Canadian man refuses MAID for cancer-stricken wife—takes her to US for immediate treatment

In a video posted to social media over the weekend, a Canadian husband recounted how his wife had to flee the country and go to the United States to get treatment for her stage four ovarian cancer, with Canadian doctors saying her only option would be to get government-assisted suicide. 

"It’s been two and a half years since my wife first fled Canada to save her life in the United States from stage four ovarian cancer after the Canadian healthcare system left her to die, where her only option would have been to kill herself on MAID because they had no treatment for her, they lied to her and said that the HIPEC surgery wouldn’t ever save her life, but it did," Donovan James, the husband of Kristin Logan, said. 

He said that Canadian doctors "lost her chemo requisition, so she never got started on that," and that she had only ever met with her oncologist over the phone. "And every time she went to the hospital begging for help in the ER because her lungs were filling in with fluid, and she was drowning in them, they kicked her out and sent her home with opioids because they didn’t have anybody there to drain her lungs." 

"So now she's getting closer to death and in a wheelchair. In a last-minute decision, she decides to try her luck in the United States," said James. Logan is a dual American-Canadian citizen and a US Air Force veteran. James said that he took his wife to the US, and upon arriving at a hospital in Seattle, she began chemotherapy and underwent HIPEC surgery, a specialized surgery for cancer treatment. 

She returned to Canada to be with her family, as her husband could not stay with her in the US. She had another medical emergency upon returning to Canada, and "finds herself again in a Canadian hospital, rotting and dying, and nearly about to go septic," he said. She returned to the US and went into immediate surgery. 

He said this pattern continued, "until finally we decided enough is enough and we got me a green card." He said they have since relocated to Texas, where "nobody talks about death. In fact, last week, my wife is doing so well on chemo … she’s going into a third remission, she’s back squatting 175 pounds for five in the gym last week."

"Does that sound like somebody who’s ready to die, Canada? Does that sound like somebody who needs to kill themselves with MAID? I’m so grateful to be here in the United States, I’m so grateful especially to be here in Texas. I love Texas. There’s state-of-the-art healthcare. There’s no waiting, there’s no bullsh*t. There’s no death cult here, just good care."

Logan announced just a few weeks into the new year that her cancer had returned, and has started her 13th round of chemo. She frequently posts videos of herself weightlifting at the gym, and celebrating how she has made it past her initial prognosis.