Re: THE PATIENT WHO REFUSED TO DIE. 08/01/08

obviouspuzzle@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

What do you do for a job? Risk Management? I am trying to tell my
story, sorry if I am not doing it in a manner that suits you. If it
makes you feel better to believe that I am clueless and the doctors
did the right thing then go on believing that. If you are trying to
discredit me I could not care less. I have suffered so much
humiliation and dehumanization not to mention outright threats that if
I did not have faith that the truth would come out one day I would
have cracked up years ago. Your little spewage is nothing compared to
what I have endured for over 11 years.

Right! From the tone of your post it seems that I'm also involved in this
conspiracy. Like I said earlier, you don't fool me.

I had perfect prenatal checkups performed by a licensed midwife. I
had to have MORE testing than usual because of my age. I also had
MORE testing than usual because routine midwifery prenatal care
requires more tests than OB/GYN routine care as far as I was told. .

Extra monitoring is usually indicated when one is concerned about the
placental position. Plus, advanced maternal age predisposes one to abnormal
placental positioning. But I'm sure you know all this.

I
had a sonogram showing my son's perfect body with the placenta
attached at the top of my uterus. My next prenatal appointment was to
be May 28th when I was to receive a rhogam shot, (I am O negative
blood type) along with regular measurements. I was supposed to get the
shot on May 20th when I was there for my regular prenatal class but
the midwife was running behind and suggested I come back the following
week.

How many sonograms did you have in total. Did you miss any of the scheduled
ones with the midwife?

The sonogram I supposedly got at Parkland shows the placenta
attached near the opening of my cervix.
This is all written in the
physician signed document report that I possess, (which just last
month I was told did not not exist.)

So what you're essentially suggesting is that your placenta was not
abnormally lying when you presented at ER, that you were not bleeding bright
red blood, that your water did not break, that an ultrasound scheduled was
cancelled by yourself, and this ghastly physician knocked-up a bogus report
out of thin air?

How on earth do you account for your symptoms, then?

"Ms. Stanbery, you did not have
a sonogram at Parkland, you were scheduled for one but you cancelled
it." I said, "I know I did not have a sonogram...I told ya'll that 11
years ago when I saw the bogus sonogram report in my records. I asked
back then for the sonogram film and was told all I had was a chest x-
ray in radiology.

Hang on, are you saying that you cancelled a sonogram that was indicated for
you? Why would you do something like that?

I was handed an empty film jacket and was then told
that the film was missing. I was alarmed when I saw the bogus sonogram
report because it said Barret had no kidneys and I knew he had kidneys
because they were seen on the sonogram ordered and performed at the
midwife clinic. The Parkland "privacy officer" tried to convince me
once again, (just a month ago) that I did not have a sonogram at
Parkland therefore I have no sonogram report.
I had to laugh...she
was not laughing. I laughed as I told her that she was mixing up her
lies and getting confused. I told her S-L-O-W-L-Y so she could
understand that I have the report of the sonogram which was NOT
performed which she is now saying was never performed due to
cancellation. She once again tried to tell me that I don't have what
I do have...I don't see what I do see. She asked me to bring it to
her, in fact I could mail it to make it easy on me. I just laughed
when she told me to bring it to her or mail it....OK I will get right
on that....AS IF.

Well, why didn't you send them a copy of the report? Perhaps it had a
reference number etc. on it that would have aided them to look into it
better and advise you?

I found medical studies that show fetuses with no brain or kidneys are
considered non-viable. One wonders what is considered O.K to do to a
non-viable fetus.

I had no bad symptoms until the very day I went to Parkland. I was
helping to build a fence and it was the first real hot day of the
summer. I did not feel right. I went in the house to cool off and
have a drink of water. I tried to lay down. I went back outside to
mix concrete in the wheelbarrow...I had to stop again.

Which babybook advised you to be building a fence and mixing concrete at the
time? Perhaps if you had not been doing any of the above you would have
just been fine, don't you think?

