A MONTH HAS GONE BY, AND I WOKE UP FROM A DEAD SLEEP, WITH THE WORDS THAT THE DR. (WHO DID THE C-SECTION) KEPT ASKING ME AND MY DAUGHTER WAS STUCK IN MY HEAD. HE KEPT ASKING US IF WE DOUBT ANYTHING, THAT HE DID. HE WOULD ASKED ME THAT, WHEN I TALKED TO HIM ON THE PHONE, WHEN I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH MY GRANDSON, AT LEAST 10 TIMES. I TOLD HIM NO, THAT I DIDNT DOUBT ANYTHING THAT HE DID.
I JUST HAD THIS WEIRD FEELING TO GO DOWN TO THE HOSPITAL AND GET THERE MEDICAL RECORDS. EVERY TIME THAT I'VE GONE DOWN THERE TO GET MEDICAL RECORDS, IT NO BIG DEAL, YOU SIGN A RELEASE FORM, THEY GO IN THE BACK AND GET YOU YOUR RECORDS. ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL, I CALLED AND SAID I WAS ON MY WAY TO PICK UP THESE RECORDS. SHE ASKED ME FOR THE NAMES. I TOLD HER, AND SHE PUT ME ON HOLD. WHEN SHE GOT BACK ON THE PHONE, THE FIRST THING SHE ASKED ME, WAS I GOING TO TAKE THESE TO A LAYWER? I THOUGHT THAT WAS KINDA STRANGE. I TOLD HER NO I WAS'NT, IT WAS FOR MY PERSONAL USE. SHE TELLS ME TO HANG ON AGAIN, PUTS ME ON HOLD, AND WHEN SHE GOT BACK ON SHE TOLD ME I WOULD HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER LADY, WHO WORKED THERE, BUT SHE WAS'NT IN, AND DID NOT KNOW WHEN OR IF SHE'D BE BACK IN THAT DAY. BY THEN I WAS IN THE PARKING LOT, WALKING IN. SO I JUST TOLD HER I WAS WALKING IN RIGHT NOW. SHE HAD ME AND MY DAUGHTER SIGN THE RELEASE FORMS. TOOK THEM IN THE BACK ROOM, CAME BACK AND SAID SHE COULD NOT GIVE ME THE RECORDS. I ASKED WHY. SHE SAID I HAD TO WAIT TO TALK TO HER BOSS, WHO WOULDNT BE IN UNTIL THE NEXT DAY. I WAS'NT VERY HAPPY WHEN I LEFT THERE.
I WENT IN THE NEXT DAY, I TALKED TO THE LADY SHE WANTED ME TO TALK TO AND SHE HAD US RELEASE FORMS TO SIGN AGAIN. SHE TOOK THE FORMS IN BACK, I COULD HEAR HER TALKING TO SOMEONE BACK THERE. SHE CAME BACK AND SAID SHE COULD NOT RELEASE THEM TO ME. I ASKED HER WHY, SHE GAVE ME THIS EXCUSE THAT I WOULD HAVE TO TALK TO HER BOSS. I'M THINKING HOW MANY BOSS'S DO I HAVE TO TALK TO? BECAUSE, SHE WASNT SURE IF MY DAUGHTER COULD SIGN TO GET MY GRANDSON'S RECORDS. SINCE SHE WAS UNDER AGE. SHE WASNT SURE WHAT THE POLICY WAS. THIS WAS ON A FRIDAY, AND I DIDNT GET THOSE RECORDS UNTIL THE FOLLOWING THURSDAY. WHEN I DID PICK THEM UP, THEY GAVE ME THE EXCUSE THAT THEY THOUGHT I WAS MY DAUGHTER'S GRANDMA. HELLO I'M 33, AND I'M A GRANDMA TO A 16YR OLD?
