Loading ...You met my late wife in (2004?) -we were traveling and met you in White Plains for a meal , before continuing our journey into New England . A very beautiful , intelligent and charismatic woman !
She was killed by inattention while in ICU . She had had a mechanical valve implanted several years earlier and was on blood thinners ( Coumadin ) . Then had a minor heart attack years later . She was rushed to ER and a blockage was found , so they did a balloon angioplasty later that afternoon , and put her on heparin . I left her that evening in good spirits as they were closing the ICU to visitors. Unfortunately , in snaking the device up to her heart , they had torn a small hole in the wall of a blood vessel in her abdomen , so she was leaking blood into her abdominal cavity .
Even though she was on full electronic monitoring , and had a dedicated nurse caring for only two patients in ICU , no one noticed her blood pressure falling until she went into cardiac arrest around 2:00 am. It took an hour to get her heart going again ( after transfusions ). By that time , brain damage , liver damage , and kidney damage were extreme . She died a day later , severely jaundiced .
I did not sue , because no amount of money would bring her back .