Woman becomes quadruple amputee after giving birth

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Found this while surfing - it happened January of this year (I'm surprised this is the first I read of it - shouldn't it have played on major stations and newspapers for weeks?!)

 

Woman becomes quadruple amputee after giving birth

 

Sanford mother says she will never be able to hold

 

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"I want to know what happened. I went to deliver my baby and I came out like this," Mejia said.

 

Mejia said after she gave birth to Mathew last spring, she was kept in the hospital with complications. Twelve days after giving birth at Orlando Regional South Seminole hospital, she was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center where she became a quadruple amputee. Now she can not care for or hold her baby.

 

"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."

 

Her 7-year-old son, Jorge, asks his mother over and over what happened to her. Neither she nor her husband has the answer.

 

"I love her, so I'll always stick with her and take it a day at a time myself," said her husband, Tim Edwards.

 

The couple wants to know how she caught streptococcus, during labor or after. She doesn't know. She knows she didn't leave the hospital the same.

 

"And why, I want to know why this happened," she said.

 

Her attorney, Judy Hyman wrote ORHS a letter saying, according to the Florida statute, "The Patients Right To Know About Adverse Medical Incidents Act," the hospital must give her the records.

 

"When the statute is named 'Patients Right To Know,' I don't know how it could be clearer," Hyman said.

 

The hospital's lawyers wrote back, "Ms. Mejia's request may require legal resolution." In other words, according to their interpretation of the law, Mejia has to sue them to get information about herself.

 

That's the sticking point, the interpretation of the Patients Right To Know act, a constitutional amendment Florida voters passed a little more than a year ago.

 

Mejia's other attorney, E. Clay Parker, said the hospital is not following the law

 

"We were forced to file this and ask a judge to interpret the constitutional amendment and do right," Parker said.

 

Mejia hopes the right thing is done. She said not knowing exactly why it happened is unbearable. She only hopes she'll be able to soon answer her little boy's question, 'What happened?'

 

"He told me everyday, 'What happened,' and I don't have any answers for that," she said.

 

ORMC said Mejia is requesting information on if there were other patients or someone on her floor with the streptococcus. They said, if they release that to her, that would be a violation of other patients' rights.

 

1. Pregnant woman goes in to deliver baby.

2. Woman gets anesthetized.

3. Woman wakes up with no arms or legs.

4. Hospital refuses to tell woman why her limbs were amputated.

5. Woman tries to invoke "Patient Right to Know Act."

6. Hospital tells woman she's not authorized to read her own medical file.

 

 

Oh my God! I'm speechless and horrified!

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

flesh eating bacteria?

 

Subhanallah.