Crosby, Texas (KTRK)-During this week’s winter storm, a veteran from Vietnam in Texas died while looking for oxygen after he needed to breathe an unpowered machine.
Toni Anderson said while holding the tube connected to her husband’s oxygen machine: “He dragged everything through the house so he could breathe.”
Her husband Andy Anderson (Andy Anderson) served in the Vietnam War and met Agent Orange there. He was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and needed an oxygen machine.
“If you have electricity, that’s great. But if you don’t have electricity, it’s worthless.” Toni Anderson said. “That’s worthless.”
“We just thought that the power would be restored. She said: “We didn’t know that this kind of power would disappear within a few days. ”
Andy Anderson tried to get a generator to power his oxygen generator, but no luck. Then he went to the truck and bought an oxygen supply device.
“I went there and he didn’t respond. He was already cold,” Toni Anderson said. “It looks like he is trying to get out of the truck. He is lying on the console with one leg out of the truck.”
She said: “If there is no oxygen, if the power is not turned off, I think he will still be with me now.”
“Like what I did all week, I thought of what I wanted to say to him, I would turn around and he was not there,” Tony Anderson said. “I want to talk to him, he is not there.”
Now, she mourns the death of her husband. She said that if the system did not fail, the death could have been avoided.
Toni Anderson’s family needed repairs and lost her husband, so her family opened GoFundMe to help pay for it.
Post time: Feb-25-2021