WHEN MY DAUGHTER WENT TO BED, I JUST HAD THIS FEELING TO WAIT, UNTIL SHE DID FALL ASLEEP. I THANK GOD I DID. I READ MY DAUGHTER'S RECORD FIRST... OH MY GOSH, I COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT I WAS READING. THE DR. LIED THREW HIS TEETH. HE NEVER MENTIONED THE USE OF THE J-HOOKS. HE SAID THE SURGURY LASTED 10MINS. AND HE HAD WHITED OUT SOME THINGS THAT HE HAD WRITTEN. (I FOUND OUT LATER, THAT ITS AGAINST THE LAW TO DO THAT, THERE SUPPOSE TO DRAW ONE LINE THREW THE WORD, AND THEN INITICAL ABOVE IT) NOTHING WAS MENTIONED ABOUT THE ANATHESEOLIGIST TAKING AN HOUR TO GET THERE. AND ALSO MY DAUGHTERS REGULAR O.B. NOTES WHERE IN THERE. SHE ALSO LIED AND SAID, THAT MY DAUGHTER ONLY WENT TO TWO OFFICE VISITS. THAT WAS A TOTAL LIE. BUT SHE DID MENTION, THAT IN ONE OF HER SO CALLED 2 VISITS, SHE HAD BLOOD IN HER URINE. THEN WHY DID'NT SHE SAY ANYTHING? THE DR. PUT ON HIS REPORT, THE REASON FOR HER GOING INTO PREMATURE LABOR WAS INSUFFIENCT PRENATEL CARE. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW UPSET I WAS, AND GOT WORSE THE MORE I READ.
IN THE O.R. NURSES REPORT, THERE HAS TO BE TWO NURSES THAT FILL OUT A REPORT.(ITS THE LAW) BOTH OF THEM PUT ? ON THE LINE TO WHY THE SURGURY WAS BEING DONE. THEY BOTH PUT DONE THE TIME OF SURGURY WAS 45MIN. THEY WHERE SAYING THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE DR SAID.
IN MY GRANDSONS REPORT, THE FIRST THING THE LIFE FLIGHT NOTED WAS MASSIVE EXTREMITY BRUSING. MY GRANDSON, HAD A BRUISE ON HIS BACK, THE PERFECT SHAPE OF A THUMB PRINT.
I DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO DO. I DIDNT WANT TO BRING THIS UP, AND HURT MY DAUGHTER WORSE, WE ALL WERE IS SUCH DEVASTATION BY HIS DEATH. HOW COULD I TELL HER THAT MAYBE HER SON WOULD STILL BE ALIVE, IF THE DR. 1ST OFF, SHOULD OF PUT HER ON THE LIFE FLIGHT, TO THE UOFU WHERE IF SHE DID HAVE TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY C-SECTION, SHE'D BE RIGHT THERE SO THEY COULD IMMEDIATLY TAKE CARE OF MY GRANDSON. INSTEAD OF WASTING THE TIME TO LIFE FOR THE ANATHESEOLIGIST TO ARRIVE, TO FLIGHT MY GRANDSON. NOT TO MENTION THE NURSE WHO PULLED HIS VENTALATOR OUT. BUT AS SOON AS MY DAUGHTER HAD LAID DOWN ON THE OPERATING ROOM TABLE AND WAITED FOR AN HOUR, MY GRANDSON WENT BACK IN, AND WAS AT THE TOP OF HER UTERUS. THATS WAY HE HAD SUCH A HARD TIME GETTING HIM OUT. HE COULD OF JUST PUT HER ON COMPLETE BED REST. I'VE HEARD THAT THERE IS A METAL CUP, THAT THEY CAN PUT UP A WOMEN IN THESE KIND OF CASES.
I CARRIED AROUND THIS INFORMATION FOR A MONTH INSIDE MY HEAD, NOT TELLING ANYONE. AND IT WAS KILLING ME INSIDE. I PRAYED AND PRAYED ASKING GOD HIS GUIDENCE ON WHAT I SHOULD DO. I FINALLY DECIDED TO SIT DOWN WITH MY DAUGHTER AND TELL HER EVERYTHING. AS SOON AS I GOT THEREW SPEAKING, SHE GOT UP TOLD ME TO HANG ON. IT FREAKED ME OUT , I DIDNT KNOW IF SHE LEFT TO GO CRY OR WHAT BUT SHE CAME BACK WITH A PIECE OF PAPER WITH A LADYS NAME AND #. SHE TOLD ME, THAT SHE JUST SO HAPPENED TO SIT NEXT TO A LADY AT THE WIC'S OFFICE, AND THEY STARTED TO TALK ABOUT PREMATURE BABIES, MY DAUGHTER TOLD HER SHE JUST LOST HER SON, AND I GUESS TOLD HER THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED. WELL IT JUST SO HAPPENED THAT, THIS LADY ALSO HAD THE SAME DR. AND SHE CAME REALLY CLOSE TO LOOSING HER SON, BECUASE OF THIS DR.S NEGLEGENCE.
