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My daughter, had an emergency C-Section, 2 weeks ago. Originally. she was given 2 doses of epideral, which only deadened 3/4 of one side of her body, for a va___al delivery. Suddenly, there was fetal distress, which the Dr. opted a C-Section. The she was put under with a local anesthesia. When my daughter came from surgery she was blown up like a balloon, weighing an addtional 30-60 pounds from fluid. She had staples, instead of stera-strips, which were removed after only 48hrs. & discharged from the hospital in 3 days. I had to take her to the E.R., 3 days later, still swollen, with fever, green discharge from incision, sick as could be. She was re-admitted to the hospital via the E.R., but not before they allowed her to lay there for over 6 hrs. with a fever, no fluids & someone forgot to send her culture to the lab. For 3 days, with 3 different intraveneous antibiotics, around the clock.
The hospital arranged for a home health care nurse, but when they showed up the next day, brought no supplies for packing bandage, 2nd day, no one showed up or called to re-pack the wound. Homehealth nurse was to repack her incision every 12hours. Thank goodness I watched everything the nurses did. She's still sick & trying to nurse her baby, but tomorrow, I'm taking her to my GYN & definitely not back to that hospital. Does anyone have advice for me, should I contact an attorney, she went into the hospital healthy. I really thought I was going to lose her due to staph cellulitis.
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I would definitely due something. That is a terrible. Don't take her back to that hospital. They are not paying any attention.
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Mom, I contacted a lawyer after my own c-section went bad. I was told that you can sue if there's permanent damage. Otherwise, it really isn't worth it. In my case, the only thing that was permanent is I have to take pota__sium tablets every day because my body no longer absorbs it correctly. Good luck, and I hope your daughter gets better.
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I get fed up that in this country its getting like the states (and I love America)the one thing I dislike abuot the states is if something goes wrong "sue".I know yours was'nt a simple gone wrong,and aware that your daughter,and yourself went through a terribly ordeal.If I were you I'd make a lot of fuss,but would'nt even consider making a claim.I lost my brother from cancer,aged just 35,at the time as a family to each other we questioned the amount of time it took between medications,why they dome this,and not that,and you could worry wourself silly over things.My aunt had to have 1/2 her liver removed,she was discharged from hospital,a nurse was supposed to come in every day to dress her wound,sometimes a nurse would'nt show.My uncle should have insisted,instead he took her to the doctors,and she was ill.In the end an infection killed her.If you sue,its only the health service that suffer,but I do sympathise with your case.
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