Comments on: Testing the Sawzall

By: Sleep

Sleep — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:33:07 +0000

This post’s a bit stale, I know, but I just wanted to add:

MRSA always takes a long time to appear. Twelve days elapsed from infection to emergency is consistent with the theory that she was infected at the hospital.

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:00:17 +0000

Woah … good eye, Steve. I (obviously) didn’t notice that, thus adding to the deception with my own writing. I’ll fix that …

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:39:35 +0000

IMO, the article is deceptively written to make it seem more dramatic. (not that this situation need any more drama added!)

The article sneaks this bit in:

Twelve days after giving birth at Orlando Regional South Seminole hospital, she was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center where she became a quadruple amputee.

According to that, it was almost two weeks after giving birth that she had her limbs amputated. The author of the article crafts it to make it seem as if she went in to have a baby and when she woke up she had undergone amputation surgery. That does not seem to be accurate.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:26:15 +0000

Imagine changing diapers

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:03:28 +0000

Yeah, me too. Waking up as an amputee … and finding out that I had just had a baby too. Too much!

By: traci

traci — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:59:17 +0000

that is insane. You would think they would tell the mother then treat the baby for any type of infection. How hard would it have been to tell the mother she was going to need surgery before they amputaated. Man I would be so ticked off if something like that ever happened to me..