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Remember, Mary's health deteriorated fast. It's not like she was hospitalized for weeks or months. We're talking less
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than 48 hours here, starting on Monday, July 20th. Now, Mary was at work that day. Everything was normal. She was
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seeing patients, happy, energetic, just like usual. But that afternoon, there was just this swift and noticeable
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change. A wave of nausea just hit her out of nowhere, then vomiting and abdominal pain. By the time she was
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finishing up with her last patient around 6:00, it was clear to everyone around her that something was wrong. And
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she told people that she had never felt so sick before. So, she went home, spent
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the night in and out of the bathroom, and by Tuesday morning, this is the 21st, she was even worse. So, around
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9:00 a.m., Bill drove her to the hospital. She spent the day there while doctors
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ran blood work and scans trying to figure out what was going on. And the medical attention seemed to help. Mary
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was feeling a little bit better. Now, doctors still decided to keep her there overnight for observation, but there
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didn't seem to be any like, you know, real alarm. So, Bill assumed that she just had this nasty stomach bug, which
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is maybe why he did something a few [music] of Mary's sisters found off. He went home that night to rest,
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which whatever, Mary wanted to sleep, too. But before going to bed, Bill says that he put his phone in another room to
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charge. So, he didn't wake up as the hospital called him again and again [music] and again. Because around 10:00
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p.m., this is about an hour after Bill left, not even that long, Mary's condition took this sharp turn for the
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worse. First, she fell down while trying to use the bathroom. Then she was moved
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to the ICU. And in the early morning hours of Wednesday, the [music] 22nd, she just kept spiraling. Her heart
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stopped at 4:17, then again less than 20 minutes later. And when staff still weren't able to reach Bill by then, they
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actually sent state troopers to his door to wake him up.