sr71blackbird
10-11-2003, 06:27 PM
My Mother in law died yesterday. Im not holding anyone here to anything, but I was wondering what you would do in this situation. She had a distended uterous 4 months ago, and the doctor had her wait till she could have the operation, in part because the rest of her family was away, and she doesnt speak English. They did the operation fine 6 days ago, they kept her in the hospital for 2 days before she started having complications (fluid building up in her lungs, a "mini stroke" and heart beat abnormalities), the doctors decide to check her heart, and they find that shes 100% blocked in one artery, and 90% in another. They tell her they can put in stents to help her out. While shes awaiting the procedure (remember her family doesnt speak much English) she says shes hungry and they ask the nurse to bring her something to eat. I wasnt there, but the nurse gives her food, and later they are preparing to bring her to the operating room. There was a woman in the next bed, and she said that she heard that you arent suppose to eat before surgery, and she has already eaten. Her son goes and asks the doctor and he says that she shouldnt have eaten, but they decide to do the stent procedure anyway. After the procedure, the doctor tells them they had some difficulty positioning one stent and they would need to monitor her. They monitor her for another day and half and tell her family that she looks fine and she can go home. She has a 102 degree fever as they discharge her. She goes home and looks really good. The next morning she complains of chest pain, tingly fingers and tightness along her left side. They call 911 and the ambulance arrives within minutes. Shes at the hospital within 15 minutes of the call, and while they are examining her there, she passes out and dies 5 minutes after she arrives. The ambulance crew, as they were rushing to the hospital, was asking about her procedures over the past few days and acted like it was highly suspicious that they would discharge her within 2 days of such a series of procedures, especially the fever on the day of discharge. Now, I know that this is the internet, and this advise is between members of a posting board and not to be taken as any indication of the boards consent or direction and I hold no one in any sence of authority and I take full responsibility for how I percieve any information I interpret from the responses of this posting and that I made it under my own decision. That said, do you feel that I should take matters up with an attorney for malpractice, so that this hospital doesnt have a chance to end someone elses mothers life before her time is due?
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