A 37-year-old woman who tragically died after waiting for an ambulance for 7 long hours told her husband that she was ‘dying’.
Allison Holthoff was taken to the hospital on December 31 after suffering an upset stomach.
When she finally arrived at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Center in Nova Scotia, her husband Gunter had to carry her on his back into the ER before a wheelchair was provided.
But what happened next was a wait that lasted longer than six hours and Allison’s agonizing pain only worsened.
By the time she was seen by a doctor, it was already too late to save her.
According to reports, the couple arrived at 11 am and Allison was told by nurses that they needed a urine sample.
Gunter assisted her into the restroom but when she fell to the floor, two security guards arrived and helped out.
When they returned to the waiting room, Allison could no longer sit up because of the unbearable pain.
In an interview with CBC; Gunter said: “I told the nurses and the lady at the desk there a couple of times, ‘It is getting worse,’ and nothing happened.
“So the security guards, in time, they brought a couple of blankets out and they brought us a cup of water and I used it to put some ice on her lips.”
Allison’s condition worsened and she told her husband that she didn’t want to die there.
“I think that she actually started saying that she thought she was dying in the waiting room outside,” Gunter went on.
“She kept saying it more and more. She said, ‘I think I’m dying. Don’t let me die here.’”
It was already 6 pm when Allison was finally moved into a room with a bed. A doctor went to see her with pain medication and to prepare her for an x-ray.
But soon Allison experienced difficulty breathing and her eyes started to roll back into her head. Gunter was told to wait outside as medical staff rushed to the room.
A doctor then came out to tell him that they had resuscitated his wife three times but she had died.
“Even if she would have survived at that point … she had too long a time without sufficient blood flow to the brain and vital organs. It would have been not a life worth living,” Gunter said.
The grieving husband also told Global News that their children did not even get a chance to say goodbye to their mom.
“Unfortunately, I feel like we were neglected until it was to a point they couldn’t ignore us anymore. At that point, it was just too late,” he said.
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