Jamie was a mom, step mom, sister and daughter. She was upbeat and would help anyone at anytime. She loved her 15 year old son and he was her life. After just receiving a promotion at her job, her and her fiancé Tim were about to buy their own home. She was a warm and loving woman.

In August of 2021, one of the kids caught Covid. Then Jamie and her fiancé Tim contracted Covid. Towards the end of August Tim called Jamie’s mom to say he was taking her to the hospital. Denise (Jamie’s mom) went to take care of the boys. Little did they know that would be the last time they would see her alive.

Jamie was in the local ER for a couple of days. Her O2 continued to drop due to lack of proper treatment. After they decided to admit her they transferred her to Baptist. It’s important to note that from the time she went into the ER she was not allowed to have visitors.

As in many of these stories there was a lack of basic care. One time Jamie called her mom and said, “I’m about to poop my pants”. She had been trying to get someone to help her for over an hour. Every time her sister, who was a nurse, or Denise would advocate for Jamie they were denied. So they wanted to move her to another hospital.

The only way to move her was to find a doctor and a hospital to accept her and then arrange the transfer. The family did find a doctor and hospital to take her. As with many of these stories, within hours of the family working out the transfer, Jamie took a nose dive with no explanation. Jamie’s family kept advocating for more effective and safe medications. Telling them over and over again to stop the Remdesivir because they were killing her. The doctors refused every request.

They were not giving her Jamie any nutrition and only sips of water. She was very thirsty and her mouth was so dry. Denise suggested they should give her ice chips but they would not allow that. The doctors and nurses consistently lied to the family. Telling them that Jamie knew and understood what the treatment plan was. But she did not know and when Denise called them out on it, they would say Jamie as too sick to know. Yet they would also say she was capable of making her own decisions.

One day, Jamie called her mom and said she was having an anxiety attack. As Denise was talking her thru the attack, a Doctor and a nurse entered the room. Jamie told her mom she had to go. That was the last conversation Denise had with her daughter. They called Denise later on and said that they “had to put her on a vent”. The doctor added that  she wanted to call her mom before she went on the vent but they did not allow it.

Once she went on the vent, the family wanted the phone line left open. The hospital would not allow that because they said Jamie had a roommate. Eventually they agreed to put it on mute so that Jamie could hear them but they could not hear what happened in the room. However the phone kept getting disconnected and they would have to call the nurses station to get them to reconnect.

Jamie’s sister Nicole is a nurse and was helping to advocate for her the entire time. Victor, who was the RN House Manager would not talk to Nicole anymore because she was calling him out on things that were wrong. Initially Nicole had given the hospital a DNR (Do not resuscitate) for Jamie, but then rescinded the DNR. The doctors were not happy about that can treated us more cruelly. Victor who was the RN House Manager would not talk to Nicole because she was calling him out on things that were wrong.

During the time Jamie was in the hospital her family held prayer vigils outside the hospital and continued to advocate for better care. Jamie’s family knows that Covid did not kill her. The rest of the family had Covid and got Ivermectin, HCQ and the monoclonal antibodies. They all recovered well because they were given the safe and effective treatments they asked the hospital to give Jamie. She should be here and have seen her son play football this year, gotten married and be living in her new home. Because of greed she is not here. Heaven is her new home.