Posted by Melanie on 7/02/15

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So I was 4 months pregnant when I had a routine urine test
that showed an abnormal amount of protein. The doctor told
me I should have a amnio test done because he thought my
baby might have down syndrome. I did the test, two weeks
later I start leaking the amnio fluid. Went to the hospital
on 3 seperate occasions, because I didn't feel right, they
sent me home telling me its just urine. Was a waitress, go
back to work, and I start hemorrhaging at work. Go to the
hospital, they tell me I have to stay, my baby was breech,
had 15% chance of survival, and no fluid. So I said I tried
to tell you 3 times about the fluid, they said one drop of
urine mixed with amnio fluid will just appear to be urine.
A month and a half later I'm still in the hospital, going
into labor in the early hours of the morning, the
anesthesiologist is not there, but driving in fog from
selma, which is 15 to 20 min. away. Her heartbeat is slow,
there is no other anestheologist in the hospital, at all
that I knew of. They tell me she's dying, and they can't do
anything until the guy gets there. I tell them to do it
anyways, I didn't want her to die. Her chances were up to
50/50 because I was 5 and a half months at this point. They
give me a local, that only numbs the first couple of layers
of skin, and I had a c-section. Yes I felt everything, yes
it still is a traumatizing event haunts me. The guy shows
up when there pulling her out, I hear them saying she isn't
breathing get ready to resuscitate her, and then he puts me
out for them to stitch me up. The problem, I was too young
to understand what my rights were. I had signed a form
before the operation, and I thought I couldn't do anything
to them for what they did to me. Its a decision I regret
everyday. I was just grateful that she lived, and yes, she
lived. She's 17 now, she never had down syndrome. She
didn't escape untouched by this event, she has under
developed lungs from the premature labor. She is 17 now,
and she's always had learning disabilities, she is almost
blind on her left eye, and her spine is now beginning to
have scolisosis. I dont want her life to be so difficult,
and everything could have been prevented. The doctor was
wrong, the hospital was wrong, and it's 17 years later and
she still suffers. She was only 1 pound 11 ounces, she's so
petite, and fragile, shes only 92 pounds. Is it too late to
make they pay her back something for everything she's been
through? Sorry if I misspelled anything.

no anesthesia!, 7/02/15, by Melanie.

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