Texas Woman Writes Viral Obit Naming President Trump for Husband's 'Needless' COVID-19 Death
David tested negative for the virus in June, but he began to feel sick in early July. He tested positive when he took another test, as did at least 16 other patients and staff members at the nursing home, Stacey says.
He was taken to Good Shepherd Medical Center in nearby Marshall, but "he just started going downhill.”
Stacey says doctors gave her husband remdesivir, plasma, steroids, placed him on a CPAP machine “on full blast” and eventually needed to put him on a respirator.
As nurses warned that David's condition was worsening, Stacey called his five kids. Three were able to make it in time to see him before his death.
A nurse cracked open the glass door to David's room open "about an inch" for Stacey to deliver a final message.
“I tried talking loudly, hoping he could hear me," she says. "I was crying and telling him to fight, that we needed him, that his dog Bobby misses him.”
In the wake of David's death, Stacey's grief quickly turned to anger and she wrote his obit after continuing to see people around Jefferson not wearing masks at stores.
She blasted the “ignorant, self centered and selfish people” who weren't taking precautions, and she pointed to lawmakers for not setting an example and enforcing health experts' guidelines on social distancing and wearing masks.
Specifically, she named Abbott and Trump.
"I wanted these people to know who was to blame for my husband’s death," Stacey says. "I was very angry about it.”
After the obituary gained traction online, Stacey reposted it on Facebook, drawing hundreds of comments from strangers on her page. Most offered condolences and support, but some pushed back.
“It really hurt my feelings, and it got me mad," she says. "How dare they say that my husband didn’t die?"
David was loving and very private, Stacey says. “He’d probably be a little embarrassed, but I also think he’d be proud of me for not letting this go.”
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