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Scott Jamieson was at home when Glenn and Shirley noticed his speech was off.

He couldn't complete his sentences. Also, Scott was on the computer at the time talking to Marilee, a lifelong friend from Waukesha, WI. They talked him in to going to the hospital (3 years before, he had a small stroke.) His brother Rick took him to South Lake hospital in Clermont which was close. 

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They found he had a small stroke again, and the gave him blood thinners. 

After a couple days in South Lake, they put him in ICU because his symptoms were getting no better, though the hospital did not have the technology to do anything else for him. We poked and prodded the doctors and nurses to get him to Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC). They were having troubles finding a Neurosurgeon and a hospital bed. Disgusted with  the care Scott had been given, we bullied the hospital to make quick action, an hour later, 1am Monday morning, Scott was helicoptered to ORMC.

 July 17th was Scott's first day at ORMC. We was still quite awake, though he had horrible head cramps and the hospital sedated him heavily. Scott's daughter Nicole was supposed to be here to see him August 3rd, because of the circumstances, she arrived between the 18th and the 19th to see her father. 

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July 19th was the last time Scott was able to speak. He told me his head hurt. He had also told Todd and Misty that he wanted my brain. Scott and I thought a lot of each other, I will take that compliment over anything I could ever receive again. Marilee was by his side the entire time, while Scott was speaking, it was important to him that we had all met her, little did he know the bond that would be created by this tragedy. His daughters; Leigh, Samantha and Nicole were very strong. At almost his last opportunity, he saw his 3 daughters together for the first time and was able to tell them he loved them.

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We knew at this point that his strokes were continuing to get worse. Because of South Lake Hospital giving him blood thinners, ORMC could not do anything to repair him. The cause for the strokes, to this day are unknown. The blood in his brain left him helpless to the pain and sedation. By the 21st, he could no longer talk. We would communicate to Scott by touching his hands and feet. He would tap his feet and move his hands to communicate back.

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From the time Scott was at ORMC, my wife and I stayed in the waiting room. Marilee was their during that time along with Scott's daughter Leigh and her husband Dale and Todd and Misty. We took this role to help the rest of the family, and to not leave Scott alone for one minute. The rest of the family visited constantly and took care of all the other things that needed to be done.

We were allowed to go see him in his room from 10am to 6pm, then again, 8pm to 9pm, these were the ICU rules. We would call from the waiting room phone every 2 hours to get his status. At one point, Todd and I went in the room with a guitar and played the songs Scott had written years before along with songs we thought he'd like. He tapped his foot to the beat the entire time.

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The morning of July 22nd, several of us were told that Scott 24-48 hours to live. This is when we called everyone to tell them that not even a miracle could save him. "This is a hard pill to swallow", I must have said a hundred times. This was a unique situation in where everyone had a special bond with this special person. Scott, somehow, had developed such could relationships, we all knew Scott in our own special ways. To explain my relationship with Scott would only do it injustice. He was more than just a brother to me, and I know many people felt this way.

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