Ericka Berg
Dignity Health
1955 W. Frye Road
Chandler, Arizona 85224

Dear Ms. Berg,
Let me begin by saying, I am not surprised by your response to my original letter stating the hospital followed protocol in my wife’s care.  That is exactly the problem.  I should have been told upon her admittance she would not receive Ivermectin because the Hospital Board didn’t believe in it.  I should have been told she would not receive Regeneron as an admitted patient on oxygen.  Had I been given this information upon arrival, I never would have left her at Chandler Regional Hospital.  Covid protocols should be provided to all Covid patients and their families.

During my wife’s stay, I was never informed or asked about her care, nor was my adult son, Sean.  Sean was going to the hospital to check on her, given I was unable due to having Covid as well.  I feel that I dropped her off at the worst place I could.  Compounding this, I was not able to be there to fight for her care.  I’ll put it this way, your kitchen is on fire and you call the fire department.  They show up and only spray down your front yard.  The firefighters then turn around and say they were sorry we couldn’t save the house.  By not informing me of what the hospital would and wouldn’t do, my choice of taking her somewhere else was eliminated.  By not involving me in her day-to-day care I had no idea she never received Regeneron.  It is now clear to me why my own file states, “Patient requests Regeneron”.  If I hadn’t made the request, it wouldn’t have given it to me.  By not giving my wife Regeneron or Ivermectin or both, you allowed the virus to destroy her lungs.

I was standing next to my wife when Dr. Shikri came in and said, “I have been watching your numbers and they are getting worse.  If we don’t intubate you now and put you on a ventilator, you will die tonight.”  Chris and I looked at each other and said if that is what we have to do.  This was the first time I was given a choice in her care.  What a choice, don’t do it and die or do it and die.  So yes, Ms. Berg, you are correct; she wanted everything done to save her life.  Dr. Shikri stated everything would be done to save her.  Well that was a lie.  As a hospital, half the tools used to fight Covid had been eliminated.  It appears to me you have cart blanch to do whatever you want and not be sued.  The hospital still won’t use Ivermectin or Regeneron, which would have been a course of treatment I believe to be better than what was used.  I wonder how Dr. Shikri could look us in the eye knowing not everything was done that could have been done.  My wife died in room B-260, the minute she was intubated.  I will never forget the way she looked when she was wheeled out of that room.  There was no life in her eyes.  My wife never regained consciousness; in fact you had electrodes attached around her forehead trying to get a response from her.

Ms. Berg, you stated all the numbers from her health records, but like any computer, you change one or two variables, you get a different result.  If she would have been immediately put on Regeneron it could have changed everything.  I was day eight with Covid when Chandler Regional gave me, at my request, Regeneron.  Later, I received Hydroxychloroquine, Hydroxyl and an IV vitamin drip.  During my sickness, my oxygen actually dropped at times to 83% and 84% saturation and yet I made it.  I know as a group you don’t believe in Hydroxychloroquine or Hydroxyl.  If we take those drugs out of the equation by your standards, it must have been the Regeneron that helped me survive.

It took my wife 2 hours and 45 minutes to die with only 20% of her lungs fighting to keep her alive.  I believe that if that same amount of time were used to give her Regeneron the minute she checked in, it would have allowed her to recover.  In fact, if the Dignity ER at Baseline and Gilbert had recommended getting any treatment at all she might be here now.  I asked the doctor there to write a prescription for Ivermectin and the he refused.  There was no recommendation for Regeneron or anything else.  There was no compassion or concern.

I’m sick every day that I chose to take my wife to Chandler Regional Hospital.  It is truth I was not informed of my options.  Because I was sick I couldn’t be there to actually fight for her care.  I believe she never had a chance due to Dignity protocols that are not published for the general public to see.  If I hadn’t taken her there she might have received what I did at home. She would have had a better chance of surviving Covid.

In conclusion, your decision to take my wife into your hospital under false pretenses of care led to her slow death over twenty-seven days. The doctors’ decision to withhold Ivermectin or Regeneron caused her lungs to deteriorate the entire time she was in your care.

It grieves me to realize we had finally reached cruising altitude after thirty-five years of marriage.  Our boys were through college, everything was paid for and we could finally travel.  You blew our dreams right out of the sky.

The last eight pictures my wife took on her phone were pictures of her wasting away in your hospital, not pictures of herself with her grandson or family.