“I think it should be our decision, not their decision,” Avila’s daughter Cynthia Holguin said. “We need more time for my mom. They don’t know — when they see my mom move, they don’t think anything of it. Oh, she’s moving. They don’t see the things we see.”
The family has filed a lawsuit alleging that Avila was misdiagnosed and not properly treated for a tubal pregnancy and that the staff is to blame for her comatose condition.
“I’m only 16,” says Justine Holguin, “I shouldn’t be thinking about ‘Oh, they’re going to kill my mom. They’re going to take out the thing and her not being able to breathe.’ I shouldn’t be thinking that.”
Avila’s husband has pleaded with the hospital for more time to move his wife to a long-term care facility. Gile reports they told him he has until noon Tuesday.
Gile asked the hospital for a comment, and it said its statement remains the same from one it made Wednesday: its thoughts and prayers are with Lisa Avila’s family and due to privacy reasons, it can’t disclose much more.
