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Celebrity Deaths: 2025’s Fallen Stars
The nursing community is mourning 1 of their own.
Hailey Okula, a nursing influencer known arsenic @rnnewgrads, died precocious past period portion giving commencement to lad Crew, her husband Matt Okula shared April 2. She was 33.
“It is with the heaviest of bosom that I stock the devastating quality of the unexpected passing of my beauteous wife, Hailey Marie Okula, owed to complications from childbirth,” Matt wrote successful an Instagram station shared to his wife's account. “Words cannot convey the extent of the nonaccomplishment I feel. Hailey was much than I could person ever dreamed of successful a woman and partner."
Matt called his woman “gorgeous, smart, hardworking, passionate, trustworthy, and supra each else, unbelievably loyal,” adding, “For astir 13 years, she stood by my broadside successful the hardest of times, loving maine endlessly, adjacent erstwhile I felt undeserving of that love. She was my everything."
While undergoing a c-section, Hailey suffered from amniotic fluid embolism—a rare cardiac complication erstwhile fluid enters a mother’s bloodstream successful childbirth—and died conscionable minutes aft welcoming Crew.
“She gave her beingness successful the astir noble way,” Matt told Fox 11 Los Angeles. “She was capable to spot him for a divided 2nd and I’m ever going to retrieve that.”
Hailey’s devastating decease besides comes aft years of undergoing IVF treatment to go pregnant.
“Words can’t picture however severely we wanted to beryllium parents,” Matt, a Los Angeles firefighter, besides wrote successful his Instagram tribute. “After years of infertility struggles and a long, challenging IVF process, we were overjoyed to beryllium expecting Crew. Hailey faced each hurdle with truthful overmuch courageousness and love—even though her assemblage went done truthful much, she ne'er wavered."
Hailey Okula/Instagram
Indeed, Matt shared that aft learning the mates would person to embark connected an IVF journey, helium “broke down,” disquieted astir the carnal toll it would instrumentality connected his precocious wife.
“She held my face, looked into my eyes, and said, ‘We are a team, and we’ll get done this together,’” helium recalled. “That was Hailey. A fighter. A teammate. A pistillate who would bash thing for the radical she loved.”
And that tone volition unrecorded connected done their son.
“Though her clip with america was tragically chopped short, Hailey’s emotion for Crew was limitless, agelong earlier helium entered this world,” helium wrote. “She would person been the astir astonishing mom. Her spirit, courage, and emotion volition unrecorded connected successful our son, and done everyone whose lives she touched.”
Hailey’s tone was evident successful her posting. In 2020, she shared she had begun her platform to assistance and enactment aspiring nurses.
“She dreamed of helping caller nurses thrive,” Matt wrote, “while besides being contiguous for our saccharine Crew, gathering a beingness and bequest she was truthful arrogant of.”
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