Overview
- Rachel Tussey documented her abdominoplasty preparation for more than 25,000 TikTok followers before her Feb. 25 surgery.
- Her husband says she became unresponsive in the recovery room, staff began CPR, and an ambulance took her to TriHealth Bethesda North Hospital, where she was placed on life support.
- Doctors told the family she had been without oxygen for over six minutes, she was later declared brain dead, and life support was removed on March 5, according to relatives.
- The husband alleges she was overmedicated for pain and says Narcan was administered without success, while no statements from the surgeon or surgery center were reported.
- A GoFundMe describes her as a devoted mother and notes the family retained legal counsel, with no lawsuit filed as they grieve her loss alongside her husband and three children.