77GreenMachine
Phillip Talton
- Joined
- Mar 30, 2010
- Location
- Mayodan, NC.
Cliff notes:
Wife had planned surgery and hospital stay.
She fell post surgery with the help of 2 nursing staff. She now has a fractured pelvis.
Do I lawyer up?
Full details:
Due do an endometrium cyst, my wife had a planned full abdominal hysterectomy Monday morning February 3rd. This was done at the Wesley Long Surgery Center in Greensboro, and the plan was that she stay the night there for recovery and go home Tuesday at 9am the following morning.
Surgery went as planned with no surprises. I went to retrieve our kids that evening and came back home with plans to get Lindsay the next morning. At 11:30pm I got a call from the Nurse saying that 2 nurses were helping my wife walk to the bathroom when she passed out causing her to fall and hit her head on the railing beside the toilet. They ordered a CT Scan to have everything checked out. She said they got her back up and she blacked out again as she was getting back into the bed. By now my wife is calling me so I take her call. She explains the same thing, but says her back and leg hurt too. She said she told them that but the only checked her head.
She has historically always had an extremely bad reaction to anesthesia and this was made abundantly clear prior, and extra steps were supposed to be taken. Still, as expected she was extremely nauseous and throwing up periodically, from after surgery until 4am Tuesday morning. She was throwing up before and after the fall(s)
Her Dr. came by at 7:30am and said she needed more time and not to send her home at 9am, to give her more time. At 10am we try walking and her leg hurts in the groin/hip area. They say it’s most likely a pulled muscle from falling and tensing up, as well as pain from the hysterectomy.
At 11:30am she managed to walk out into the hall, with plenty of pain and struggle but that was to be expected we suppose. They send her on home at noon and we get her into the bed for some rest.
The next day there was no improvement on this hip/back/leg groin area pain and my wife is describing to me sharp pain, not the vagina but beside it and deep within. Having had a few blown out knees over the years I knew what she was trying to explain.
I call her doctors office and they say get her to the ER immediately.
I will spare you the details of the most horrendous 12 hours of waiting at the ER, where people literally
in the floor and throwing up, passing out, etc. it was literally HELL on earth.
Xray and CT Scan confirm she has 2 fractures to the pelvis. They said it should heal but she needs rest for 6 weeks. She only has minor discomfort from the actual surgery. Mostly just itching around the incision and soreness. To be expected.
But her back and hip area are hurting bad. I never seen her in pain like what this caused. Ever. She’s making progress and with my help can shuffle around a bit.
So my question is, do I lawyer up? I have questioned this for the past couple days. Which have all been an absolute exhausting blur, as my house delivered yesterday and I’ve gotten very little sleep since this all happened and now I’m setting the house, alone as you read this. I needed to get this out so I’ll have advice when I’m done.
Recalling these details above again and recalling more with my wife it is all very difficult and disturbing.
Wife had planned surgery and hospital stay.
She fell post surgery with the help of 2 nursing staff. She now has a fractured pelvis.
Do I lawyer up?
Full details:
Due do an endometrium cyst, my wife had a planned full abdominal hysterectomy Monday morning February 3rd. This was done at the Wesley Long Surgery Center in Greensboro, and the plan was that she stay the night there for recovery and go home Tuesday at 9am the following morning.
Surgery went as planned with no surprises. I went to retrieve our kids that evening and came back home with plans to get Lindsay the next morning. At 11:30pm I got a call from the Nurse saying that 2 nurses were helping my wife walk to the bathroom when she passed out causing her to fall and hit her head on the railing beside the toilet. They ordered a CT Scan to have everything checked out. She said they got her back up and she blacked out again as she was getting back into the bed. By now my wife is calling me so I take her call. She explains the same thing, but says her back and leg hurt too. She said she told them that but the only checked her head.
She has historically always had an extremely bad reaction to anesthesia and this was made abundantly clear prior, and extra steps were supposed to be taken. Still, as expected she was extremely nauseous and throwing up periodically, from after surgery until 4am Tuesday morning. She was throwing up before and after the fall(s)
Her Dr. came by at 7:30am and said she needed more time and not to send her home at 9am, to give her more time. At 10am we try walking and her leg hurts in the groin/hip area. They say it’s most likely a pulled muscle from falling and tensing up, as well as pain from the hysterectomy.
At 11:30am she managed to walk out into the hall, with plenty of pain and struggle but that was to be expected we suppose. They send her on home at noon and we get her into the bed for some rest.
The next day there was no improvement on this hip/back/leg groin area pain and my wife is describing to me sharp pain, not the vagina but beside it and deep within. Having had a few blown out knees over the years I knew what she was trying to explain.
I call her doctors office and they say get her to the ER immediately.
I will spare you the details of the most horrendous 12 hours of waiting at the ER, where people literally
in the floor and throwing up, passing out, etc. it was literally HELL on earth. Xray and CT Scan confirm she has 2 fractures to the pelvis. They said it should heal but she needs rest for 6 weeks. She only has minor discomfort from the actual surgery. Mostly just itching around the incision and soreness. To be expected.
But her back and hip area are hurting bad. I never seen her in pain like what this caused. Ever. She’s making progress and with my help can shuffle around a bit.
So my question is, do I lawyer up? I have questioned this for the past couple days. Which have all been an absolute exhausting blur, as my house delivered yesterday and I’ve gotten very little sleep since this all happened and now I’m setting the house, alone as you read this. I needed to get this out so I’ll have advice when I’m done.
Recalling these details above again and recalling more with my wife it is all very difficult and disturbing.
