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Update, Aug. 9: Shona Holmes released a statement to FactCheck.org through Americans for Prosperity. She says that her husband “was told in no uncertain terms that if I waited the time scheduled to see specialists back in Canada I would be dead.” Holmes is suing the Canadian government and can’t release her medical files, she says. The Mayo Clinic also found that she had Cushing’s disease, a rare endocrine disorder, according to her statement. “My case was so complex – the tumor was not only compromising my optic chiasm but was also damaging my pituitary gland, and it was uncertain whether I had a pituitary tumor on the gland itself,” she says. “I was not producing ACTH, which is fatal, and I had gone into adrenal crisis on 4 different occasions.” She had surgery to treat the adrenal issues in Canada, but she says it took three years to get that operation. “It has just been one nightmare after another,” Holmes says.

“All experts who have reviewed my case, both before and after, made it very clear that I needed surgery within hours to days,” she says. “I wish I could release my medical files, but unfortunately I am in litigation trying to recoup my financial loss from the government.”