:44.079
So I called my husband and I you know, my

646
00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:46.480
mom had been sick at home, so there was really

647
00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:49.119
nobody out there but me, and it all fell on me.

648
00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:52.119
I have his older sister and she passed away years ago.

649
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.599
So I was alone and I was just praying, and

650
00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:57.800
I even asked one of the nurses, and even some

651
00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.320
of the nurses were horrible. I said, with you and

652
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:02.800
say a prayer, because one of the assistant nurses had

653
00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:05.440
prayed for me the day before and she wasn't there.

654
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.039
But that nurse said, well, when it's your time, it

655
00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:11.320
is your time, and kind of just you know, hateful,

656
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:13.519
and I just said, well, I'm just.

657
00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:14.280
Going to pray, you know.

658
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:15.960
So I went in there and I had my Bible

659
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:19.039
cards and I just kept praying, and my dad goes

660
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.360
amen that he would lift up and he'd smile, and

661
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.480
I said, Daddy, I'm gonna beat with you all night.

662
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:27.239
And I didn't want to tell my dad anything because

663
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:30.639
I was still holding out hope. But the nurse when

664
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:33.159
they did that, the so they kind of pushed me

665
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:36.159
into that comfort care. And I don't even know now

666
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.079
if that was the right thing, but I know his

667
00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:41.360
breathing when they took that BiPAP off, he just could not.

668
00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:43.719
It was like his lungs were filled up, which I

669
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:46.639
found out from the group that that happens to a

670
00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:50.440
lot of the same things where they maybe they're trying

671
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:53.119
to collapse your lungs. I don't know, but I don't

672
00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:56.280
know if his lungs were collapsing, but he was definitely like.

673
00:37:56.320 --> 00:38:00.920
I hadmonia, yeah, and he could had pneumonia, you know,

674
00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:06.360
you know, Heidi. The thing of it is is that

675
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:12.280
this sounds so familiar. The he had like a total

676
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:17.320
fluid restriction, no IVS, and it started like it sounds

677
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:19.239
like it's starting Out'm not trying to put words in

678
00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:22.639
your mouth, but it sounds like it started after COVID

679
00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:27.920
he got. He became what they say was COVID positive.

680
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.960
They were testing everybody in the hospital, so you know,

681
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:38.039
but they stopped all fluids after that, stopped all nutrition

682
00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:44.519
after that, they were giving him tons of narcotics. They

683
00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:49.239
were giving him laxatives, which doesn't make any sense. That

684
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:53.519
was dehydrating him. That's going to put more strain on

685
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:57.039
his heart. You know, the bank of Maya sin is

686
00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:02.159
hard on your kidneys. I don't know if they ever.

687
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:05.599
Yeah, also elay sis too, a little bit elay sis,

688
00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:05.960
you know.

689
00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:09.239
So they were just drying them out every which way.

690
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:14.639
I mean that just it's it's horrendous to me because

691
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.719
this is what we see happening across the nation. But

692
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:23.199
the fact that you were told repeatedly that your dad

693
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:27.360
was too old, which I'm sorry, seventy eight people is

694
00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:31.639
not old. They forced you into it, do not resuscitate.

695
00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:36.679
Then they continued to push narcotics on him, and you know,

696
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:42.639
diuretics and also laxatives. You know, it just it sounds

697
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:47.000
it sounds like what happened. And you tell me if

698
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:51.360
I'm wrong that the moment that he got diagnosed with COVID,

699
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:55.960
that the picture changed because he sounded like he was

700
00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:58.239
doing better. But the moment he got COVID, then he

701
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.760
stucked doing nutrition and every I.

702
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:06.559
Mean it actually started. The opioids and laxative started on

703
00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:09.360
the tenth and the April tenth, and then he was

704
00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:13.239
diagnosed with COVID on the thirteenth, So we don't know

705
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:16.599
if somehow this was all part of some plan, but

706
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:20.559
it was strange. And I saw on the fifteenth one

707
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.440
of the doctors I don't I don't remember meeting him,

708
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:27.039
but he said that they'd all talked about my John

709
00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:30.679
Fleming and this was they all agreed on the plan

710
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:33.480
and it was called the plan. So I had no

711
00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:37.000
idea if that was something they voted on or did

712
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:39.840
they just decide that this guy was just I mean,

713
00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:41.400
his heart was.

714
00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:44.679
You didn't know the plan? Yeah, I hold the plan.

