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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

She Peaked Through The Body Bag!

Michigan family angry that Timesha Beauchamp was found alive in funeral home.
Timesha Beauchamp's family is angry. They are really angry over the fact that the state of Michigan failed her.

The 20-year old woman who has cerebral palsy was mistakenly declared dead after suffering a seizure at her home in Detroit. The paramedics spent 30 minutes trying to perform CPR on the woman before they declared she was dead.

The medical examiner's office released the body directly to the family, who arranged a funeral home to pick up her body that afternoon.

As the funeral director was preparing to embalm the body, she was shocked to see the woman breathing and looking at him.

He immediately contacted the family and told them that Timesha was alive.

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger held a presser on Tuesday afternoon telling the junk food media that Timesha remains in critical condition at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit. Its been more than 48 hours since she woke up inside that funeral home.

"The doctors are unable to give a prognosis right now, and have indicated that it's touch and go," said Fieger on the current state of Timesha.

"I'm devastated that my daughter is going through what she's going through," said Timesha's mother to the local junk food media. "My family, her twin brother, her older brother -- it's just, I don't even have words. I haven't slept all night. I just don't know what to do. My heart is so heavy."

Tinesha lives in Southfield is now on a ventilator at a Detroit hospital,clinging to life.
Detroit funeral home alerts family that Timesha was alive.
Her family called 9-1-1 after finding Tinesha -- who suffered from unspecified medical issues -- unresponsive at her home. Southfield Fire Department paramedics performed CPR on her, before she was declared dead.

"They told her the movements were involuntary, that they were related to the drugs that they had administered to Timesha and it did not change their opinion as to the fact that they felt she was dead," said Fieger, who once represented the controversial Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian against murder charges tied to physician-assisted suicides.

The incident unfolded on Sunday morning at Beauchamp's home in Southfield, a suburb of Detroit, when her family called 911 after noticing her lips were pale, that there were secretions around her mouth and she was having trouble breathing, Fieger said.

Southfield Fire Department paramedics arrived at the home at 7:34 a.m. on a call for an unresponsive female, Fire Chief Johnny L. Menifee said in a statement released on Monday. Menifee said the woman was not breathing when paramedics arrived.

"They checked multiple pulse points on the patient," Menifee said at a news conference on Wednesday.

The firefighters who responded checked Beauchamp's vital signs three times, including once after Beauchamp's godmother told them she thought she saw her move, Menifee added. He said the emergency crew -- two firefighter paramedics and two firefighter emergency medical technicians -- tried life-reviving measures on Beauchamp for 30 minutes.

He said the medical information on Beauchamp was relayed to an emergency department physician at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, where Beauchamp was pronounced dead based on the given information.

Menifee said the four firefighters, including a lieutenant with 18 years of experience, have been placed on administrative leave in keeping with standard procedure while the incident is investigated by the city of Southfield and the Oakland County Medical Control Authority.

"They feel terrible that this happened. They can't imagine how this possibly happened," Menifee said of the first responders. "They're emotionally upset that this happened and rightfully so."

Menifee apologized for not reaching out to Beauchamp's family but said he was in no position to answer their questions. He pledged to get answers for the family, but said "it's going to take time."

"I take full responsibility for not reaching out to them. I feel tremendously upset and bad at myself for not doing that upfront, but I know they want answers and I'm trying to get those answers for them," he said.

Since there was no foul play involved, the Southfield Police Department notified the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office of the findings and an on-duty forensic pathologist at the coroner's office released the body to the woman's family to make arrangements to have the body picked up by a funeral home of their choosing, according to a statement Menifee released on Monday.





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