During the month after her visit to Hassouneh, there would be ER visits to CHWC via Williams County ambulance, a urinary tract infection, a kidney-related emergency (fallout from the cancer), drives to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne for oncology treatment, testing, then admittance to Parkview on July 22, where, finally, at 7:44 in the morning of July 23, Stephanie died. She was forty-six. The last twenty-four hours of her life produced bills for drugs, supplies, labs, the ER, respiratory care, pulmonary function tests, vascular diagnostics, echocardiology, a CT scan, blood, doctor’s fees, and
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