@DiamondandSilk Thanks to all who took a moment to hear a little bit about Andy and Larry. Make sure to stay tuned. There are more of us... Are you one? #wecallhimandy#wecallhimlarry
"Dead Serious, Kinda Not" Ellie Hayse and Janie Andrews join the show to discuss the loss of their Brother and Husband. Tonight at 10pm ET on Lindell TV. https://t.co/3jKdBVoPLb
@DiamondandSilk Thanks to all who took a moment to hear a little bit about Andy and Larry. Make sure to stay tuned. There are more of us... Are you one? #wecallhimandy#wecallhimlarry
@RepThomasMassie Dear Congressman Massie,
My name is Ellie Hodge Hayse from Kentucky, and I am begging you to please hear us out.
What started as my family searching for answers about my brother Andy Hodge has now become a nationwide effort involving families from across America comparing records, timelines, and hospital documentation patterns that look alarmingly similar.
Many of these patients were:
COVID negative, antibody negative,
unvaccinated,
admitted for underlying conditions, injuries, surgeries, infections, or chronic illnesses,
yet were still placed into COVID-style treatment pathways and isolation protocols.
My own brother entered the hospital after complications tied to a severe work-related broken leg injury. He had sepsis-related conditions and pneumonia concerns, but instead of aggressive sepsis-focused intervention, his care pathway shifted into prolonged COVID protocol-style management.
As we began comparing records from other families around the country, we found repeated patterns:
untreated or delayed sepsis recognition,
escalating oxygen dependency,
isolation from family,
heavy sedation,
ethics committee involvement,
DNR status changes,
and organ procurement organization involvement behind families’ backs.
Many families, including ours, were denied meaningful access to our loved ones because of hospital COVID restrictions. Some never got to say goodbye.
We now possess:
medical records,
timeline reconstructions,
side-by-side chart comparisons,
and recorded phone calls that we believe raise serious concerns about transparency and decision-making inside these hospital systems.
What terrifies us most is that these stories are not isolated anymore.
The similarities are too consistent across states, hospitals, and patients to simply ignore.
My father, Larry Hodge, believed deeply in protecting America’s future. He worked in Kentucky politics and was even written about in the book The Tea Party Goes to Washington because of his support for Senator Rand Paul and the belief that government accountability mattered.
Today, his son is gone.
Andy Hodge did not walk into a hospital because of COVID. He walked in because of complications following a devastating broken leg injury from work.
And yet our family believes he became trapped inside a system where protocols overtook individualized patient care.
We are not asking for special treatment. We are asking for someone with courage to look.
Please help us find:
proper federal oversight channels,
investigative review pathways,
whistleblower protections,
or anyone willing to examine the evidence families have collected.
We are trying to protect the future so no other family has to spend years wondering whether their loved one was treated as a human being or as part of a system that stopped listening.
Thank you for your time and for your willingness to challenge powerful institutions when others will not.
Respectfully,
Ellie Hodge Hayse
In his book “The Undead,” science writer Dick Teresi exposed the fact that brain death is not death.
Here’s how he answered an interviewer’s question about whether better protocols would fix this:
“Not really. It’s true that as much as 65 percent of brain death exams are done incorrectly, and many doctors could not list the criteria for brain death correctly.
Doctors I talked to said not to worry about patients moving about on the table or their blood pressure or heart rate spiking during harvest. These were just post-death reflexes, not an indication of pain or awareness. And yet the Harvard Criteria, the ur-text of brain death published in 1968, specifically state that there should be no reflexes and no movement.
But the bigger problem is that brain death as death per se is a fiction. There is no scientific purpose for brain death. It’s a serious, serious kind of coma, but not death. It was made death for practical reasons. The heart of a brain-dead person still beats, and circulates blood to the organs, keeping them fresh for their future owners.
And though the 1981 UDDA (Uniform Determination of Death Act) states that the “whole brain” must be dead, the whole brain is rarely tested. Usually, only activity in the brain stem is tested, not the cortex or higher structures of the brain, where consciousness, pain, and pleasure are interpreted.”
When asked whether this was a conspiracy between the transplant community and those who determine when a patient is dead, Teresi answered:
“Conspiracy is such a harsh word. Let’s say there’s a happy confluence of coincidences that results in $27 billion of revenue per year (in 2012) for the transplant business and incomes unheard of in other medical specialties.”