Help Evette through her mom's tragic passing

My name is Evette Pike & this is my mom Sonia Hernandez.

And I can't believe I'm writing this, or that this really happened. This is my new reality, my world has imploded.

She died & was taken from me by a negligent & arrogant doctor.

Florida is the only state in the country that has a

'Free Kill Law'.

Which means I can not sue him.

The lawyers I have spoken to call it getting away with murder. And it is.

All the money that came in was for taking care of her, I was her sole caregiver.

With her passing, all the money stopped & I am left destitute. No money for her final arrangements, bills, fighting to overturn this law, for still seeking anything legal I can accomplish while reporting him to the medical board. And for me to move on knowing my mom was killed by a system that just doesn't care about the elderly with dementia.

I do not want my mom to be considered abandoned or lose my home along with everything else.

I also have dogs that need immediate care, one just diagnosed with Lymphoma cancer, one with a large mass in his abdomen & one with a cherry eye gone bad.

I am so lost...I am in shock, in grief, guilt, disbelief, & anger. I can't believe that after weeks of arguing with her doctor about a medication she had recently been put on & was having a bad side affect, he didn't want to change it & didn't want to add another that would have helped. He even castigated me & told me not to talk to him or any physician for that matter as if I 'know' something, I should word it that I 'think or feel' something because 'he' is the doctor & is the one that 'knows'!

For over 4 weeks I spent many sleepless nights researching & studying drugs, getting names that would be better for her, speaking to 5 pharmacists & even had x-rays & bloodwork done. They showed infection & liquid in her lungs but her doctor didn't trust portable x-rays & that radiologists had to write something to get paid & said it was just inflammation. The day I took her to the hospital the nurse was here & said she heard crackles in her lungs. So I texted him should she be on an antibiotic, he texted back, no inflammation doesn't equal infection. The hospital put her on 2 antibiotics.

At no point during all this did anyone mention any need for hospital or that any of this could be fatal. Because if they had she would have gone much sooner.

I have so much guilt & regret that I didn't take her to the hospital sooner, she would still be here.

The hospital told me her primary had been misdiagnosing her & she was having a toxic side effect to the medication, she had a liter of fluid in each lung. She had been extremely swollen with fluid that the primary was saying was edema, but it wasn't, it was Anasarca. They were shocked when I told them everything & showed the emails & texts from the doctor. She ended up third spacing & her passing wasn't peaceful & very traumatic.

This whole thing has been very traumatic for me as well. I trusted that doctor. He apologized the day I took here to the hospital & said he really didn't think it was a reaction.

She came to live with me 16 years ago, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

That diagnosis changed her life & mine as well.

I dedicated my life to caring for her, she was my life, my world revolved around her. Eventually my work had fallen away & since Covid I had been with her virtually 24 hours a day, every day. I took really good care of her & she was happy. Everyone always commented how good she looked, she had no wrinkles or blemishes. I always made sure she was healthy & was told she would be around many more years. This has been a shock & I am so hurt!

I need help please.

My mom has died, the only person on this planet that really loved me. She was a really good mom, woman, human. I miss her terribly. I miss our life together.

I really don't know where to go from here, my goal is to report the doctor, to write all my state's representatives to abolish this cruel law. Seek counseling & figure out how to restart my life at over 50 without mom. I am not married & was an only child.

I literally have no income now & can not pay for anything, a far cry from where I was being able to pay all our expenses. I truly can not live with the county naming my mom as abandoned if I can't raise funds, I couldn't handle that, please help, no amount is too small & all adds up.

I want to thank you for your time reading my story.