So this is the update on Christopher Campbell, my brother-in-law. If you've been following along the last few videos, his honor walk, the flag flying for him in his honor, the pictures before he passed, This is what happened. Warning. This is tragic. It is a story of the US epidemic with drugs.
But in this case, it was intentionally done to him and not him doing it to himself. Chris had been sober for quite a quite a while, had not even had alcohol in quite a while. There was nothing in his system, but his girlfriend had given him a Fentanyl laced cigarette. He never even used Fentanyl, Never once until he overdosed from it, and we do believe it was intentional. And the police are investigating it.
But, when he was given the cigarette, he immediately overdosed. The paramedics were called 4 to 7 minutes without oxygen went by. The paramedics came, and they didn't even give him Narcan. I would like to know why. Why is that not a standard of care?
Because it should be. It could have saved his life. But instead, here we are, the day he died. So Saturday morning, me and Josh woke up and started our day, and his mother had called quite a few times and let us know that we needed to hurry up and get home because Chris, they didn't know if he was gonna make it. At that point, it was still questionable.
So we got a rental car and which was a task and a half trying to get that car because out the United States credit system and laws on insurance and, basically, United States, y'all gotta do better because these laws are gonna prevent people from being able to say goodbye to their loved ones. It's the poor people, the people without money that you're hurting the worst. Anyways, so our best friend one of our absolute best friends, Isaac, loaned us the money for the hotel room and even got the car in his name because I couldn't even get the car in my name. 40 years old and can't even get a car in my name. I don't get it.
Like, that's a whole another video. So 7 o'clock on Saturday, we hit the road, and I drove through the night. And around 9 between 9 and 9:30 on Saturday morning, we arrived in Clearwater and went straight to the hospital and find found him in the condition of the first video I posted of him. And we didn't know if he was gonna make it at that point. They had not fully rolled out that he couldn't recover from it.
So, after checking in with the family, we went and had to fight with the hotel industry. Finally got a room. $80 a night for the first two nights and a $118 for tonight, which I'm not even going to stay the whole night because we are leaving in an hour and a half to go back to Alabama because I've got to have that rental car back at 4 o'clock tomorrow in Huntsville, Alabama. So we're gonna drive through the night again. I haven't had much rest at all since I've been here.
It's been exhausting. So we were going supposed to be back at, like, 5 o'clock Saturday because the the original plan was I think they didn't realize he was an organ donor at first. The original plan was at 5 o'clock, they were gonna unplug him. And then the whole organ donor thing came about, and they decided to donate his kidneys. That's the only organ that could be saved the only organs that could be saved.
And I think, there were skin and tissues, that could be donated as well. But, we know for a fact, 2 people were saved from his kidneys. And, that made Chris a hero at his death. He was getting his life straight, and he's a hero. And he deserved to have his twin brother there to say goodbye to him.
So, we were at the hotel about 3 o'clock, and, his mom called and said, well, Chris is not gonna be taken off life support at 5. We're gonna try to hold him on life support for a few days so they could arrange for the organ donation teams, all that good jazz, and, Chris had other plans. He was ready to check out. He was ready he was to go. So, he pushed the timeline on us.
At 10:30, his mom called us and said that we had to get back up to the hospital right then, because he was going. And, they were pushing everything they could to get the organ donation teams together by 1:30 AM and to keep him holding on till then, and which he did. At right after 2, they did a walk of honor for Chris at Meese Countryside Hospital. The halls were lined, and it was beautiful. Like, knock you back beautiful.
The people who paid respect to him. And I I got that on film. It's a couple of videos back if you wanna go watch that, and I encourage you to because he's a hero and he deserves that. Anyways, so 2:14 AM, he was gone this morning. And in about an hour and 20 minutes, I'm gonna be leaving to head back to Hunts Huntsville, Alabama to take back that rental car because I can't afford to keep it another day, and I can't afford the hotel.
And as is, I gotta pay my friend back and figure out how to survive the rest of the month. So if you wanna help us out, cover the cost of this trip. So it was worth it. Every penny, it was worth it. Below are the links for my cash tag and on catch up and my PayPal.
We really appreciate your prayers, your thoughts, all the posts and comments you've been leaving. Your stories about Chris, they're so welcome. Just keep us in your thoughts and prayers, and, help us out if you can. If you can't, we completely understand. We did have a $100 donation come in last night.
And absolutely bless that angel. She's actually a, flight paramedic that donated to us to us, and we greatly appreciate that. So, so that's yeah. That's what happened to Chris. And the United States needs to do better to stop the Fentanyl epidemic.
