Man Dies In Out-Of-State Hospital After Multi-State Cardiac ICU Search

[Music] the town of coleman is in north alabama right between birmingham and huntsville the local paper there is the coleman times and a few days ago the story that led their print edition was an obituary antiques and auctioneering businessman ray demonia remembered for community service it's their lead story and there was a reason it was at the top of the paper mr demonia was clearly a beloved local figure for decades he'd been dealing antiques and hosting auctions in coleman alabama many of them for charity the paper printed this great old photo of him hosting an auction in his younger days and included an excerpt from a profile the coleman times had done about him a decade ago it said quote his showmanship makes for a fun day watching him encourage cajole and entice his audience as a thing of beauty he knows his customers he plays to them he elicits moans and bursts of laughter at his antics ray demonia lived his whole life in coleman alabama but he did not die there he had a cardiac emergency that he suffered in coleman on august 23rd but he ended up dying nine days later and 200 miles away from home in a hospital across state lines in mississippi and here's why here's why mr demonia's warm loving sweet obituary in his hometown paper is not just a local story about this loss for his family and for coleman who will no longer get to enjoy his his auctioneering antics because when mr demonia's family published their own obituary of him they included included this at the end quote in honor of ray please get vaccinated if you have not in an effort to free up resources for non-coveted related emergencies due to covet 19 coleman regional medical center emergency staff contacted 43 hospitals in three states in search of a cardiac icu bed and finally located one in meridian mississippi he would not want any other family to go through what his did i mean for everyone who says that getting a vaccine is a personal choice that doesn't affect anyone else line that up with ray demonia's obituary and what his family has just said about his death right i mean your decision about your vaccine may feel personal to you i get it but you live in a society you live in a country and your decision about your vaccine is ultimately the decision that fills up hospital beds that makes all the difference to your society your community your country makes all the difference as to whether a man like ray demonia gets that icu bed or not other people's decisions about their vaccine made the decision for him as to whether or not he could get the critical care he needed his daughter tells the coleman tribune quote dad was a team player always he was vaccinated for his own health and everyone else's health he did everything he was supposed to do [Music] you

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Length: 3min 23sec (203 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 13 2021

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I'm more and more of the opinion that some hospitals need to be designated covid free zones. That family could have had another decade with their loved one.