Woman Becomes Quadruple Amputee After Giving Birth...

[thunderkitty]

Has anyone seen this yet?!...:

[Melissa_RFC]

OMG!!!! That is one of the most scary things I've ever heard of.....good reminder though. So so sad for that mother and family though.

[tash11]

yeah, I heard about that just before my birth and I was sooooo happy to be having a home birth.

[EmmaJean]

WHAT????!!!! That is horrible.... Wouldn't her husband have to consent to such a surgery? I am sick from reading about that..... I knew I shouldn't have clicked on that link! Now I won't be able to get that out of my head....

The horrors that are performed on "patients" in the name of "medicine" and "health" is appauling.... And even MORE so for pregnant and laboring mothers.

[Mynn]

Follow up:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/14895108.htm

Questions over how a woman contracted a flesh-eating bacteria that caused her to lose her arms and legs have led to a court dispute over a hospital's patient records.

A judge has ordered Orlando Regional Healthcare System Inc. to release the records of any other patients who had similar diagnoses as Claudia Mejia, 24. Mejia contracted the bacteria in April after giving birth to a healthy boy at one of the company's hospitals in Longwood.

"We have spent hundreds of hours investigating this case," Hurt said. "We cannot find any other person in proximity to her with strep A."

[MamaTaraX]

Sweet holy #@%(*#W(*%%#(!!!!!!!!!!
From my DH: "That would be one hell of a lawsuit!" and "talk about giving your right leg for a healthy baby!"
From me: "Reason #2509949 to stay the heck away froma hsopital to give birth!"

I would be mad, sad, wow. I don't even know. That is so beyond horrible. That is devestating

Namaste, Tara

[lorijds]

Poor mama! How horrible for the entire family--it should be this awesome time, and here you are, having to deal with this surreal, awful situation.

Thing is, this bacteria lives everywhere, all the time. She could have just as easily gotten this somewhere else. It could have been on her skin when she entered the hospital. Yes, of course you are more likely to get a resistent bug in the hospital, no question about it. But in my experience working in the medical floor of a hospital (where these cases often get treated), only about a fourth of the people with this or a similar type of bacterial infection acquired it in a health care setting. The one I remember most is the guy who cut his finger on a piece of coral in his fish tank when he was cleaning it out. 24 hours later he lost his hand. Another guy had a spider bite that got infected with a horrible staph infection--totally community acquired. Some people have no idea how they got it.

My heart goes out to her and her family. I can't even imagine what they are going through right now.

[cfiddlinmama]

WOW :

[eloquence]

[doula and mom]

That is so incredible sad and heartbreaking :

And also makes me glad I'm going to have a homebirth (someday in the future).

[Peppamint]

I read about it right after it happened. SO sad.

Because of it... she lost her reproductive system and all four limbs. She cannot snuggle the children she has, nor bear any more children.

[arlecchina]

thats horrible O.o they lied to her, I believe. I worked in a nursing home and while that disease was rare, it was not unheard of, I knew one lady got it from being in the hospital, her side looked like a shark got hold of it, it took about 6 months but it did clear up. what's this they're saying that it "wouldnt respond"? in all four limbs? I dont believe it. at all.

[Peppamint]

they took too long in figuring out what was going on... she had early signs, like a rash but they blamed it on the sheets. They did a hysterectomy thinking it was something involving her reproductive system but it had already spread to all of her extremities.

It sounds like they really dropped the ball.