Ambulance on Scene and Death from a “Hard Hit to the Heart”¶
Day 2 · 5:53:18 · James Freeland · Marylou Lavalle · Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison
- 🚑 James and his son race over; the ambulance sits at the house working on Ma for ~20 minutes, then leaves the long way through construction—signs a 17-year rescuer reads as grim.
- 💔 At hospital a doctor says she has passed from a “hard hit to the heart,” insists it was not a heart attack, and cannot explain the phrase.
- ❓ James repeatedly asks what that means and receives only the same non-diagnosis as the testimony window ends.
Final hours, coded language at the hospital, and an unanswered cause-of-death question.
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Transcript¶
James Freeland · 5:53:18
Uh, Jamie, you got to come to the hospital. You got to go to the hospital right now. The ambulance is here. They're bringing your mom to the hospital. And then I was racing. Me and my son were racing to the hospital. I get a phone call.
Marylou Lavalle · 5:53:30
They—.
James Freeland · 5:53:30
My, uh, Jim tells me, don't go to the hospital, come to the house. They're working on your mom in the ambulance. I get to the house, and for about 20 minutes, they're working on my mom in the ambulance. And then we get to the—.
Shawn Buckley · 5:53:42
I just— I just want to slow you down here. So you drive to your mother's house?
James Freeland · 5:53:46
My son actually drove.
James Freeland · 5:53:47
I was too—.
James Freeland · 5:53:48
I was too hysteric.
Shawn Buckley · 5:53:50
Okay. And the ambulance is there?
James Freeland · 5:53:53
My— yeah, the ambulance is working on my mom in the back.
Shawn Buckley · 5:53:56
And it's just sitting there.
Dean Allison · 5:53:58
Yep.
Shawn Buckley · 5:53:59
You're a health and safety guy.
James Freeland · 5:54:00
Yep.
Shawn Buckley · 5:54:01
You know what that means.
James Freeland · 5:54:02
I do know what that means.
Shawn Buckley · 5:54:04
What's going through your mind?
James Freeland · 5:54:06
I'm on the head. I know exactly what that means. I'm a health— I'm not only just a health and safety guy, I was a rescuer for 17 years, so I know exactly what that means, right? And when that ambulance left, they left through construction. They didn't come This is the shortest way. We went through the shortest way. They left through construction. I know, also know what that means, right? So I knew right then and there, okay? And the other thing is, when I got to the hospital and the doctor came and told me that she had passed I asked what she had passed from.
Shawn Buckley · 5:54:52
He said a hard hit to the heart.
James Freeland · 5:54:55
I said, what does that mean? Did she have a heart attack? No, sir, she didn't have a heart attack. What did—.
Speaker L · 5:55:02
What did she have?
James Freeland · 5:55:04
Hard hit to the heart. What does that mean? I don't know, son, it's a hard hit to the heart. Was that a—.
Speaker L · 5:55:12
What is that?
Shawn Buckley · 5:55:12
What, what the—.