woman goes to hospital to deliver baby. hospital ends up amputeeing all 4 limbs. hospital won't tell her how or why she suddenly got the disease they say prompted them to amputee her.
http://www.wftv.com/news/6253589/detail.html
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woman goes to hospital to deliver baby. hospital ends up amputeeing all 4 limbs. hospital won't tell her how or why she suddenly got the disease they say prompted them to amputee her.
http://www.wftv.com/news/6253589/detail.html
Absurd! I hope somebody hangs for this :thumbsdown:
Edit: if it's true that is...I rather expect that this story turns out fake.
Hmm, that sucks.
Having said that, the amount of infections floating around British hospitals at the moment, it might be healthier just to risk giving birth in the street or something. At least whatever infects you will probably respond to antibiotics.
I started chuckling at that - then realized it's probably true of any hospital :shudder:Quote:
Originally Posted by BDC
Watch the video it's true. It happened around May of '05 though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kralizec
http://www.wesh.com/news/9148849/detail.html
This is from a year later and she still hasn't been told why and how she got infected.
http://www.wesh.com/2006/0502/9149759_240X180.jpg
Flesh eating bacteria? Sounds too x-files. Is this legit? :inquisitive:
What's striking is that it apparently affected all 4 limbs... that's almost too hard to believe. Makes you wonder.
Yes, it sounds like they had to be kinda injected into all four limbs. Which may of course have happened while someone used infected gloves while treating her or so. That may also be the reason the hospital doesn't want to give information. Someone might have screwed up and infected her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
In any case I think she is a really strong woman since she can apparently deal rather well with that tragedy only a year after it happened.
And I don't know why this should be made-up, just watch the videos, and those bacteria I heard of before.
A guy over here died when he contracted a flesh eating bacteria when he fell into the sewage contaminated Ala Wai Canal. They took his leg but he still died.
Because of this I avoid swimming south of Honolulu. If I want to go to the beach I go to the north side of the island.
http://starbulletin.com/2006/04/05/news/story02.html
That's what I figure. Considering that from the comments where I heard about this first indicate they settled with the hospital for a payday and an explanation of what happened. But the hospital made total secrecy on their part a must.Quote:
Originally Posted by Husar
Id be pissed if someone amputated all my limbs without asking me. This story is kind of depressing. Just wondering though...could the hospital be sued for not asking permission? She has a husband.
I dont know if I could live without all my limbs. Id definetely comtemplate suicide.
I guess sorry won't do here
I dont know if I could live without all my limbs. Id definetely comtemplate suicide.
Not having any limbs kinda complicates suicide
You could always wriggle under a bus. :sweatdrop:
A dreadful story.
IA you are a bad man :laugh4:
Wow. never again will I consider I am having a bad day.
Seriously. Each time Mrs Assassin has produced, we are out of there as fast as the midwives can check the baby has all four limbs and a head. Hospitals aren't places where you get well, they are places you get sick. If you aren't sick to start with you want to get out pronto.Quote:
Having said that, the amount of infections floating around British hospitals at the moment, it might be healthier just to risk giving birth in the street or something. At least whatever infects you will probably respond to antibiotics.
Happily given bed shortages this is usually also the hospital's agenda.
Can the hospital do that if what they did was criminal (negligence) on their part?Quote:
Originally Posted by lars573
Surely the public has a right to know if a public hospital has such a record?
I've knowe someone going in with a cut and ending up dead a few months later. The 'hospital bacteria' is a real killer, and to think most cases of infection could be avoided with proper hygiene :shame:
:laugh4: I don't know what kind of hospitals you have over there but I prefer the ones where you come out healthy and they treat disease and not infect you with one.Quote:
Originally Posted by English assassin
Happens all over the US too. US hospital InfectionsQuote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
Here as well, and from what I heard it's mostly due to staff being careless and not cleaning instruments properly.:juggle2:
How often do you hear about hospitals or doctors fouling up someones treatment? Not too often I'd wager. We only heard about this because it's an ultra tragic human interest story. Doctors are humans which means they screw up. But when a doctor messes up it's the patient who pays the price. As in this case. To me criminal negligence on their part would be if she'd not been treated for the flesh eating bacteria and died from it, potentially the baby too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Papewaio
Every Doctor is gonna make at least one miscalculation. If I had... say appendicitis for example, I think I'd rather go to the hospital then have Joe the Mafia Doc cut me open with a chiv.
*shiv
Still if you went to a mafia "surgeon" it would be with a real knife. And he would probably be a real doctor. Just drunk.
I fear her legal challenge hassn't got a leg to stand on.
Horrid. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
If I read right, they demand to go to court, so that the court can order them to provide the documents, which will name not only hospital staff and doctors, but also the other patient from whom the infection occured - which, under US med-privacy laws, they cannot provide otherwise.
I'm aware you gentle folk over the pond have some quaint customs, but surely hacking off limbs without a consent form being signed is surely not one of them?
I mean, necrotising fasciitis can be quick, but I understand it is possible to spend a few moments explaining what needs to be done to the patient or their representative. Isn't it a legal requirement to get consent before an operation?
:huh:
BG I read both articles and watched the video with it. From what I gather while she was in recovery from popping out her son they came to her and said you've got necrotising fasciitis in your legs/arms. We've got to operate now or your dead. She agreed. Then afterwards the hospital wouldn't give her the full story of how she contracted said baterial infection.
Fair enough, lars, thank you. I only read the first link where she seemed to be claiming that she didn't know what happened - not just in getting the infection, but why the amputation happened. For example:Quote:
Originally Posted by lars573
I thought it seemed a bit fishy that no consent would have been sought - and surely they would have evidence that she consented. Still seems odd though to have got the infection in each limb at the same time.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."
:bow:
That's probably because when they sold her on the surgery they told her that aputation was the worst case/last resort senario. Which it is. What they try to do is go in and cut out just the infected tissue and hope it hasn't spread too far. What then, in all probability, occured was they got in there and had a look and were like "aw crap, get the bone saw." It had spread to far.
Also this necrotising fasciitis only requires bare skin contact with something/one contaminated with it to spread to you. So all it would take would be her bed sheets, nurse/doctors scrubs to be improperly cleaned and she could get it in all limbs.
A gruesome scenario indeed, lars573. After reading her husband's statement, in that article:
I won't be surprised to learn that HE actually signed a consent form for his temp-disabled spouse. He's not displaying the righteous outrage I would expect to see in a matter like this. His words seem more appropriate for a wife with an addiction problem.Quote:
"I love her, so I'll always stick with her and take it a day at a time myself," said her husband, Tim Edwards.
IF he did, and hasn't told her, fur will fly, I think.
Well Kukri in the follow up reports video she's not in shock from having her limbs hacked off and can speak more clearly.
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Twelve days after giving birth to her son Matthew, doctors gave her a choice no one would ever want to make
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"If I want to live, they want to cut off my arms and legs. If I don't, I'll keep my arms and legs but I'll die. Is this a dream?"