Woman goes to the hospital to have a baby, leaves a quadruple amputee

Scottwax · 01-30-07, 04:29

Woman Becomes Quadruple Amputee After Giving Birth - News

Woman Becomes Quadruple Amputee After Giving Birth

POSTED: 5:59 pm EST January 19, 2006
UPDATED: 4:06 pm EST January 20, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Sanford mother says she will never be able to hold her newborn because an Orlando hospital performed a life-altering surgery and, she claims, the hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee.

Hondaph00l · 01-30-07, 05:13

OMG, that is terrible. It sounds like they are trying to hide the fact they are guilty of screwing up big time. I hope she sues them for all they're worth. I think they took alot more than her limbs on that operating table.

Alex

wannafbody · 01-30-07, 06:43

wow-it might have been transmitted from another patient to her by a doctor-really sad

flatstick · 01-30-07, 06:50

Wow that is unbelievable ! hard to believe that can happen. hope they get what is coming to them. can not imagine what she is feeling right now. such a sad story.

Charisma · 01-30-07, 07:29

Really is sad. Though you have to admit; hospitals do so much more good than bad you can't look down on them for this.

I too hope she sues for this because she lost a lot more than limbs after this surgery.

velobard · 01-30-07, 07:36

The hospital is obviously in major CYA mode, as I would expect. I've seen it before. Years ago I worked in a small-town hospital where a medication error on the night shift caused the death of a 14 y/o girl who had a minor procedure done and was just supposed to spend the night died. The hospital had been "upgrading" the nursing staff to all RNs by hiring new graduate nurses that hadn't even officially become RNs yet, and firing LPNs with 10-20 years experience. One of the new RNs messed up, everyone there knew exactly what happened, but the administration went into major lock-down/deny mode and threw out all sorts of implausible possibilities until the proof finally came out in the autopsy. This sort of thing happens far too often. Nosocomial infections are famous for being some of the nastiest, most stubborn bugs around.

klnyc · 01-30-07, 08:06

OMG

thats not right you know ? I hope she sue the ball crap of that hospital.

Cooter · 01-30-07, 08:14

Man thats just unreal. I mean, how do you go into a hospital to have a baby and then get all your extremites amputated? How would they not know you didnt have MSRA when you went into have a baby is what i want to know. Surely if the lady had been that sick to have that surgery done they would have known about it. I just feel so bad for this lady and her family. And shes got to live with this the rest of her life. So sad.

velobard · 01-30-07, 09:07

I hope she's able to get a primo settlement that will give her top-of-the-line rehab and prosthetics and all the medical attention she's going to need for the rest of her life, plus the assistance she's now going to need with child-rearing. There are going to be a lot of related expenses and it won't be a cheap figure to make this right....well, as right as it can be at this point.

BigAl3 · 01-30-07, 09:16

geez, what's suppose to be one of the special moments in her life (giving birth), ends up being a nightmare...

seikoguy · 01-30-07, 09:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by klnyc

I hope she sue the ball crap of that hospital.

Ehh? What?

Frugle · 01-30-07, 10:40

ugh, creepy. I cannot imagine waking up to see no arms or legs..

Quote:

"Yeah, I want to pick him up. He wants me to pick him up. I can't. I want to, but I can't," she said. "Woke up from surgery and I had no arms and no legs. No one told me anything. My arms and legs were just gone."