| Updated: 2/03 4:33 pm |
Published: 2/02 6:13 pm
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An Owasso family seeks closure after the death of their baby, but will have to keep waiting.
January 21, 2011 was supposed to be Madisyn Truesdale’s birth day, but five days before her family received the tragic news their child had died in the womb. That was only the beginning of their grief.
“We had just finished putting the baby clothes away and getting her hospital bag ready and we were all set, then a couple hours later found out she wasn't there anymore,” says Stacy Truesdale.
“I was numb, I was numb for about a month, and there are no words to describe it,” says Stacy.
The family filed for a death certificate. Weeks went by and then months. It took more than a year to get their baby’s death certificate, and when it arrived it wasn’t correct.
"We made phone calls to the funeral home and to the medical examiner, and he says they didn't want to spend the extra money on an ink cartridge,” says Stacy.
After a year and two weeks it finally came, but Stacy’s maiden name was listed instead of her married one.
“I thought are you serious, are you for real, that's not my name,” she says.
Floral Haven Funeral Home took responsibility for that mistake, but says the certificate should only take two to four weeks.
FOX23 went directly to the medical examiner’s office to get some answers. Off camera, the supervisor confirmed a back log of cases and admitted to not having the correct ink cartridge for the typewriter. Each stillborn certificate is created on a typewriter and not a computer. But why it took more than 52 weeks, there are no clear answers.
The Truesdale family is working with Floral Haven to make the proper changes to the death certificate. It will then be sent to the state medical examiner’s office. It’s not clear how long it will take to get the certificate back.
