Marilyn Baatz had ridden in the back of an ambulance hundreds of times, but never as a patient. Not until the day she died. The 83-year-old retiree and former volunteer first responder officially died from septic shock in October 2022, but her son Mark blames a different culprit: the nearly two hours his mother waited between when an ambulance was called and when it showed up to their Chapin home.