Bereavement
Related: About this forumSat down with the attorneys over Liz.
Yesterday before I went into work they advised me that they would not recommend pursuing trying to prove negligence on the part of the medical provider. They explained too me they understand my questions in asking if they the medical provider screwed up , when I called like five days in telling them that the antibiotic is not working can you send the nurse practitioner out again maybe to look at my wife again maybe take blood.
I was informed after they consulted the staff by phone with my wifes physician I was told Liz has only been on antibiotic for like five days and continue antibiotic it was for like ten days if you feel shes in danger go to the E.R. or to call back on Monday to schedule appointment when called Monday I was told they can see her in home the following Monday.
So the attorneys pointed out that yes Liz knew understood what I was relaying to her what her Doc said. And she made the decision to just wait and see to see if antibiotic would kick the infection. I know now why she wanted to see if it would work she didnt want to be in hospital or rehab for like previous time 48 days combined hospital and rehab two years ago with Covid.
November is big month as in our biological sons birthday Elizabeths birthday she is a thanksgiving baby, I never grew tired of listening to her father tell the story of the day Liz was born on that day for thanksgiving he ate two hotdogs.
Elizabeth was conceived in Hawaii my father in law was on his R&R my mother in law flew to meet him for seven days. He said I headed back to Vietnam and she headed home carrying a baby we did not know. I loved that man deeply i strived to be the same father and husband as he was.
bucolic_frolic
(46,561 posts)Negligence is hard to prove. Funny how medical people are responsible until they're not because the patient was really the one making decisions. And every legal jurisdiction has gatekeepers for lawsuits. If you can't convince them something went wrong, no attorney will take the case. I suppose they have standards, but anything that made a stab at standard care is a pass. Medicine helps you until it doesn't.
3Hotdogs
(13,314 posts)rectangular. Her left iris was round, like everybody else. Right iris was almost squared at the bottom.
Lawyer says there isn't much in the way of compensation because she is old and wouldn't be using it for too long. (She was in her 70's. She lived to 98.)
We should have consulted a different lawyer.
2naSalit
(92,009 posts)Are not always helpful even when they are what you need. I have had, the last two times I had to take antibiotics, episodes of the antibiotics making me sicker through rejection.
This is serious. I took them and for about two or three days they seemed to help... then they didn't. Suddenly I couldn't eat, anything I did eat went right through me hardly digested and I ws in terrible stomach/intestinal pain as well. And the infection was not going away and started getting worse.
How is that? Some antibiotics will give the patient C. diff (also known as Clostridioides difficile or C. difficile) is a germ (bacterium) that causes diarrhea and colitis (an inflammation of the colon). It's estimated to cause almost half a million infections in the United States each year.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=c-diff
She might have suffered from this and it would have been negligent to not inquire about symptoms and test her for it even out of caution.
Just to let you know.