she weighed more than 300 pounds. according to her husband, michael, the day she was released from the hospital, she told her doctor she didn t feel well enough to go home. he just looked at her and finally she just says i don t feel right. i don t think i should. i don t feel i m ready and he said, mrs. markham, you re going home. over the next two days she has excruciating abdominal pain and loss of bowel control. her husband says he called the doctor repeatedly to no avail. he said, mr. markham, i think your wife just wants to be sick. i said should i bring her to the e.r.? he says that s up to you but there s nothing we can do for her that you can t do there. ten minutes after hanging up the phone, michael markham decides to buck the doctor s advice and take his wife to an e.r. it s now around 5:00 p.m. sunday and what he doesn t know is that his wife is dying. i got her up. we walked out. made it about ten feet to the living room and she stopped.
doctors warned it could be risky. she weighed more than 300 pounds. according to her husband, michael, the day she was released from the hospital, she told her doctor she didn t feel well enough to go home. he just looked at her and finally she just says i don t feel right. i don t think i should. i don t feel i m ready and he said, mrs. markham, you re going home. over the next two days she has excruciating abdominal pain and loss of bowel control. her husband says he called the doctor repeatedly to no avail. he said, mr. markham, i think your wife just wants to be sick. i said should i bring her to the e.r.? he says that s up to you but there s nothing we can do for her that you can t do there. ten minutes after hanging up the phone, michael markham decides to buck the doctor s advice and take his wife to an e.r. it s now around 5:00 p.m. sunday and what he doesn t know is that his wife is dying. i got her up. we walked out. made it about ten feet to the
have any on this side. he s full of rigor. happens about 12 hours after death. he s also a young man, really good muscle structure. the more muscle you have the more rigor you ll have because it binds to the proteins in your muscles. once the bodies are photographed and bodily fluids drawn for toxicology testing, dr. spitz begins the external exams. a comprehensive analysis of the body from head to toe. he bounces back and forth between the two cases, beginning with jill moore. because of her initial symptom this week severe jaw pain at first everyone is wondering whether the dental work had anything to do with mrs. moore s sudden death. we have a mystery. we don t know what happened. the doctors were baffled. the husband was beside himself. nobody knew.
over the next two days she has excruciating abdominal pain and loss of bowel control. her husband says he called the doctor repeatedly to no avail. he said, mr. markham, i think your wife just wants to be sick. i said should i bring her to the e.r.? he says that s up to you but there s nothing we can do for her that you can t do there. ten minutes after hanging up the phone, michael markham decides to buck the doctor s advice and take his wife to an e.r. it s now around 5:00 p.m. sunday and what he doesn t know is that his wife is dying. i got her up. we walked out. made it about ten feet to the living room and she stopped. i looked at her and i says, can you make it, baby? and she goes, she shook her head, took her last breath and i felt her legs go down and i held her all the way down. he basically watches her death. and he s just beside himself. he has no idea how this death could occur. he is very upset and needs to
was she having abdominal pain? did she have a fever? and i told him, when he asked me about the pain i told him she had pain in her right side. what happened really close to the time that she passed? did she go lay down or did she collapse or what happened? was she kind of lethargic and really not doing well? you laid her down on the couch? he asked if i laid her on the couch and i said no i held her down on the floor like she was beginning to squat down is what it was. and i held on to her until she went down all the way. i laid her on the floor. okay. okay. well, i just wanted to call to get an understanding as to what happened from your point of view in the days and hours and minutes, you know, prior to her death. like many survivors michael markham is as angry as he is sad. he s hired an attorney and is moving forward with a lawsuit