Doug Adkins, right, talks Oct. 16 at the Nassau County Board of County Commissioners meeting after the board proclaimed October 2024 as Emily Adkins Blood Clot Awareness Month. Janet Adkins, Supervisor of Elections, right, listens. Photo by Ashley Chandler/News-Leader
Janet Adkins, Nassau County Supervisor of Elections, holds up a sign that is part of a poster campaign started by Emily's Promise, the nonprofit Adkins and her husband, Doug, right, started in their daughter's name. Emily Adkins died in October 2022 of a massive Massive Pulmonary Embolism. Photo by Ashley Chandler/News-Leader
Doug Adkins, right, talks Oct. 16 at the Nassau County Board of County Commissioners meeting after the board proclaimed October 2024 as Emily Adkins Blood Clot Awareness Month. Janet Adkins, Supervisor of Elections, right, listens. Photo by Ashley Chandler/News-Leader
From left Commissioner A.M. "Hupp" Huppmann, Janet Adkins, Doug Adkins, pose for a photo with the proclamation declaring the month of October 2024 as Emily Adkins Blood Clot Awareness Month. Photo by Ashley Chandler/News-Leader
Commissioner A.M. "Hupp" Huppmann reads the proclamation declaring October 2024 as Emily Adkins Blood Clot Awareness Month in Nassau County at the Oct. 16 Board of County Commissioners meeting. Photo by Ashley Chandler/News-Leader
Emily Adkins never had a chance.
That’s what her father Doug Adkins said when he spoke Oct. 16 at the Board of County Commissioners meeting following the proclamation of Emily Adkins Blood Clot A…