Widow files lawsuit against B.C.'s Northern Health authority, 4 physicians after death of spouse in 2020Britney Stewart, Josh Wakely and their son, Mason. Stewart was 30 and Mason was two when Wakely died on March 2, 2020.A widow living in Lake Country, B.C., has filed a lawsuit claiming her husband's strep infection was misdiagnosed three times in the emergency room before he died of necrotizing fasciitis — also known as flesh-eating disease — nearly two years ago.
"It's been definitely the most difficult two years of our lives," Stewart said, speaking in an interview from her home in Lake Country. "[And] the one person that is going to make it all better is the one that is gone." Physicians who saw Wakely during his second and third visits are accused of failing to order lab tests or call for bloodwork. Stewart claimed they didn't reference his previous visits either.
The couple bought a home together in Lake Country in 2016. They welcomed their son, Mason, the following year./Supplied by Britney Stewart) "I think it's hard for anyone to lose a spouse, but it's incredibly difficult for a young family to lose one of the parents, just because when you lose them, you're also losing all of the hopes and dreams that you had as a family ... we lost that the day that we lost Josh."Strep diagnosed by different hospital in Kelowna
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So sad.