Posted on 08/25/2020 12:40:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 20-year-old woman believed to have died was found breathing at a Detroit funeral home.
20-year-old woman believed to have died was found breathing at a Detroit funeral home.
"They were about to embalm her which is most frightening had she not had her eyes open. They would have begun draining her blood to be very, very frank about it," Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who has been hired by Timesha Beauchamp's family.
We spoke with Timesha's mother, who said she is a beautiful and caring 20-year-old young lady, who has a twin brother.
On Sunday morning, Southfield Fire Department paramedics responded to a home for an unresponsive woman. When they arrived, the fire chief said Beauchamp wasn't breathing; after standard efforts to revive her, first responders determined after about 30 minutes that she was deceased.
“Because there was no indication of foul play, as per standard operating procedure, the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office was contacted and given the medical data. The patient was again determined to have expired and the body was released directly to the family to make arrangements with a funeral home of their choosing,” the chief said in a statement.
Hours later, staff at the James H. Cole funeral home realized Beauchamp was still breathing.
"It’s one of people's worst nightmares to imagine having an ambulance called and instead, sending you off to a funeral home in a body bag. The funeral home unzipping the body bag, literally, that’s what happened to Timesha, and seeing her alive with her eyes open," said Fieger.
It is still unclear what led up to the call for the unresponsive woman. Fieger said Beauchamp's Godmother, a registered nurse, was there and told EMS she felt a pulse.
Fieger says the 1.5-hour delay Beauchamp encountered by going to the funeral home instead of going to the hospital may be critical to her recovery.
"What did this delay do in terms of Timesha’s health for the rest of her life," he said.
Timesha is in critical condition at Sinai Grace Hospital and is on a ventilator.
“A local emergency department physician pronounced the patient deceased based upon medical information provided by the Southfield Fire Department at the scene. After which, the Southfield Police Department contacted the Oakland County Medical Examiner’s Office to notify them of the findings and the on-duty forensic pathologist released the body to the family. The Southfield Fire and Police Departments followed all appropriate city, county and state protocols and procedures in this case. The City of Southfield is currently conducting a thorough internal investigation in addition to the Oakland County Medical Control Authority (OCMCA) which will be reporting their findings to the State of Michigan Bureau of EMS, Trauma and Preparedness (BETP). In an effort to provide as much transparency as possible, more information will be provided as it is available.”
A spokesman for the Oakland County Medical Examiner‘s office said they did not go to pick up the body for an autopsy based on information provided to them by Southfield Police about the woman’s medical history and that no foul play was suspected.
This thread is in contention for having the worst title ever.
Just because they found her attorney alive?
> At lease they didn’t bury her without embalming; that is really scary!
They don’t embalm you, at least here in Arizona, for cremation.
Now that's really scary!
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I detect a new Bounty for Insurance companies and Lawyers ...
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Doctor did not personally see the woman. He signed off on her being dead based on what the first responders told him. He is in trouble.
Going to take another run for governor?
If they worked on her a half hour they had the EKG hooked up and she was probably flattened with an occasional artifact.
Granted I don’t know what condition she is in now - maybe brain dead. But half an hour without adequate blood pumping? Obviously something(s) went dreadfully wrong here.
Nuts. This country is going to run out of competent people in a generation or two. Nobody to run the power plants. Nobody to ensure clean water supply. Nobody to fix people.
not really. One of the most riveting er stories I heard was of gal who came in with a quivering heart they were repeatedly trying to jolt into a regular rhythm without much success. Meanwhile they were having difficulty starting a line. Finally got in and pulled back some blackish ropey substance. It suddenly dawned on the team that they were pulling back old clotted blood.
They realized that the gal had been dead quite a while but she had so much crack in her that her heart cells were continously being excited and polarizing c. Bodies do weird things. Open eyes don’t necessarily mean seeing or even alive.
Well at least they tried to save her. It’s sort of the opposite. No real harm in trying to revive a dead person. Just wasted time and tools. Lots of harm pronouncing someone dead without confirming it. Pulse could be too weak, stethoscope prone to human error etc.
Not sure if the EMT had her on an EKG or not. Seems fairly standard, or at least a blood pressure monitor... but I don’t know how they do things in Detroit :-)
I think the funeral home should get a cut of the action when she sues the EMS (yeah, good luck with that).
No pictures seem to be in the thread, but my bet would be that "Timesha" weighs at least twice what I do.
And we’ll be feeding the plants Gatorade and only using water in toilets.
Not unless you are very tiny.
The lady has CP. Not sure if that has anything to do with their not being able to tell that she was alive or not.
Oh i agree with you. Just relating a story that sometimes even with the best of circumstances things are overlooked.
What if she had been sent for cremation instead of embalming and burial?
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