USA First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff

Dear Governor Gretchen Whitmer,
I am an ambassador for the Drug Epidemic Memorial Wall. I lost my lovely daughter, Lisha
Bailey, on April 24, 2022, at the age of Forever 40. She was found unresponsive in a hotel
room in Ann Arbor. Lisha was a guest at that hotel and had only been present there for less
than 3 days prior to her untimely and unexpected death. She and her friend arrived in Ann
Arbor on April 20 to celebrate marijuana with the rest of the Ann Arbor community. Ann Arbor
has celebrated cannabis ever since the inception of the Hash Bash (aka 420 day) back in 1972.
On April 23, Lisha ingested (snorted) what she thought was cocaine prior to their weekend
plans of walking around the community, visiting event booths, and taking in the sights. It was a
warm sunny Saturday; one of our first warmer Michigan spring days. She loved walking, she
loved nature, she loved people. Sadly, she never made it out of their hotel room alive that day.
EMS responded to a frantic 911 call made by her friend. EMS found Lisha in cardiac arrest,
without a pulse. Narcan had already been administered by her friend - without success. EMS
administered their own Narcan and other lifesaving medications. They were able to resuscitate
her pulse to a very faint blip on their machine screen. EMS and AA Fire Dept were debating
whether to call the morgue for pickup or transport her to the University of Michigan Hospital
Emergency Dept for further medical assistance. Because of that faint blip on the screen, they
transported her to U of M Emergency. By the time she was admitted to the Emergency
Department, her body temperature had declined to 91°. Basically, she was brain dead. The
wonderful hospital medical staff transferred her from ER to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
where she was put on lifesaving medical support, awaiting a visit from family. Soon after that
brief initial visit, I agreed to have her life support removed and we all said our final goodbyes.
She officially died within 15 minutes. Her death was a complete shock to us. Besides myself,
she left behind 6 children, two siblings, a niece and nephew close to the same age as her own
children, her huge extended family and many friends. We all mourn the loss of her presence in
our lives.
Lisha’s Washtenaw County Medical Examiner autopsy and toxicology report took over 3
months to be completed. Cause of Death: Fentanyl and para-Fluorofentanyl Toxicity (and she
thought she was ingesting cocaine!) Manner of Death: Accident (This was no accident, it was
poisoning. And poisoning someone is murder!)
Our children need to know the dangers presented to them daily around this illicit fentanyl
epidemic. Like so many other victims of fentanyl poisoning, my daughter suffered with SUD but
she most definitely did not want to die. There are many young victims across this country that
were 100% deceived into thinking that they were taking a Xanax or Percocet for pain relief.
Instead of providing pain relief for a sports injury, for example, they were given a death
sentence because the pain pill they were given was deceitfully deadly. It looked 100% REAL
but was FAKE - 100% Fentanyl.
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