I WAS IN SHOCK, I EXPECTED MY DAUGHTER TO FREAK OUT OR SOMETHING, BUT DEEP DOWN SHE KNEW, SHE SAID. HOW WERIED IS THAT SHE'D SIT NEXT TO SOMEONE WHO HAD THE SAME O.B. DR. THEN I WAS AMAZED BY THE INFORMATION THAT WAS JUST BEING DROPED INTO MY LAP. I HAD 2 REALLY GOOD FRIENDS WHO WORKED FOR THE HOSPITAL. I TRIED TO GET INFO OUT OF THEM BEFORE, BUT THEY WOULDNT SAY MUCH ABOUT THIS DR. I COULD RESECT THAT, CUZ THEY WORK FOR THE HOSPITAL. THEN OUT OF THE BLUE MY ONE FRIEND WHO IS A RADIOLOGIST WHO DID THE THE ULTRASOUND ON MY DAUGHTER 3DAYS BEFORE SHE WENT INTO LABOR, TOLD ME THAT IF IT WAS TRUE, WHAT THE DR. WAS SAYING, SHE WOULD OF SEEN IT WHEN SHE WAS DOING THE ULTRASOUND. AND THAT THERE WHERE SEVERAL COMPLAINTS BY EMPLOYEES FOR THINGS THIS DR HAS DONE WRONG TO OTHER PATIENTS. THEN A FEW DAYS LATER MY OTHER FRIEND, CAME UP TO ME AND SAID, GET A LAWYER AND NAIL THIS DR TO THE WALL. THE HOSPITAL HAS BEEN COVERING UP HIS MISTAKES BY PAYING PEOPLE OFF SO THEY WOULDNT TAKE IT TO COURT. I WAS HEARING FROM DIFFERENT WOMEN OR WHO KNEW OF A WOMEN ALL THESE AWFUL THINGS ABOUT WHAT THIS DR WAS DONE TO THEM.
I FELT IT, IN MY HEART THAT THE RIGHT THING TO DO WAS TO GET A LAWYER, AND TRY TO NAIL THIS DR'S ASS TO THE WALL.
IT WASNT ABOUT THE MONEY FOR ME, I BELIEVE GOD WANTED ME TO PURSUE THIS, SO THIS NEVER EVER HAPPENS TO ANOTHER WOMEN AGAIN. AND THEY WONT HAVE TO GO THREW THE MASSISVE HEARTACHE WE ARE FEELING RIGHT NOW.
SO, I GOT A LAWYER ABOUT 50 MILES AWAY FROM MY HOME TOWN. HE WAS HIGHLY RECOMMENED. ME AND MY DAUGHTER WENT IN FOR OUT INITIAL VISIT, TOLD THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED. THIS LAWYER TOLD US HE HAS HAD PEOPLE COME IN BEFORE, BECAUSE OF THIS DR. SO HE KNEW THE DR'S NAME VERY WELL. HE EXPLAINED TO US THAT PREMIEE WRONGFUL DEATH, IS ONE OF THE HARDEST CASES TO PROVE. HE TOLD US THAT OUT OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAS CAME IN, BECAUSE OF THIS DR. MY DAUGHTERS EXPERIENCE WAS THE WORST NEGLAGENCE HE HAS HEARD OF. BY THIS DR. THEN MY DAUGHTER SHOULD HIM THAT PICTURES, AFTER LOOKING AT JUST A FEW OF THE PICTURES, HE STARTED TO CRY. HE COULD NOT BELIEVE, ALL THE MASSIVE BRUSING. HE'D TURN THE PAGE, GET UP AND SHOW THE MAIN LAYWER OF THE FIRM THE PICTURE. COME BACK AND STARTING LOOKING AGAIN, UP AGAIN HE'D GO, TO SHOW HIM THIS PICTURE. BUT WHEN HE GOT TO THE PICTURE OF THE HORRIBLE BRUISE, ON MY GRANDSON BACK, IN A PERFECT SHAPE OF A THUMB PRINT. HE JUMP OUT OF THE CHAIR RAN TO THE NEXT ROOM, AND WE COULD HERE HIM TALKING.. HE TOLD THE MAN MAIN, LOOK AT THIS PICTURE. I COULD TELL BY THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE, HE WAS VERY UPSET.