715
00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:48.639
And if they just thought he was really I had

716
00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:52.000
saw a heart doctor on the twelfth that came in

717
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:54.800
and this is just a little minor detail, but he

718
00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:58.159
I had seen them before the other previous time, and

719
00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:00.719
he said, oh, you're back again, and I said, well,

720
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.559
I said he thought my dad was just declining with

721
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:07.320
his heart. And I said, well, I think really the

722
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:10.639
root of it is I'm not a heart specialist, but

723
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:13.840
I said, I think this catheter bag has you know,

724
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:17.679
aggravated on the infection is just you know, because I

725
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:20.199
said his heart was thirty percent, they could have looked

726
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:23.400
in his records and this doctor thought that my dad

727
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:25.800
had just had a stroke. He said, he's just had

728
00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:28.960
a stroke and I said, no, the stroke was thirty

729
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.559
years ago, when he was much younger. I said, he's

730
00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:35.639
been independent and fiery, I said, And he said, I

731
00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:40.400
think this is his new baseline now. But he spent

732
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:43.440
a long time scrolling the records, and I do wonder

733
00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:45.880
if he saw the opioids and lax it is. It

734
00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:48.320
was hard for me to think that he wouldn't have

735
00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:51.280
known or saw that because he was there on the

736
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:55.960
twelfth and in every page shed my dad was unvaccinated.

737
00:41:56.079 --> 00:41:58.239
I don't know if that had anything to do with it,

738
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:04.440
but unvaccinated bees, white male, elder male, you know, so

739
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:06.119
that was on all of his records.

740
00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:07.320
I know a lot of the people.

741
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.480
That's a commonality that a lot of people aren't vaccinated.

742
00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:13.559
So we don't I mean, what that played into it,

743
00:42:13.639 --> 00:42:14.760
I have no idea.

744
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.599
I had a couple of people ask if he was vaccinated,

745
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:21.039
and that was me, probably more than him, because I

746
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:24.400
got into the vitamins. And when the COVID thing started,

747
00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:29.039
we saw all these you know, doctor Peter McColough, we

748
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:33.920
saw we saw all the specialists come out and you know, tenpenny.

749
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.320
They were saying, hey, these are not regular vaccines. So

750
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.079
I talked my dad out of getting it. He was

751
00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:43.039
actually wanting to get the COVID and I showed him

752
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:45.840
some of the videos and he backed out of getting it.

753
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:49.639
But it's said in the hospital that he did refuse

754
00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:53.079
a flu vaccine and it said that's a problem. I

755
00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:55.440
don't know why, but while he was in there, but

756
00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:58.880
that was maybe earlier when he first came in, but

757
00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:02.519
he if he was improving, and it it states on

758
00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:03.920
there and they called.

759
00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:04.920
Me about him coming home.

760
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:07.519
On the tenth that I did get a call from

761
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:10.280
his caseworker and she said he should be coming home

762
00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:11.280
by Monday.

763
00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:13.159
We'll just keep them over the weekend.

764
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:15.119
And she said, you're.

765
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.000
Going to go back into your home therapy and I said, yeah, yeah,

766
00:43:18.039 --> 00:43:20.519
we want to do that. And I know this little

767
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.199
young kind of he was kind of, I don't know,

768
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:27.079
jerky like doctor. I didn't like his attitude from the beginning,

769
00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:31.000
but he made a comment, you know, should I He said,

770
00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:33.159
would you you know, want to just put your dad

771
00:43:33.159 --> 00:43:36.360
in a home And I said, no, no, my dad's

772
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:37.559
not a nursing home guy.

773
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:38.559
I said, he's tough.

774
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:41.320
He fights, and I said, I think, really, it's the

775
00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:42.480
catheter bag.

776
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:43.480
This is the problem.

777
00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:46.639
I said, we need to find this solution. And from

778
00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:48.960
what I understand, they're supposed to get in touch with

779
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:49.920
the urologist.

780
00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:51.639
So I don't know why.

781
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:54.679
I mean, I'm not trying to say I'm a specialist,

782
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:57.719
But to me, the doctors, with all their education, why

783
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:01.039
did they not root that that this was a lot

784
00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:04.519
of the problem with his heart and getting us back

785
00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:07.599
and forth in the hospital. But I said, no, I'm

786
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:09.800
not putting my dad in a home. He'll be miserable.

787
00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:12.599
And I said he's going to be happy there at

788
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.119
the house because he likes his TV and he's.

789
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:17.280
Got his cat and that he asked me.

