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 Woman wakes up after childbirth with no arms and no legs

 

A new mother states that she will literally never be able to hold her newborn baby after the Orlando hospital where she gave birth performed a life-altering surgery that left her a multiple amputee, seemingly for no reason.

 
"They amputated both her arms and legs and will not explain why..."
 
At this time the woman claims that the hospital will not tell her why they removed both of her arms and legs during childbirth. Complaints have been filed against the hospital, Orlando Regional Healthcare Systems, because they will not tell her exactly what happened. The hospital maintains the woman wants to know information that would violate other patients' rights.
 
The event happened over 8 months ago. Claudia Mejia, the mother of the newborn child and victim of the surgery, was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando where her arms and legs were amputated. After the surgeries she was told she had streptococcus, a flesh eating bacteria, and toxic shock syndrome, but no further explanation was given.
 
The hospital claims that if she wants to find out exactly what happened, she would have to sue them.
 
"I want to know what happened. I went to deliver my baby and I came out like this," Mejia said.
 
"I 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 other child asks her mother what happened to her and no one can answer the question. Her husband a devoted man says he's sticking with her. "I love her, so I'll always stick with her and take it a day at a time myself," said her husband, Tim Edwards.
 
Her attorney, Judy Hyman wrote the hospital 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. The hospitals response? "Ms. Mejia's request may require legal resolution."
 
It is being considered that Mrs. Mejia caught the skin eating disease streptococcus while in the hospital, contracting it from another patient or someone on her floor that already had the disease, the hospital is saying that if they release any information about it to her they would be violating the other patient's rights.
 
An unbelievable story.


Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/102835#ixzz2j9Zgmd8H
 

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■■■■ me! I reckon if they whip your limbs off without asking, you just might be owed an explaination! And an absolutely ■■■■■■■ huge compo payout. Bill Gates bank balance type huge!

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Something like 20,000 people a year die in us hospitals for incorrect drug treatments. Place is insane.

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I'm going to self diagnose from now on.

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Something like 20,000 people a year die in us hospitals for incorrect drug treatments. Place is insane.

Figures. Before he moved here for good, my son (dual US/Aus national) used to fly here from LA for anything surgical. Safer and cheaper.

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I'm going to self diagnose from now on.


Prostate checks too?
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Hasn't got a leg to stand on

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I dont think her case will stand up in court

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She should be thankful that she got down to her pre-pregnancy weight so quickly.

Women will do anything to get out of doing housework after having a baby.

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I say women won't do anything to get out of doing housework after having a baby.

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She'll be saying the child costs an arm and a leg...twice.

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Far canal!

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Follow up on the article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/05/20/florida-woman-who-lost-arms-legs-during-birth-works-for-answers/

 

Tl;dr- She caught the flesh eating bacteria from another patient, needed to amputate to save life. Went home, partner said do it and he will marry her. Still inconclusive evidence how and why this happened. Arms and legs amputated. 

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Response to article: This will happen a lot more under obamacare…

…wtf?

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Follow up on the article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/05/20/florida-woman-who-lost-arms-legs-during-birth-works-for-answers/

 

Tl;dr- She caught the flesh eating bacteria from another patient, needed to amputate to save life. Went home, partner said do it and he will marry her. Still inconclusive evidence how and why this happened. Arms and legs amputated. 

What?

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To be fair, group A strep is pretty rapid. Heard of cases from just a small scratch to dead in under 24 hours. \\

A clinical microbiology lecturer once told a story of a man who worked on the oil rigs, scratch from something. Hospital 2 hours later, she got the sample and by the time she made the diagnosis he was in surgery getting an amputation. Within 14 hours he was dead. So as annoyed as she may be (and rightly so) she is lucky she is still alive.

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To be fair, group A strep is pretty rapid. Heard of cases from just a small scratch to dead in under 24 hours. \\

A clinical microbiology lecturer once told a story of a man who worked on the oil rigs, scratch from something. Hospital 2 hours later, she got the sample and by the time she made the diagnosis he was in surgery getting an amputation. Within 14 hours he was dead. So as annoyed as she may be (and rightly so) she is lucky she is still alive.

That is your opinion. Personally I'd be ■■■■■■■ furious and scrambling as hard as I could for the exit. And there would be absolutely not 1 grain of "like" for the doctors involved at all. In fact there would more than likely be massive hatred.

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Just showed this to a nurse who's 30 weeks.

Which in hindsight was a bit tactless.

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To be fair, group A strep is pretty rapid. Heard of cases from just a small scratch to dead in under 24 hours. \\

A clinical microbiology lecturer once told a story of a man who worked on the oil rigs, scratch from something. Hospital 2 hours later, she got the sample and by the time she made the diagnosis he was in surgery getting an amputation. Within 14 hours he was dead. So as annoyed as she may be (and rightly so) she is lucky she is still alive.

That is your opinion. Personally I'd be ******* furious and scrambling as hard as I could for the exit. And there would be absolutely not 1 grain of "like" for the doctors involved at all. In fact there would more than likely be massive hatred.

 

I don't disagree with that. I'd probably be pretty angry too and certainly wanting compensation (which I'm assuming she will get quite a bit).

 

However, it's not the first time it ever been misdiagnosed or simply missed (there was a similar case last year where a woman who just gave birth was coming home from hospital she noticed a bruise on her leg, turned out to be group A strep as well), and unfortunately it won't be the last. On that account is what I meant she is lucky to be alive.  

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Follow up on the article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/05/20/florida-woman-who-lost-arms-legs-during-birth-works-for-answers/

 

Tl;dr- She caught the flesh eating bacteria from another patient, needed to amputate to save life. Went home, partner said do it and he will marry her. Still inconclusive evidence how and why this happened. Arms and legs amputated. 

What?

 

iirc he said get her limbs amputated and they can married after. So she did.