Hi everyone!
Location: Indianapolis
I am from Indianapolis and we went on vacation to Maryland at the very beginning of July. My dad ended up having a stroke while we were there and was given brain surgery but was awake after the surgery.
The next day they said his brain swelled too much but they decided to take a flap of his skull anyway to see if that did anything, he ended up being brain dead in Maryland after never waking from that second surgery.
After brain death they moved him to Virginia for the donor walk and get him prepped to go back to Indy (since it’s closer to us) well they did a scan of his organs super late and found lung cancer which means all of this time he never was able to be a donor after we bought a hotel and stayed in Virginia for that specific reason.
We ended up pulling the plug on him in Virginia and he took his last breath there. We ended up going back home to Indy to figure out how to get him home. I called both hospitals and neither of them are claiming to be the ones that he died with. They are also saying he is property of the donor company but they aren’t claiming him either since he wasn’t an actual donor.
Now the funeral home is in charge of figuring out if they can get any info from the hospitals but I’m nervous that they’re not going to help the same way they didn’t help us try to get a proof of death for funeral assistance.
Any way to find out who he actually died with and how to make that hospital cooperate with us?