Posted on 11/19/2014 9:23:27 PM PST by grundle
The Dallas nurse who flew to Ohio to plan her wedding in the days before she was diagnosed with Ebola and then said her engagement ring was destroyed when her apartment was decontaminated now has a new ring.
Amber Vinson and her fiancé, Derrick Markray, visited a Zales Jewelers jewelry store in Dallas Tuesday where they were able to pick out a new ring free of charge.
"When I found out that Zales had offered to give a ring, I was taken aback by the generosity because I've had so much negativity towards me," Vinson told ABC affiliate WFAA, which interviewed Vinson and her fiance exclusively.
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It's telling that when a dead body is found in an apartment in NYC and there is no foul play involved, we still have to have a cop present in the apartment to "safeguard" the deceased's property. Why would that be? The only ones in the apartment are the EMTs and firemen who initially respond.
Don't even get me started on the first-hand stories that came out of 9/11 with regards to firemen.
Something is very wrong with this story.
I don’t know of one girl who would leave her engagement ring at home when she was going with her bridesmaids to pick out wedding dresses. When girls get engaged that ring stays on her finger.
She wants us to believe she flew to her hometown to see her wedding party without her ring?
Maybe she was wearing it when she was later admitted to the hospital and it was stolen there. But she didn’t leave it home.
On a regular basis...maybe. For $1000 cash...no problem!!
You’re absolutely right. It stays on. Friends want proof...and need something to gossip about.....size, color...
When my dad suffered the heart episode that left him brain-dead, he was sitting at the kitchen table, writing out bills. One of the responding EMTs stole his checkbook.
My mother was in a state of shock, but thanks to that thieving SOB, I had to drag her to the bank to address the issue while her husband and my father was hooked up to life support.
That was uncalled for.
“Her freaking stupid selfish self” caught the disease while nursing a dying man in hellish conditions at Presbyterian Hospital.
I wish her the best.
No.
After she got back from her trip, she was showing symptoms and reported to the hospital. As a nurse, she knew that valuables are not safe in a hospital. She left her jewelry at her apartment for that reason. And the decontamination team, for whatever reason, took her ring as well as everything else in the apartment.
Seems like overkill to me.
Direct quote from the video:
“I took off all my jewelry, thinking that my jewelry would be safer at home than in the hospital,” Vinson told WFAA. “And when the decontamination team came in, everything that was on the surface was swiped into a bin for incineration. My jewelry box being on my nightstand was one of those things that got destroyed.”
Thank you for clarifying that. I didn’t watch the video. I’m on a slow wifi.
Like I said, no one talks about that aspect of EMTs/firemen. And it's the single biggest reason for the rivalry between cops and firemen. At least here in my city.
I understand that in this story most of her possessions were taken for incineration. I'd just be surprised if all of them were actually incinerated.
The cops probably aren’t there to “safeguard” anything. They are there for their cut.
Hahaha. Thanks for that. Needed it this morning.
Thank you, thefactor.
Thanks for the ping!
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