HE ENDED UP COMING BACK WITH THE MAIN MAN, HE LOOKED AT MY DAUGHTER, AND SAID HE WAS SO SORRY. THEY TOLD US THAT THEY WOULD TRY EVERYING IN THERE POWER TO NAIL THIS DR. THE LAWYER WITH THE PICTURES STILL HAD TEARS RUNNING DOWN HIS CHEEKS. I STARTED TO FEEL A LITTLE GLIMPSE OF HOPE, WHEN WE LEFT THERE.
ALL THE OTHER RECORDS, FROM LIFE FLIGHT, AND THE UOFU(THE HOSPITAL WHERE MY GRANDSON WAS HAD ALLREADY ARRIVED
IT TOOK OVER A MONTH, CLOSER TO 2 BEFORE THEY FINALLY GOT THE MEDICAL RECORDS FROM THE HOSPITAL WHERE THE C-SECTION WAS DONE. THE DR, EVEN CALLED THE LAW FIM, AND SPOKE WITH OUT LAWYER, AND HAD ASKED WHY HE REQUESTED THESE CERTAIN RECORDS. THE LAWYER, TOLD ME, THAT NONE OF THE OTHER LAWYERS, EVER HAD A DR CALL AND ASK WHY, THEY WHERE REQUESTING MEDICAL RECORDS. WHEN THE LAWYER WAS TELLING ME THIS, HE SAID TO ME, THE ONLY REASONS THAT WE CAN THINK OF, WHY HE CALL AND WANTED TO KNOW IS BECAUSE HE KNEW HE HAD DONE SOMETHING WRONG. HE THEN SAID THAT NOW THAT ALL THE RECORDS WHERE IN THEY WERE GOING TO SEND THEM TO THERE DR'S TO LOOK OVER.
IN THE MEAN TIME, I MET A WOMEN IN THE N.A. PROGRAM WHO WAS PREGNANT. I ASKED HER WHO HER DR. WAS. WHEN SHE TOLD ME THAT IT WAS THE SAME DR. FOR HER AND HER BABYS SAFETY I TOLD HER ABOUT MY DAUGHTERS STORY. WHAT MAKES ME SO UPSET, IS THAT SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS ON MEDICAD, AND HE WAS THE ONLY O.B. WHO TOOK MEDICAID, IN OUR TOWN, SO SHE BASICLLY HAD NO CHOICE, BUT TO CHOOSE HIM.
SHE WAS A LITTLE OVER 8 1/2 MONTHS ALONG AND SHE WENT INTO LABOR. SHE GOES DOWN TO THE HOSPITAL, AND THIS STUPID DR, PUMPS HER UP WITH ALL THE MEDS TO STOP HER CONCRACTIONS. I DONT UNDERSTAND, WHY HE COULDNT JUST DELIVER HER? SHE WAS GETTING KINDA SCARED BY ALL THESE MEDS THEY WHERE GIVING HER TO STOP HER CONTRACTIONS. THEN SUDDENLY, THEY COULD HEAR THE BABIES HEART BEAT, BUT THEY COULD NOT GET THE BABY TO MOVE. THEY TRIED ALL THESE WAYS SHE SAID TO TRY TO GET HIM TO MOVE. THEY NEVER GOT THE BABY TO MOVE, BUT HE SENT HER HOME. BECAUSE HER CONTRACTIONS HAD STOPPED.
THE NEXT DAY, SHE DID'NT FEEL THE BABY MOVE ONCE. SO THAT NIGHT SHE GOES BACK TO THE HOSPITAL, TELLS THE DR, SHE HAS NOT FELT THE BABY MOVE ALLDAY. HE GRABBED, A HAND HELD HEART BEAT MONITOR TO LISTEN. HE WAS UNABLE TO HEAR A HEART BEAT, SO HE TOOK HER DOWN TO THE BIG ULTRASOUND MACHINE TO LISTEN, TO SEE IF HE COULD HEAR A HEART BEAT ON THIS MACHINE. HE FOUND OUT, THE BABY HAD DIED.
WHEN SHE TOLD ME THIS, MY HEART SANK. INSTANT RAGE WAS FLOWING THREW MY BODY.