You're very intent on blaming others for what happened but are not prepared
to take any share of blame. Do you honestly think you had no role to play,
at all? Perhaps this is your way of dealing with the issue and guilt. This
is perfectly understandable, however, blaming others and trying to grab
money won't get you anywhere!! Your case has no merit, this is why no one
has taken it up. Has that ever occurred to you? I know you hate me for
telling you this but it's time you get a reality check!

I tried to eat
a bit of lunch...couldn't eat. I tried laying down again. Restless,
that is what I was. I became concerned because restless is bad in
animal behaviour which I DO know something about. I tried to relax
and do breathing exercises. By late afternoon I started to have a
twinge of cramps. I could not tell if they were stomach or uterine
related. I felt a bit ill.. it felt like menstrual cramps. I called
my midwife and told her that I had a slight spotting of brownish
colored discharge. She told me to take a warm bath and relax. She
said if the pain got worse or if I see red blood to go immediately to
the ER and don't stop to call her until I get there. The pain got
worse in spite of the bath and I begin to plan what to do.

It seems to me you actually realized the gravity of the symptoms.

I figured
out I was about 28 weeks pregnant and my baby books said that there
was a chance of survival at that age so I contemplated my options. I
live in a rural area. The closest 2 ER'S are about 25 minutes away in
two different directions.
I had recently read in the Dallas Morning News that Parkland had a
special unit called a NICU that saved babies that may have not lived
if they were not in a tertiary level 3 hospital and that preemies were
transported there from other hospitals that did not have these special
units. I remembered this pull-out special Sunday feature because it
pulled on my heart strings when I read it. The day I read it was the
first time I ever heard anything about preemies and I was shocked to
learn preemies were so prevelant. Like always, I thought of animals,
(my passion and education is about animals) and I thought something is
wrong with humans somehow because it is VERY RARE and VERY INDICATIVE
of bad environment or injury if a farm animal has a spontaneous early
delivery of a NORMAL fetus.


I made the decision at that time to go directly to Parkland...a 40-50
minute drive on a Sunday night. I thought it would be best to go
there and ask for help to stop the labor because according to the
newpaper article he would get top care in the NICU if he did come
early.

Quick decision you made to go to Parkland.

My bogus medical records have me bleeding bright red blood when I got
there...LIE. I was still spotting slightly.

Well, you were spotting at home, according to you. However, in the 45
minutes it took for you to get to hospital, don't you think you would have
bled some more? The fact is that you were bleeding and had pain that was
worsening. You did not have a massive bleed. However, you were bleeding
and this would have been more apparent to the person that examined you than
to yourself.

They examined me...They
told me I was fully effaced but only 1-2 cm dilated. They said they
would try to stop the labor but they did not seem too hopeful. They
also told me that they would be forced to do an emergency c-section if
my water broke. My records state I presented with spontaneous rupture
of membrane...LIE.

They kept telling me that Barret was not in
distress. I kept asking why I was in premature labor.

Several known causes for premature labor exist, however, of note is: PROM ,
another is antenatal bleeding.

Did you ask them why you were bleeding and what was causing the pain?

I wanted to
know what I had done wrong because I had done everything I was
supposed to do according to the midwife and all my books.

No midwife or book can guarantee anything. The good news is that you and
your son are both alive today. How about being a little grateful for that?
Most people would.

I had even
stopped riding my beloved Fairpuzzled because the midwife said that
horseback riding was one of the only activities she would not approve
of. I walked her in hand instead....never thinking our relationship
would change forever and we would never ride in a parade or jump
again...that I would lose my good seat, (balance) forever.

IN MEMORY OF MY BELOVED FAIRPUZZLED. She gave me strength. A most
honest horse whom was smarter than me but decided to befriend me
anyway. She is gone but her spirit is with me.

More later, Laura Lynn Halvarson Stanbery

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iZ7ZfPpgs

Go for it!!!


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