Jennifer Daly describes son Kevin's stroke and ambulance no-show
Jennifer Daly testifies remotely that her son Kevin arrived at St. Francis Prep feeling faint and weak, and the school nurse called 911 as his symptoms worsened. She says after multiple 911 calls and no ambulance, her husband advised their daughter to give Kevin aspirin, and she drove him to New York Presbyterian in Queens where he was diagnosed with a stroke.
Oh, okay.
So, well, first I'd like to say thank you for having this hearing.
It means a lot to me.
So on September 28th, my son arrived at school around 8.15, and he was feeling fine.
He arrived at school, and once he went into the building, he said he was feeling a little faint, a little weak, and his eye was blurry a little bit.
So he immediately went over right to the nurse's office, and he told her.
She sat him down, and she gave him water, and she gave me a phone call.
That phone call was about 8.17, and I instantly said, I'll be right there.
So I left Howard Beach and drove over to St.
Francis Prep in Fresh Meadows.
And unfortunately, it was taking me a little longer than it normally does due to the morning commute traffic.
And in the interim of getting there, I had received another phone call from her.
And she stated to me that she thinks that she needs to call the ambulance.
So I said, please do whatever you have to do.
If the ambulance gets there before I do, you know, just tell me where you are.
I will meet you there right away.
And then I...
Was driving.
Unfortunately, the traffic was building up a little bit longer.
And the nurse had called me again and said that she called the ambulance and she had
two sisters down there in the nurse's office with him.
And his face looked, you know, a little, a little strange.
Like his eye was like, you know, not drooping, but his eye was slanting down a little bit and looked a little weird.
So she was going to make another phone call.
So she made another phone call to the 911.
My daughters went there and one of my daughters, they're both, actually one of my daughters is taking health and safety class, CPR training, first aid.
And she looked at her brother and said, he looks like he's having a stroke because they are learning that in school.
She immediately called my husband, who is a retired fireman as well, and he was at work.
And she told him Kevin's symptoms.
And my husband said, well, give him aspirin.
Luckily, I'm an erotic and my kids have, you know, aspirin and Tylenol and Motrin on them in case they need it.
And she gave him the aspirin right there.
In the midst of that phone call with my daughter, with my husband, I get another phone call from the nurse that she called the ambulance twice.
And that he does need to go.
So I said, okay, I'm there.
I will be there any second.
So when I arrived, he was there.
I saw him and he definitely 100% was having signs of a stroke.
You can tell it like, or almost immediately.
He was slurring his words.
His speech wasn't clear.
He didn't really know what he was speaking about.
He was mumbling his words.
And I'm
I called his cardiologist and I said, we have to get him over to, you know, the hospital.
What do I do?
She said, wait for the ambulance.
I said, I cannot wait for the ambulance.
This is the going to be the third time that prep made the phone call.
And my husband made a phone call to them as well.
And she said, okay, take him.
She called over to New York Presbyterian in Queens, and I rushed him over there with my twins from St.
Francis Prep.
I think I got left prep at like 9.30 something, 9.32, and I got to Presbyterian at...
9.52, and my husband arrived as well.
When we got there, he ran him in.
They were great.
They took him right away.
They gave him all kinds of tests, EKG, ultrasound, CAT scan, MRI, and he had a stroke.
Then they transferred him over to the hospital, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital on 165th Street in Manhattan.
And then he stayed there for several days until he was released.
That's basically it.
That's my story.