The legacy of a young Mishicot man will live forever thanks to the hard work of his parents and their work in making epinephrine more easily available.
Over the next four days, we are going to tell you about Dillon Mueller, and how his parents have been keeping his legacy alive.
Dillon was, according to his parents Angel and George, an adventurous young man. George told Seeahfer News that he was “always up to something” and that he had been racing motorcycles since he was six.
However, his promising young life came to a sudden end in October of 2014.
“Basically one day he was helping a friend do yard work and he got stung by a bee and had an allergic reaction to the bee sting,” he explained. “We didn’t know he was allergic.”
EMS was called but they were not equipped with epinephrine autoinjectors.
They did defibrillate Dillon twice and took him to a hospital, where he remained in a coma for a week before succumbing to his allergic reaction.
Angel told us that her experience with Dillon made her realize that something had to change.
“This has to change. I realized it that night, seeing Dillon receiving CPR and being defibrillated,” she said. “I was moved to do something.”
Through their research of state law, Angel and George learned that getting your hands on an epinephrine autoinjector was not easy for someone without a prescription.
Angel tells us she believes if it were easier, Dillon may still be alive today.
“Dillon and his best friend were both Eagle Scouts,” Angel revealed. “They most likely would have been prepared. They most likely would have had an epinephrine autoinjector in their first aid kit.”
So, the Muellers got to work.
Click here for part 2 on how the couple’s work locally and around the state has saved numerous lives, and how they are looking to make even more changes around the country.
