One morning in April, Sarah McSwainy woke up with a fever, a bad one.

I got a phone call on the 21st, the morning of the 21st, that Sarah had woke up with a fever of 103.

Kimberly Conger is the nurse manager at a group home in Oregon City, Oregon, where Sarah lived at the time.

Sarah lived in a group home because she had a number of disabilities, including cerebral palsy.

She couldn't speak or walk on her own, and that morning she woke up with a fever.

Staff worried it might be a sign of COVID-19.

And they gave her some Thailand all the rain down and it continued to climb.

So we took her over to the emergency room.

It was a block away.

Not a hard trip in Sarah's bright pink wheelchair.

She got checked in and doctors started some tests.

But later that afternoon, there was a problem.

And it had to do with a one-page document that arrived with Sarah at the hospital that day.

It was a legal document that explained what kind of medical care Sarah wanted because she couldn't speak herself.

Sarah had helped preparing the document from an agency called The Arc of Oregon.

That was her guardian.

We had her at full code, so all treatment.

That's Heidi Barnett with The Arc of Oregon.

Because she was young and vibrant and had a great life.

This document, which is pretty typical in the state for people like Sarah to have,

said that in any life-threatening situation, she wanted full treatment.

And that was her wishes.

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