David Shaw, (Wife)Beverly Shaw-Missouri
My husband suffered a stroke the day after Thanksgiving, November 2022. After a long stay at the hospital and a good nursing home for rehab, he was at home recovering. I’ve been taking excellent care of him doing physical and occupational therapy, giving him daily baths, keeping records of his meds, taking him to doctor appointments. I took him downtown every day and would talk about what we saw and who we talked to as a means of mind and memory exercise. He regained physical and mental health. We were back to resuming a happy life.
He wanted to go on a vacation after being cooped up for so long. We stopped off in Michigan and visited his hometown in Indiana. This is where our nightmare started. During our visit, in the extreme August summer heat he got dehydrated, so I took him to the local hospital for IV fluids. Medical intervention didn’t go well. Even though I had medical power of attorney we became entangled in a legal web in Indiana leading to a court appointed guardianship. They claimed I wasn’t taking care of my husband and he’s staying in guardianship permanently. I believe this to be a wrongful confinement far from where we lived in Missouri, what I call medical kidnapping. They took all my rights away, confiscated our bank account, and placed him in an Indiana nursing home. If there is any neglect or abuse
going on I’m not able to confirm my suspicions. I haven’t been
permitted to see him in nine months. My only hope to get him
back home was to give our son guardianship, but our
relationship was estranged.
In desperation, and love for my husband, I loaded up my van and went on an extraordinary journey to New York. I drove 15 hours, loaded with pictures, flyers, and his two emotional support goats, to get help from the media. I camped out in Rockefeller Center for two weeks, talking about my plight to whoever would listen. I got into the New York Times, WCBS Radio, Channel 12 Westchester News. SEE Blaise Gomez-Westchester News. 17 I raised $36,000 and hired a lawyer and fought for almost a year, conserving money for the legal battle, and to feed my goats, by eating only once a day. All together I spent $43,000 on attorneys. As soon, as I ran out of money, they separated us. I need to hire an attorney again, but that costs more money. I’m sixty-six years old, sleeping in my 2014 Hyundai Sonata van with my husband’s two goats, Marshmallow and Brownie. This isn’t the way I pictured my retirement years. I’m not done and will not stop till I get my beloved husband back home where he belongs and deserves to be. I love him! I’ll do whatever it takes.
https://westchester.news12.com/missouri-woman-travels-more-than-
1000- miles-to-ny-to-seek-help-reuniting-with-her-husband