Baby dies in Brewster, my Preterm labor (why!), and Woman's botched c-section in Wenatchee...still needs lawyer
Friday, October 20, 2006 12:01 PM
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"loree baird"
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The other thing I never told anyone here about was the preterm labor I had...well, it was a month and a half before term and before I delivered. I do remember I wrote about severe back pain on one side of my back, inside, and how it was so bad I finally got a narcotics prescription...well I complained of this for a couple weeks, how it was increasing in intensity, to my midwife and doctor, and then I had to go to ER for back pain and in L&D they said I was having contractions. I think I told you it was brought on by stress, but I found out it was from an UNDIAGNOSED KIDNEY INFECTION. They took my urine, and then hooked me up to an IV and then later I found out what it was for, though the nurse did mention something about a kidney infection. I jsut didn't know that my symptoms of back pain were related. Well, within one week it was totally gone and vastly improved by a couple days. I told my midwife and doctro I though the back pain was from the kidney infec. and they both said the same thing, one after the other (probably talked to eachother first), "Oh, the baby's head must have changed position". but the baby's head had been engaged before then. they totally denied it was from the kidney infection and the doctor wanted to refill my narcotics but I didn't pick up the new one and turned down more, telling him the pain was gone and I didn't need them anymore. It was like he WANTED to give me the narcotics. But I only took them when I had the super bad back pain, because I didn't want to harm my baby. And then later he claims, along with the midwife, that I had a problem with narcotics (?!). I knew they were covering for eachother about the kidney infection, and stayed in their care because it was close to my due date and I didn't want to switch. Also, I figured it wasn't that big of a deal, because I KNEW even if they didn't want to admit it. But then it all got worse.
And they didn't want to test me for diabetes (even do a simple test with glucose) and didn't give me a third ultrasound for the choroid cysts in my baby's brain when it's indicated. I only had the one ultrasound at 18 weeks and one before it at 11 weeks. No one has checked for the cysts or anything since then because my son went to my primary doctor, who was always doing anything to keep me in his care, and always telling me to "trust" him. In the meantime, he's giving me narcotics for pelvic pain and not sending me to a specialist until i finally demanded, or just told him I was going to one, even without referral. After I said I was going to one, he tried to give me a referral to the woman who stitched me up at the hospital, or he said, his own OBGYN (the one for his wife). I said I wanted someone independant and he didn't like this. He covers the ass of the midwife and that midwife has only been in practice a year and is going to seriously hurt more people. I can promise you that. I heard a few things about her while I was pregnant but ignored it.
Yesterday I met a woman who maybe is connected to someone because I don't know who is who all the time, but she told me her friend was in labor for 4 days in a small town of Brewster and had damages like mine, AND her baby died from lack of oxygen. The midwife made everyone go out of the room, and refused to let go of control. I told this woman I wondered if it was that some midwives felt they had to "prove something" because they didn't have medical credentials like an OBGYN. Anyway, I gave the woman my number and her firend is looking for a lawyer in Seattle because no one in Brewster will give her records or confirm what her problems are. Even though they're really serious. She was medicated in an almost coma for 3 days because of the trauma of childbirth and I guess, this woman said, she's moved to Wenatchee now but is going to get independent evals by someone out of the area.
AND I know a lady just down my street, who is hispanic, who had a botched c-section. She has only been here for one year, from Mexico, and a doctor from the same clinic I used to go to, was her OBGYN. She spoke very little English, but told me that there was this doctor PLUS a hospital doctor and she doens't know who did the c-section, but it's been a year and she has severe pain constantly, and she showed me her scars. Not only does she have a scar from her waist up to her ribcage, she has one horizontal along her pubic line. Why two? and her stomach is doubled up and then just caves in to where the line is. It's like the scar was stitched up really tight and then the muscles and skin on either side of her abdomen puff out. It's hard to describe. But who is going to help HER?
I think someone from Seattle should work this whole area. All I have to do is walk a couple houses down my block to find someone with damages. Well, and I talk. And I ask questions. I ask a LOT of questions and that's how you hear about things.
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