This DOES happen, it happened to me. No anesthesiologist will admit it becuase they don't ever see patients after they maim them, and it's hard to find a lawyer the way this disease works. It has ruined my life. I was a happy, busy corporate lawyer, the breadwinner of our family, and a botched epidural (and/or blood patch to treat the subsequent spinal headache) with my second son changed my life forever. Worse, this is progressive so it's not as if the damage is done and you learn to deal. You watch yourself get worse every day and live with fear of how bad you're going to get. 2 neurologists have finally admitted (although they won't write it down on a chart or anything) that it's arachnoiditis.
This happened to me at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia-supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the nation. And I'm married to a doctor who was working there at the time- so I thought I was getting the best care possible. Nope. They botched it so bad my dural sac was filled with blood (they did an MRI a week after labor when I could barely move that showed a subdural hematoma and blood collected at the base of my spine). An epidural in the wrong hands will devistate your central nervous system. I wish I'd understood all this before. I know it rarely ahppens (thank God, for all those who this has not happened to). but it CAN and DOES happedn. Oh, and the epidural never worked anyway- I felt every bit of labor, and then was left with progressive pain and weakness so bad some days I don't want to live anymore.
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This DOES happen, it happened to me. No anesthesiologist will admit it becuase they don't ever see patients after they maim them, and it's hard to find a lawyer the way this disease works. It has ruined my life. I was a happy, busy corporate lawyer, the breadwinner of our family, and a botched epidural (and/or blood patch to treat the subsequent spinal headache) with my second son changed my life forever. Worse, this is progressive so it's not as if the damage is done and you learn to deal. You watch yourself get worse every day and live with fear of how bad you're going to get. 2 neurologists have finally admitted (although they won't write it down on a chart or anything) that it's arachnoiditis.
This happened to me at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia-supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the nation. And I'm married to a doctor who was working there at the time- so I thought I was getting the best care possible. Nope. They botched it so bad my dural sac was filled with blood (they did an MRI a week after labor when I could barely move that showed a subdural hematoma and blood collected at the base of my spine). An epidural in the wrong hands will devistate your central nervous system. I wish I'd understood all this before. I know it rarely ahppens (thank God, for all those who this has not happened to). but it CAN and DOES happedn. Oh, and the epidural never worked anyway- I felt every bit of labor, and then was left with progressive pain and weakness so bad some days I don't want to live anymore.
May 17, 2010 - 5:52pmThis Comment
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