'He was plucked out of my life and it feels like it could’ve been prevented,' Ashley Cooper says of her father, Phillip Cooper
, she was told by hospital staff he was in stable condition and would be ready to return home., is now left wondering what she’s going to do without the man whom she called her “best friend.”You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
At the time, the retired physical education teacher assumed that he had the flu, but his family grew concerned when he wasn’t feeling any better by mid-February. On his way to the hospital that day, Ashley says her uncle, who was driving the car, noticed Phillip was “so weak he could barely walk” and that his condition “scared him so bad that he was running through red lights to get [Phillip] to the hospital.”
“The thing that hurts the most is how he died,” she explains. “I think about people in these hospitals, they’re not with their families, they’re not around their loved ones. It’s scary. It’s a horrible way to die… and I was not prepared for this.”have prevented Ashley from grieving with her family and holding a funeral service for her father, whom she has since had cremated.
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