NEED TO KNOW
- Pauline Potter, who appeared on season 3 of My 600-Lb. Life, has died almost a yr after she and her son had been concerned in a “fairly dangerous” automobile accident
- Her son, Dillon Brooks, defined that the fact star’s well being continued to say no after the accident
- “Her well being was not in state for her to maintain doing surgical procedures, they couldn’t do all these exams and surgical procedures and procedures that they needed to do as a result of there was all the time one thing improper,” he stated
Pauline Potter, identified for showing on season three of My 600-Lb. Life, has died. She was 62.
On Nov. 29, the fact star’s son Dillon Brooks shared the information on YouTube, occurring to element the “fairly dangerous automobile accident” that contributed to her numerous well being struggles.
“Sadly, my mother handed away this previous Thursday, on Thanksgiving,” Brooks started within the video earlier than recounting their January automobile crash. “We had been driving early within the morning, it was nonetheless darkish outdoors. We had been driving on a darkish two-lane freeway and there was a truck and trailer that was stopped in the course of the highway and we didn’t see it as a result of they didn’t have any lights on.”
Alleging that the motive force of the truck claimed he had run out of fuel on the time, Brooks stated that their automobile hit the nook of the trailer at round 50 miles per hour whereas he was asleep within the passenger seat. The affect allegedly spun the automobile round till they had been dealing with the “other way on the other aspect of the highway.”
Together with an instantaneous gash on her left leg and ache to her hand and wrist, Potter later found that the incident had additionally left her with a number of damaged ribs. She additionally started to expertise “extreme chest ache.”
Round 5 months after the accident, Brooks stated his mom started to expertise “digestive points” that prevented her from retaining any meals down. And even after going to the hospital two or thrice, he stated that medical doctors couldn’t discover something improper.
By August, nonetheless, one other journey to the hospital revealed that Potter had examined constructive for COVID-19 and that she additionally had a “blockage in her esophagus” that was stopping meals from passing by way of.
“I used to be pondering they had been simply gonna hold her in a single day whereas they handled her,” Brooks recalled. “However they ended up retaining her longer. So August 20 was the final time she was at dwelling and she or he has been within the hospital since then.”
After per week or two, Brooks stated that medical doctors tried to carry out a process on his mom which landed her within the ICU. They’d additionally found a “extreme” wound on her again that she allegedly hadn’t informed anybody about.
“Her well being was not in state for her to maintain doing surgical procedures, they couldn’t do all these exams and surgical procedures and procedures that they needed to do as a result of there was all the time one thing improper,” Brooks famous.
Though Potter then spent a number of weeks in a rehab facility in an try to get her vitamin ranges up, she was moved to hospice care at his aunt’s home on Nov. 19.
“We knew there was a really robust likelihood she may not make it by way of this,” Brooks stated, including that she was starting to indicate indicators of coronary heart failure and respiratory failure. “They didn’t suppose that she’d survive by way of any surgical procedures or make it for much longer.”
Whereas on his strategy to his aunt’s home on Thanksgiving Day, Brooks stated he obtained the information of his mom’s loss of life. He has since created a GoFundMe to boost funds for Potter’s cremation and memorial providers.