THE WORST OF ALL OF THIS IS THAT, HE SAYS TO HER: I WANT YOU TO GO HOME AND DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO HAVE HIM VAGINALY OR HAVE A C-SECTION. THIS TOTALLY BLEW ME AWAY. CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN TO ME, WHY WOULD A DR. SEND A MOM HOME, KNOWING HER BABY IS DEAD IN SIDE OF HER. TO GO HOME AND DECIDE HOW SHE WANTS TO HAVE HIM. I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE, HOW SHE FELT, KNOWING THIS. THIS WOULD MESS UP ANY MOMS HEAD. SHE LOOKED UP AT ME, WITH TEARS ROLLING DOWN, AND SAID TO ME: DENISE, YOU MAY THINK I SICK AND DAMENTED, BUT I WAITED A DAY. SHE SAID SHE JUST WANTED TO FEEL HIM IN HER TUMMY. THIS WAS JUST BREAKING MY HEART, I CANT EVEN TELL YOU HOW MUCH. I PUT BOTH HANDS ON EACH SIDE OF HER FACE, PULLED HER FACE UP SO SHE WAS LOOKING AT ME. AND I TOLD HER THAT I DIDNT THINK THAT WAS SICK OR DEMENTED. I TOLD HER, THAT WHAT HE DID WAS SO WRONG, TO SEND YOU HOME KNOWING THIS.
THAT FOLLOWING DAY, SHE WENT INTO LABOR ON HER ON AND HAD HIM.
NOW, THERE WAS KNOW DOUBT IN MY MIND AT ALL, ABOUT GETTING A LAWYER. I WANTED HIS LICENSE PULLED.
WELL, IT BREAKS MY HEART TO SAY, THAT I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM THE LAWYER LAST WEEK. HE SOUNDED SO UPSET ON THE PHONE. HE EXPLAINED TO ME THAT HE JUST GOT THE REPORT BACK FROM THERE DR. AND HE SAID, THE REASON THIS HAPPENED WAS BECAUSE OF MY DAUGHTER'S AGE. THAT IS SUCH CRAP, THE LAWYER EVEN AGREED. I HAD HER WHEN I WAS YOUNGER THEN SHE WAS. I HEARD OF TONS OF GIRLS 11-12-13 WHO HAVE BABIES. MY DAUGHTER IS A PRETTY GOOD SIZED GAL. SHE HAD THE BODY OF A WOMEN, SHE MATURED EARLY IN LIFE. I COULD'T BELIEVE THIS. THE LAWYER APOLIGIZED OVER AND OVER. HE TOLD ME THAT HE HAD TO GO OFF OF WHAT THIS DR. SAID.
HE'S SENDING ME COPIES OF ALL THE MEDICAL RECORDS THAT THEY GATHERED UP. AND ADVISED ME TO GET ANOTHER LAWYER IMMEDIATLY.
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO. IF I SHOULD GET ANOTHER LAWYER OR NOT. I'M REALLY CONFUSED, AND UPSET
THE LAWYER TOLD ME IN CONVIDENCE, THAT THIS DR. HAS THE MOST INFENT MORTALATY RATE, OUT OF ALL THE O.B.'S IN TOWN. THE DR, HAS DONE MORE C-SECTIONS THEN VAGINAL DELEVERIES.
HE ONLY BEEN A DR FOR THREE YEARS. THIS IS UNREAL. AND NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO NAIL THIS DR YET. I'M SO DISGUSTED TO EVEN THINK THAT A BUY OFF WENT DOWN. BUT I THINK THATS WHAT HAPPENED, AND THATS WHY HE WAS TELLING ME THESE THINGS IN CONVIDENCE.
HES HEAD STONE FINALLY GOT PUT IN FEW DAYS LATER. I DID'NT THINK IT WOULD HIT ME AS HARD AS IT DID. WHEN I FINALLY GOT THE NERVE TO WALK UP TO HIS STONE. I JUST DROPPED TO MY KNEES, AND BAWLED. SEEING HIS HEADSTONE, IS FELT SO FINAL, I DONT KNOW IF I CAN EVEN PUT IT INTO WORDS. AND WHAT KILLS ME THAT MOST, IS THAT I COULD'T EVEN GET JUSTICE DONE IN MY GRANDSONS BEHALF.
MY HEART IS IN SO MUCH PAIN RIGHT NOW, IT HURTS ME TO EVEN TAKE A BREATH.
