Heart surgery gone wrong. PLEASE HELP IS RECOVERY POSSIBLE?
My mother went into the hospital with chest pains on july 10th of this year. She is 48 years old The doctors said she would need heart surgery asap. . I came form out of state right when I heard. The docs said everything should go routine and she should be out in a week. When the heart surgery was over we waited for her to awake. We asked her doctors if everything went okay they had no answers. I stayed in town for a month and she still wasnt waking up. We were soon told she was allergic to the heparin and one doctor said she may have suffered one or two strokes. The next day we were then told by her main doctor that she had atleast seven strokes on every part of her brain, and had to go on dialisis for weeks. I had to get back to work so I left after a month so depressed. She awoke after a little over a month, and was almost immediatly sent to a nursing home. About a month into her being in the nursing home I came to visit her in the home. I was very kind to the staff and grateful, but I was also shocked at her condition. She had bedsores everywhere, her feet were stiffened from the lack of mandatory physical therapy. She cant move because of the strokes. It would take even when I was there atleast 20 minutes to get a nurse there when she would start choking one time they never came. She had finally been given a trake so we could hear her slightly and she would complain about pain in her chest trouble breathing ect. They said her numbers were fine. When I took a look at her chest where the surgery was performed I saw a bone deep wound and it looked so painful. They would not give her pain meds if we werent thier either. I begged that they look at it, finally they let a doctor look at it and he found mrsa numerous infections and blood once again filling her lungs. He said she would have to go back to her hospital. I was so greatful I was there or they might never have checked. The hospital is great so I was happy that they were taking her again, thats the only place where recovery seems possible. When she was brought back to the hospital they could not believe the neglect from the nursing home. But after a few days they said there was nothing more they could do for her she would have to go back to the nursing home. They let her go to another nursing home thankfully. Right after the paramedics who brought her to the new nursing home left, blood began pouring from her mouth. The new nursing home could not believe the hospital would bring her here in that shape. They said her shape was so bad and only a real hospital could help her, her lungs were filled with blood. The the ambulance ride alone irrated things. She was rushed right back to her hospital. After a few hours the hospital rushed her right back to the nursing home, not even letting her get a good nights sleep. This new nursing home is a little better, but I know that a recovery is only possible in a hospital. At the first nursing home her roommate said that she would press her call button and the nurse would come and take her call remote away and never ask what she needed since she couldnt talk. Even at this nursing home when I am there and the nurses dont know I am there when I press the call button it takes forever and sometimes they turn the call light off and never come. This last visit I had with her at her new nursing home she was worse than ever. She we learned can barely see or hear now. Her vocal cords are paralized and so is her stomach. She cant even have water so when I wipe her face with a wet rag she bites the rag sucking any water she can get out of it. It is so sad I cant believe this happens to people. The hospital is great and there seems so much hope when shes there. Any advice would help, things get worse now everyday for a while things would get slightly better every week not anymore. I just know one of her wishes long ago was to never be in this shape and living till she dies is so important. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF SHE WILL FULLY EVER RECOVER? I dont mind visiting her or bathING her but it breaks her heart and her spirit. If this is how she will be forever I sometimes wonder if she should have went quick from a massive heart attack that would have happened if the surgery wasnt performed. i WOULD TAKE HER OUT OF THESE HOMES BUT I DONT HAVE THE MONEY FOR A FEEDING MACHINE, A TRAKE, OR A BREATHING MACHINE.
Thanks everyone for your great answers all of them were truthful loving and very helpful. I will contact a lawyer not for the money though just to make sure she gets good care while shes with us. But I heard many lawyers dont want to touch these cases against hospital or meds. I also looked into heparin after I found out about the strokes and saw many lawyers that want you to call them ONLY if it was in january or Feb of this year because the Heparin was tainted, and now I read April and May was tainted to but not July she was just allergic but all of her symptoms were that of tainted Heperin. I swear all blood thinners are toxic the more I look into Heparin or any blood thinner even w/out it being tainted it is a lethal killer it seems. My bro also has health problems from our bad genes and he got blood thinner and we looked it up and it was an old rat poison that they became immune to and then found it to be a good blood thinner.
No my real mother died she was never there but it was sad. The person who I am writting about is my aunt who raised my 4 siblings and I are whole lives single handedly thats why I refer to her as my mother because I prolly love her more than a mother shes aunt mom and dad to me. I am going to see her now they are saying she has to go back on dialisis.