Woman gives birth; doctors cut off all her limbs by mistake

[Bill3000]

Am I sick for laughing at the thread as soon as I saw the title?

[Mao]

Oh god. You disgust me and society in general. Go crawl back into your hole. =P

[Dr Strangelove]

Toxic shock syndrome secondary to stretococcal infection can indeed occur outside of hospitals. In fact it first came to public attantion when women using certain types of tampons began dying from it more than 20 years ago. The threat of rampant lawsuits forced the tampon industry to change the way they made tampons.

Thinking about this case I wonder whether the infection was contracted during birthing. Streptococcal bacteria generally grow very rapidly. It would be more likely for the infection to manifest within a few days, not nearly 2 weeks if the bacteria entered the body during delivery. It might be possible that she developed a very small abcess that initially was walled off and grew slowly eventiually breaking into the blood stream, but it's more likely that something happened in the weeks after giving birth. I'd like to know if she had persistent bleeding or pain.

[Sava]

wow

if I woke up a quadruple amputee,

I would just cry and ask every person I saw to kill me

[mrmitchell]

Well at least better she wake up armless than dead...

[notyoueither]

No arms and no legs?

I'd rather not wake up.

[Asher]

I would become a porn star. You could do so many new positions.

[laurentius]

Guys guys, look at the bright side. Now she can have those cool robotic arms with all the gadgets installed to her torso!

wolverine-blades, miniguns, rocket launchers, coffee maker, calculator...

[notyoueither]

You could do porn in water, under the name of Side Show Bob.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Toxic shock syndrome secondary to stretococcal infection can indeed occur outside of hospitals. In fact it first came to public attantion when women using certain types of tampons began dying from it more than 20 years ago. The threat of rampant lawsuits forced the tampon industry to change the way they made tampons.

Thinking about this case I wonder whether the infection was contracted during birthing. Streptococcal bacteria generally grow very rapidly. It would be more likely for the infection to manifest within a few days, not nearly 2 weeks if the bacteria entered the body during delivery. It might be possible that she developed a very small abcess that initially was walled off and grew slowly eventiually breaking into the blood stream, but it's more likely that something happened in the weeks after giving birth. I'd like to know if she had persistent bleeding or pain.

How the hell do tampons cause the rapid growth of Streptococcus?

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Odin
How the hell do tampons cause the rapid growth of Streptococcus?

Isn't it Staphylococcus bacteria that cause this?
Anyway, my guess is that the bugs settle down inside the nice cozy tampon where they can live a happy life, feeding on menstrual blood while being relatively protected from the immune system

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Mao
Is it possible that she got the infection from someone at the hospital? Would that qualify as negligence? Is that enough of a basis for a lawsuit?

There are all kinds of possible infections at hospitals -- thats why proper precautions for surgery need to be followed.

It is possible but not not necessary for there to be negligence here. Bacteria is everywhere and sometimes infections occurr even if all proper preventative measures are taken. ( I once worked on a medical negligence case where a hospital was found negligent since the nurces did not notice or inform the doctors of a surface skin infection that should have caused them, to delay surgery-- The docs were not liable since the infction was covered and not visible in the area where they operated)

The OP is BS-- it seems she knew what was happening . . . Heck to be in hospital 12 days after a birt means there is something serious going on. For a vaginal birth you can be out in a day or two and even caesarians are out quicker than that

[Winston]

Wasn't it Steve Martin who wanted to be reborn a tampon?

[Last Conformist]

Gotta admire her energy. If I woke up with all limbs amputated, I'd be too depressed to launch any frivolous lawsuits.

[rah]

Originally posted by Winston
Wasn't it Steve Martin who wanted to be reborn a tampon?

That was prince charles.