790
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:19.079
It was like a little boy, said, am I going

791
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.559
home with y'all? And I said, yeah, Daddy, of course.

792
00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:25.480
I said, I've got your chair and you're going to

793
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:28.280
be back home. And I sang him a little song.

794
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:31.320
It just breaks my heart. But when I was a kid,

795
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:34.000
he used to sing that he loved me, and he said,

796
00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:36.440
I love you Heidie, and he sing the same song

797
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:39.599
to me and my sister. But he said, wherever Heidi goes,

798
00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:40.159
I go to.

799
00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:43.639
And I looked at him, and I said, I love Daddy.

800
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:46.480
Everywhere that Daddy goes, I go too.

801
00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:49.159
And he looked at me and he put his fist

802
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:51.480
up in the air and he said, you know, we're

803
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:55.639
fighting like Rocky, you know in the movie. And because

804
00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:58.599
I had been playing the Rocky theme at the house

805
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:00.679
when he got up and he did this little dance

806
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:04.639
at the bar. He was a character, but my husband,

807
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.800
he was rooting us on and that was our little

808
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:11.159
exercise at night. He would just hold the bar and

809
00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:14.400
do these little stands and I played the Rocky music

810
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:18.119
and I played some Beg's But yeah, he had a

811
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:21.800
fighting spirit, like he just would never give up. And

812
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:26.079
it's what a sad ending. I mean, just incredible life.

813
00:45:26.199 --> 00:45:28.440
I mean, I'm not as good as him, but he's

814
00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:32.360
inspired me to be a better person. And I'm definitely

815
00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:35.199
gonna That's why I had to tell this story because

816
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:38.480
it was just and I mean, I'm not gonna say

817
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:40.039
he would have lived ten more years.

818
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:41.360
I really don't know.

819
00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:44.199
With his heart, you know, in failure, but even if

820
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:46.880
he just had a year or two left, I just

821
00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:50.920
feel like he deserved better than you know, having them really,

822
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:54.119
it's like they just youuthanized him. I mean, in my opinion,

823
00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:57.079
they weren't doing anything to try to help them and

824
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:00.280
to find the solution of the catheter bag would have

825
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:03.679
been And I have a problem with the urology too,

826
00:46:03.800 --> 00:46:06.639
because we reached out to them so many times and

827
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:10.239
they're an affiliate of Piedmont, and I just feel like,

828
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:14.400
you know, they weren't really steadying his records, and maybe

829
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:16.599
they just felt like he just wasn't worth the time

830
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:20.119
he was older. But that night my dad passed and

831
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:23.440
I will say he didn't seem to be in any pain,

832
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:28.000
but it just did something didn't seem something seemed off.

833
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:30.840
And I sat with him all night, talked to him

834
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:33.440
and held his hand, and that was at least, you know,

835
00:46:33.480 --> 00:46:36.440
a blessing. You know, most people don't even a lot

836
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.559
of people didn't even get to be with their family.

837
00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:43.079
And it got about six fifty in the morning, my

838
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:46.000
husband saw his monitor drop and it was the room

839
00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:48.760
was so dark and creepy, and you could hear his

840
00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:49.800
heart just.

841
00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:53.800
You know, slowing down. And I sat there right with

842
00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:54.880
him and hugged him and.

843
00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:57.320
I said, I love you, daddy, And then the sun,

844
00:46:57.519 --> 00:47:00.360
just a sunbeam came straight through the window and hit

845
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:03.480
his face. I mean, you couldn't have timed it more perfectly.

846
00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:06.679
And you know how they say the light comes.

847
00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:09.760
For people, and it just was so bright, hitting right

848
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:12.519
on his face, and I was I looked and I thought, well,

849
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:13.440
there's the family.

850
00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:14.440
They've come to get them.

851
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:17.440
And I thought, you know, I don't want him to go,

852
00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:19.679
and if he has too, I'm glad I'm here. And

853
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.719
I grabbed him real hard. I said I love you,

854
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:24.719
and I said you just wait with Melissa.

855
00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:25.760
That's my sister.

856
00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:29.840
So that could do was the most incredible thing. And

857
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:33.159
even though it was it was bittersweet, I was glad

858
00:47:33.199 --> 00:47:35.440
that I could at least be I mean, I used

859
00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:38.000
to worry that, you know, he'd get killed in a

860
00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:41.360
car at because he loved to ride his car around

861
00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:44.199
everywhere and that, and I, you know, at least that

862
00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:46.559
I could be with him. And I said, you just

863
00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:50.000
wait for me. And but boy, he was fighting.

