Somebody, please help us..no price tag on my husband.

[blazinfilly]

My husband had gallbladder surgery that went south about 4 days after. The clips had came off and he suffered from a bile leak. He was hospitalized for that and an ERCP was performed to place a stint in the duct. Another month went by then he suffered jaundice and high liver counts that required hi to be hospitalized again for 2 weeks, again another ERCP performed with a placement of two stints. He came home for 1 week still in sever pain, went back into hospital, again a ERCP was performed to remove the same stints that was just put in 1 week before. He was in hospital for 10 days that time, Docotrs can't explain what was wrong, just that he was a complicated case. During one of the ERCP's he was oversedated and procedure waws stopped, they had to turn him over to perform bag ventlation for 4 mins (so they say) then they was able to start procedure again after he was stableized. I remember the day that this was done, no one told us what happened, I read it in the records, it took longer then it had before and when he was brought to the floor he was severly sedated, the nurses that was working the floor ran us out of the room for awhile, they said they had to get him stable before we could get in to see him. Through the other ERCP's it didn't take but about 1 to 1 1/2 hours then he was alert and talking to me, not this time. He was confused, his memory was affected, he was in and out for over a day. afterwords he remained confussed and had memory loss, short term was affected severly. His balance was off, he would fall stumble. About 2 weeks later I stared noticing twitching, sleeping a lot more, slured speech more memory loss, this was mild at first, something that I would just pass off as maybe just a reacton to something. Then the twiching became worse as time went by, lasting longer, we went to local E.R, they claimed it was a reaction to to much Phenergan, these spells would last for over 2 hours. I took him twice in one week for the same thing, we was told the same thing. Then, after givingup on the local we went to another facility, there they sent us to have some testing done over night at the hospital. The next morning the in-hospital doctor told my husband it was all in his head, that he needed a physsocigist. Frustrated, we had virtually given up on anyones help, when these spells happend he wouldn't let me take him to hospital. They got even worse, he would loose conscience, lasting for about 30 mins the first time. I wanted to take him to hospital then, he said they won't do anthing. I went along with him, but told him if it happend again, I would call the EMS, The next day, same thing, he was out for about 10 mins, no response, I called 911. The EMS Tech's couldn't get any response either, they had him airlifted from home to the bigger hospital 35 miles away. When he arrived he started regaining, confussed, didn';t know where he was at, what had happend, he never knew he was airlifted. When the ER doc read the past notes from the in-house doctor, we was brushed off, no test, no bloodwrok , nothing but a $4,000 ride in a chopper that he didn't remember. again, we was told all in the head. These spells turned into seizure like activity that happend everyday, two or more times a day, it became like 2nd nature to us, but I and veryone around us knew something wasn't right, there was something wrong somewhere. I did a lot of research and found a neurologist that specialized in movement disorders and seizures. Our first visit, we was expecting the same results, the doctor told us that he didn't belive it to be all in his head, but real. After several meds and several med changes, my husband started doing a little better, not much, but at this point any was great! Long story short, he was suicidal from depression (because of loosing his job and being sick for over a year) he now takes 8 differnt meds several times a day just to have a little functionabilty. He still can't work, still has difficulties doing little things around home. I have to give him his meds, he can't keep up with what to take. I had to get a power of attorney to handle any legal things that may come up for him as he has a hard time remembering. This happened to begin with April 2, 2007. He is still sick today. Please consider us in helping make things right. I feel that is he hadn't had the gallbladder surgery to begin with he wouldn't be sick like this, he would still have a job, we would not be in finacial hardship, loosing everything we have, because something went wrong somewhere.Thank you for taking the time to read our story.

[judg4]

-- It is certainly possible you have a case based on what you say here; you should take a brief description of these events as well as your medical records to a malpractice attorney and see if the attorney thinks you have a claim; often you need to contact several attorneys to find one to take the case; the review of your case and records is often free and then they will normally take the case on a contingency fee basis if they think you can win; you would pay only if they collect for you.

World Law attorneys could also become directly involved--email them on their home page.