SAN ANTONIO (KABB/WOAI) - A Texas family looking at $4 million in hospital bills is now facing another challenge.
Mark Miranda has been in the hospital for seven months due to Covid complications.
The husband and father of two is still on a ventilator and making slow progress.
A visit from the Comal County Sheriff's Department last week is making their medical misfortune a nightmare.
Mark was served papers ordering him to appear in court.
A request from Christus Santa Rosa asks Mark be stripped of his rights to make decisions on behalf of his health and forfeit them to a group called Angel Guardians.
The family claims it's an effort to remove him from the hospital.
"I don’t think it’s fair and I can make my own decisions," says Mark.
According to personal injury attorneys we spoke with, that guardian would be allowed to make all of the medical decisions for Mark and even decide whether family members, like his spouse, would have access to him.
"If he’s able to demonstrate that he is of sound mind, capable of making decisions, has a sense of awareness, then it would be completely inappropriate for a guardianship to be appointed," says attorney Erica Maloney.
Maloney says guardianships are appointed when someone is incapacitated, that's how paperwork from the hospital refers to Mark.
But mark's wife Kim says he's far from incapacitated.
"Now he’s moving his arms, you can see that he’s moving his own arms, he’s moving his legs, he can do a lot of things if given the chance,"...
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