My husband began exhibiting respiratory symptoms on 11/17/21. He first sought treatment from an MD who was a friend of the family on 11/19/21 and diagnosed with Covid. He was given ivermectin along with prednisone and advised to take zinc, vitamin D three, vitamin C, aspirin and alternating Tylenol and Motrin. Approximately one week later his respiratory status declined and he was diagnosed with Covid pneumonia. Same family friend prescribed antibiotics and nebulizer treatments at that time.

On 11/29/21 at approximately 10 PM his respiratory status declined with oxygen saturation in the 70s. Without home oxygen my husband had to be taken to the hospital. I naïvely assumed since we were only asking for oxygen that he would just receive oxygen and I would be updated on his status  the next day. I was diagnosed with Covid also at this time and was not able to go to the hospital. However the hospital policy was no visitors anyway, so I wouldn’t have been allowed. My husband was fully coherent and able to text me for the first 7 to 8 days of his admission.

I was not able to get a doctor on the phone until his third day of admission. Since he was admitted late at night, I went to bed and we began texting the next day. He was very short of breath and did most of his communication via text instead of phone calls due to increased coughing and shortness of breath with talking. One of the first things he told me was at the doctors told him he was going to get monoclonal antibodies. What we did not know is that with an hours of his ER visit and admission he was already given his first dose of Remdesivir and was on a course for five days of Remdesivir.

It wasn’t until his third dose of Remdesivir  that he was aware  that he was getting it. He also received a dose of tocilizumab during that time that we were not aware of. No one was aware of this until receiving his medical records months after his death. He did NOT receive monoclonal antibodies. My husband was doing well on oxygen his first full day in the hospital and was told he could possibly go home 2 to 3 days later. Of course he had already been given Remdesivir which was the beginning of the end.

The consulting doctor repeatedly stated in my husband‘s medical records that he was not a candidate for tocilizumab but was given it anyway. So on the day he received that, there is a note suddenly with a change of heart stating that he approved the use of that drug. And then every day after, the notes resume that he did not recommend it as my husband was not a candidate for it. My husband repeatedly asked for soft foods from the beginning of his admission due to an extremely sore throat from coughing and was unable to eat regular food.

Every day in his text he would tell me he couldn’t eat what they would bring him because they would not bring him soft food. In the beginning there were drinks on his bedside table and on the ninth day when I was finally able to visit, there were fluids on the table that he was unable to reach. I know he stated at least once that he knew he was dehydrated but he could not get any more fluid. There were times when he said no one was around for hours and once he became so weak he could not easily reposition himself in the bed, he developed a sacral bedsore. I now know that the reason I was allowed to finally see my husband was because the doctors knew that he was on very limited time.

When I saw him the first time, I attempted with the physical therapist and the nurse to get him out of bed and by that time he was completely unable to sit up in a chair. The next day he was moved to a higher level of care and was slightly sedated. He was able to shake his head and show me a thumbs up/thumbs down but otherwise was not able to communicate. The third day I saw him was his birthday and he had been placed on the ventilator the night before. I was able to spend a little over two hours with him and as I was massaging his feet and legs and asking about positioning him for comfort and pressure relief, the nurse mentioned a bedsore.

I made her turn him over and remove the bandage so I could see how bad it was. I was shocked that a man who had been perfectly mobile 12 days before had a large sacral wound requiring medical attention. Sometime between his 11th and 12th day they finally placed A feeding tube after a weight loss of at least 30 pounds. My husband died on his 13th day there, shortly after finally receiving a feeding tube.

The morning after his birthday on 12/12/21 I was supposed to be at the hospital at 12:00 PM for a two hour visit, however they called me at approximately 9 AM to tell me he was coding and I needed to get to the hospital right away. They did CPR on him until I got there and the doctor informed me as I walked in the door that they had gotten him back twice but that he would code again and they would not revive him. And that is exactly what happened.

My husband had no heart issues, kidney issues, liver issues, lung issues nor was he diabetic prior to admission. The hospital lists Covid as primary cause of death followed by kidney failure. Kidney failure 100% brought on by Remdesivir use. The doctor stated there was no reason for an autopsy as they knew Covid was the cause of death. I didn’t know about Remdesivir and its side effects at the time, but I’m hoping if we ever get these cases to trial, we will be able to show that the damage done was from Remdesivir. On my husbands medical records there is a question of informed consent for tocilizumab. Which does state that he was not informed of its use. But there is no section for informed consent next to the Remdesivir administration.