Woman widowed on Thanksgiving after husband catches fire while getting care at Tennessee hospital

The household of a Tennessee man is grieving after he caught on fireplace whereas receiving care at a Nashville hospital, sustaining accidents that might finally kill him on Thanksgiving Day.  

Bobby Ray Stark had been affected by illnesses akin to mattress sores and a foot an infection and had been bedridden for the final seven years, in accordance with a FOX 8 report.  

His spouse Kathy, with whom he had been married for 35 years, stayed at his bedside all through his well being struggles.  

Bobby Ray was admitted to an area hospital earlier than he was finally taken to TriStar Centennial Medical Middle. Throughout his keep, Bobby Ray’s blood strain dropped considerably and well being care workers introduced in a crash cart to revive him, in accordance with a GoFundMe account arrange by Joyce Feakes, Bobby Ray’s daughter.  

“Then they began the [defibrillator] paddles, and it simply blew up, the whole lot,” Kathy advised WKRN. “I noticed that and I simply burst out.”  

Flames erupted over Bobby Ray’s physique, Kathy mentioned.  

“He bought burned within the throat, the face, the top, the chest and his arms. And he bought burnt actually unhealthy, he was on fireplace, and I mentioned, ‘he’s on fireplace, put him out,’” she advised WKRN. 

Bobby Ray was instantly transferred to TriStar Skyline Medical Middle’s burn unit the place he died on Thanksgiving Day. 

“They even made the remark to her, she’s repeated it to me many instances of this has by no means occurred earlier than,” Feakes advised WKRN. “They should guarantee that that doesn’t occur to any individual else, so any individual else doesn’t lose their husband, their greatest pal, their dad. And even worse, we misplaced him on Thanksgiving.” 

TriStar Centennial Medical Middle advised FOX TV Stations that well being officers are investigating the incident. 

“We prolong our deepest sympathies to this household for the lack of their cherished one. Whereas we can’t talk about specifics, we’re reviewing the care offered to the affected person and the performance of apparatus. The dying of a cherished one is all the time very troublesome, and our hearts exit to this household,” a hospital spokesperson mentioned in an emailed assertion. 

Kathy was Bobby Ray’s caretaker over the previous seven years and relied on her husband’s Social Safety for his or her revenue, in accordance with the household’s GoFundMe account. 

“Any assist can be tremendously appreciated whereas she is pressured to make adjustments that weren’t even a thought or concern beforehand,” the GoFundMe account learn. 

This story was reported out of Los Angeles.