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On October 6th, 2021, Karen (my mother) went in for a renal artery stent due to both arteries being blocked over 70% (the right was at 91%, the left was just above 70%). Normally, these procedures go quickly and easily- and at first, we assumed that it had gone quickly and easily. Her surgeon’s team called me and informed me that everything had gone well.
We would soon find out that everything had not gone well. After my mother was released back to the Cath Lab’s recovery floor, she would begin to feel an intense, strange pain in her leg. As the hours passed, she would lose feeling in her foot. Her nurse at the time told her that nothing was wrong despite her complaints, and brushed it off as being sciatic nerve pain due to Karen laying on her back for six hours.
Karen was released the next day (October 7th, 2021) at 5 a.m. after my sister argued with the nursing staff to keep her until 5 a.m., rather than releasing her at midnight. We drove 2 hours to get home from the hospital, and the entire time, my mother was in pain- which isn’t normal after a stent. Discomfort is normal, but not being able to sit, stand, or lay down comfortably without feeling extreme discomfort is not normal. By 9:00 a.m., she called the Cath Lab and informed them of what was happening. They called her back shortly after and told her that she needs to get back down there as soon as possible, because their worst fear was happening: a clot was forming, and no one had caught this due to the negligence of a nurse.
My mother lost all feeling in her leg, and her foot began to turn purple- and the bottom of her foot began to turn black. For over 24 hours, a massive clot had been forming due to her surgeon admitting that he accidentally stitching her femoral artery closed- no artery was supposed to be stitched closed at all, only the skin. The femoral artery is the major artery that runs along the outside of the leg. Due to it being stitched closed, her leg received no blood flow for over 24 hours, causing thrombosis to set in. They feared that she would lose her foot, or possibly her leg from the knee down. Her surgeon was able to dissolve the clot over the next two days, but the damage had already been done- and more would come. For the next two weeks, a fever set in that would come and go, and her leg and foot swelled to almost twice it’s original size. Blisters formed on her leg and foot, and rather than treat them, the surgeon placed a compression sock over her foot and leg.
She was released to a rehabilitation center in this state on October 22nd, 2021, where she would be diagnosed (at the time) with cellulitis. They worked with her for the next week, before she was released to come home on October 29th. However, as of November 3rd, Home Health and Physical Therapy have declared her as being unable to walk at all on her right leg for the time being.
As of November 1st, 2021, she has been to a doctor at a clinic in town and was diagnosed with her blisters having turned necrotic. She will be seeing specialists in the coming weeks at a different hospital to treat both this, and the compartment syndrome that has set in in her right calve.
At the moment, I am the only one able to work in my house, due it being just myself and my mother here. I work part time at a college- and this is my only source of income. This page is to help us over the next few months while she is out of work, and we try to navigate this situation that we are now in, with bills being due and hospital bills starting to already come in, along with possible lawyer fees. Any contributions are greatly welcomed by our family, as are prayers. Please share this with your friends!
Thank you,
Melissa Hayden/fakexface
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