864
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:50.280
Till the end.

865
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:54.199
And that little cocky doctor came in. And it was

866
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:58.000
a little while after that, maybe maybe twenty minutes or so,

867
00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:00.960
and he had just come in and made his rounds

868
00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:04.679
and he said, oh, he really thought that, and he said,

869
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:07.880
you know, old people know when it's their time to go,

870
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:13.360
he said, and it just it just seems so cold,

871
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:15.599
you know. And he said he kept saying he wanted

872
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:18.480
to go home, and then my husband said, well, you know,

873
00:48:18.559 --> 00:48:20.880
he just wanted to go home to us, and you know,

874
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:23.440
he was he didn't want to die. I mean, my

875
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:26.599
dad was like he was never going to quit fighting,

876
00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:27.239
and he was.

877
00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:28.840
He liked his life.

878
00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:31.719
I mean he even if he had to use a

879
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:35.079
walker for a while or a cane, I mean, he

880
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:36.960
he was. I saw all he wanted to do is

881
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:40.519
go back out to those restaurants and hit Florida, hit

882
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:43.360
the Florida beach, you know, because he he had some

883
00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:46.400
little plans. I mean, even if you're not as active,

884
00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:47.880
you still enjoy life.

885
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:53.960
I mean absolutely. And Heidi, I am so I am

886
00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:58.440
so grateful for your story. I want everyone to know

887
00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:02.719
that we are scrolling the web site HVMP dot org

888
00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:07.039
that is the formal FEDS group Freedom Foundation. If you

889
00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:10.679
are someone like Heidi and you have a story, it

890
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:13.760
takes a lot of courage to be able to go

891
00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:17.320
through that and then to talk about it, but please,

892
00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:21.519
it's a safe area that you can get your testimony.

893
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:25.960
Those stories need to be heard. Heidi. We are grateful

894
00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:29.119
that you were with us today. We are thankful for

895
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:32.719
all that you do. Know that there are people out

896
00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:35.440
there like us in the state of Oklahoma, but there

897
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:39.199
are other people out there who are fighting for justice.

898
00:49:39.480 --> 00:49:43.840
They are active in looking for the ability to get

899
00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:49.079
the legislators to step in and open up investigations. Heidi,

900
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:53.000
I want to say, thank you, be blessed, be safe.

901
00:49:53.519 --> 00:49:56.719
We will have you back and let's talk some more.

902
00:49:56.840 --> 00:50:02.239
Okay, Okay, I really appreciate dot opportunity. And also to

903
00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:06.320
get anybody who feels that they've had a similar incidence

904
00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:09.159
is to go to the former FEDS group and you know,

905
00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:11.519
you get a lot of support. I mean, I'm so

906
00:50:11.639 --> 00:50:14.079
blessed I found I thought I was going crazy till

907
00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:17.599
I found these wonderful people and all the support groups

908
00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:19.519
and chat rooms and.

909
00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:22.920
I met you and all the great people there.

910
00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:26.920
And check out the twenty five commonalities, because you will

911
00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:29.679
see that we have so much in common. I have

912
00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:33.360
a little over half of them, and most people will

913
00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:37.599
have almost all of them. But even if it didn't

914
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:41.480
happen during COVID, like me and you thought the hospitals

915
00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:44.960
were safe, that they are still using these protocols and

916
00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:49.400
they're incentivized, which is shocking. I mean, I just I

917
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:50.519
still can't believe that.

918
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:54.960
You know, it's it's egregious, it's egregious.

919
00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:55.639
Heidi.

920
00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:59.360
Thank you so much for being on. I do need

921
00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:01.559
to jump and feed the cat.

922
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:06.960
Just I love your cats too. I'm a cat lady too.

923
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:11.480
I've got four cats now, my dad's cats.

924
00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:16.559
We're so we want to we are blessed to go ahead.

925
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:19.119
Oh bless that you gave me this opportunity.

926
00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:22.400
And I really enjoy your show, So keep fighting a

927
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:22.960
good fight.

928
00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:24.639
Like you said, stand up.

929
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:29.559
That's right, that's right, Heidi. Thank you so much. We

930
00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:32.119
are so blessed to be with you and to have

931
00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:35.679
you on today, and we are blessed by all of you,

932
00:51:36.039 --> 00:52:11.480
and have a great day.

933
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:19.920
It's time to stand up, speak out, get involved, and

934
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:21.880
let's beak intentional