Timeline of Bill's Hospital Events:

7/17/2021 - First symptom (cough)

7/19/2021 - Tested positive

7/20/2021 - Started process to get monoclonal antibodies. PCP faxed request.

7/23/2021 - Went to SMH ER on advice from PCP. O2 Sats dropped to 90%. Walked in expecting to get a breathing treatment and leave. He was admitted. Remdesivir treatment started. (I was not allowed in hospital.)

7/23/2021 - Monoclonal antibodies approved but hospital would not administer stating they could only be given on an outpatient basis.

7/26/2021 - Bill was transferred to ICU on high flow oxygen (60 Liters). 

7/28/2021 - Bill’s labs were normal; chest x-ray showed improvement.

7/28/2021 - Bill Face Timed me at 3:30am stating nurse refusing to give him water and threatening to restrain him. I pleaded with nurse to give him water but she would not stating could not take his mask off.

7/29/2021 - I spoke to Bill on FaceTime briefly at 8:30ish. He was struggling to breathe and very thirsty. I received call approximately 10:30am from nurse practitioner stating they needed my consent to intubate. It was an emergency and doctor was standing by. 
If I would have said no, he would have died that day.

7/29/2021 - Bill’s WBC doubled and he became dehydrated according to labs. NO ONE EVER MENTIONED THIS TO ME.

8/9/202 - Nurse practitioner called me to ask me to come in to sign DNR. I was able to see Bill and pray over him. The medical team had obviously given up. They put me in a room with the chaplain, and two palliative care physicians to try to get me to sign DNR. I refused.

8/10/2021 - I went back to hospital to pray over Bill but security blocked me.

8/14/2021 - Nurse Practitioner called to say Bill was not going to make it and they wanted me to sign DNR. I went and prayed over him again.

8/16/2021 - I was called at approximately 11:00am and advised Bill was actively dying. I had to pull over on the side of I75 and watch my husband die on a FaceTime call. Medical records documented he was “actively dying” before 8:00am.  I was 20 minutes away. They called me too late.


According to review of the medical records, Bill became dehydrated on 7/29/2021. He lasted 18 days and it appears he died of a heart attack secondary to dehydration.