Hospitalized Hatboro Cop Not Expected To Recover; Plans Are To Put Him On Hospice

HATBORO, PA — The family of the Hatboro police officer hospitalized since suffering a heart attack brought on by a bee sting allergic reaction last fall now says he is no longer expected to recover from his condition, and plans are in place to discharge him to hospice care where is expected to spend his remaining days.

Whitney Allen, wife of Hatboro K9 Officer Ryan Allen, revealed the difficult news in a Facebook post, saying that doctors no longer believe her husband has a chance to recover from the devastating brain injury he suffered due to lack of oxygen when he went into cardiac arrest following the bee sting.

"Ultimately, we have been told by his medical team there is no chance that he will recover in any meaningful way," Whitney Allen wrote on Facebook on Friday. "Due to this more definitive picture of his prognosis, we have made the extremely painful decision as a family to have Ryan discharged from rehabilitation on hospice care to spend his remaining days surrounded by loved ones and friends in a peaceful setting close to our home."

Patch has been covering Allen's devastating and unexpected injury since the officer was first hospitalized last fall.

Previous coverage can be found here.

On Friday, Whitney Allen stated that the family had every intention to bring her husband home after his discharge from Moss Rehabilitation. She even started a GoFundMe recently to help with costs relating to constructing a wing of her family's Doylestown, Bucks County home that would be conducive to Ryan Allen's needs once in a home setting.

But as time moved on, Whitney Allen said, the family learned that Ryan Allen's anoxic brain injury was even "more devastating and extensive than we even first knew or could understand."

"Now that it has been several months since his cardiac arrest, the swelling in his brain has subsided and a recent MRI revealed shrinking of his brain and that crucial portions of his brain are no longer there," Whitney Allen posted on Facebook.

Whitney Allen said the realization that her husband was not going to ever recover was devastating and the decision to move him to hospice care was heartbreaking, since the hope had been all along that he would eventually recover in some way.

"I know many of you have also shared that hope with us over the last months as well," she wrote. "As his family and the people that know and love him the most, we know from the bottom of our hearts that Ryan would not want to live in the current state he is in. We want to do what is best for Ryan and that is to give him his freedom and peace after so much trauma and pain."

Whitney Allen thanked the greater community for the love and support that has been shown to her family over these past many months.

"Please pray that we have the strength for this next part and that Ryan suffers no additional trauma or pain during his transition to heaven," she posted. "Thank you all again."