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Angela Martin
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What is the name of your state? New Jersey
My Husband had a SDS ventrical umbilical hernia repair in April 2003. With in days of the surgery he was being treated for staph infection of the surgical wound. This quickly turned in to MRSA which was resistant to many antibiotics. By July he was being I&D in the surgeon's office bi-weekly and on very powerful oral antibiotics. The wound was not healing. The surgeon kept this treatment up until October. We questioned if he should go to an infectious disease MD; the surgeon felt things were looking better. We thought so also as the wound was healed over. In December he started with fevers again; went to an I&D MD on our own. She suggested a coarse of 4-6 weeks home IV antibiotic therapy. We agreed and also went back to the surgeon. He seemed upset that we did this on our own and he felt that a second surgery would be needed now. The I&D MD thought the surgeon should have put him on IV therapy much sooner; she agreed that it looked like surgery would be the next step. The surgeon explained the surgery and that he would loose his belly button; the wound would stay open for a week and after the sign of infection is gone close him up and send him home. After 2 weeks inpatient with open wound he went home with open wound and more IV therapy. 7 days post-op our surgeon falls ill and is never returns to practice. We are followed up with a covering surgeon and after 3 more months another hospital stay and more infection he finally became well. My question is do we have a chance at a law suit. We lost 24 months of our lives battleing an infection; my husband is self-employed and we had no disability. What do you think?
My Husband had a SDS ventrical umbilical hernia repair in April 2003. With in days of the surgery he was being treated for staph infection of the surgical wound. This quickly turned in to MRSA which was resistant to many antibiotics. By July he was being I&D in the surgeon's office bi-weekly and on very powerful oral antibiotics. The wound was not healing. The surgeon kept this treatment up until October. We questioned if he should go to an infectious disease MD; the surgeon felt things were looking better. We thought so also as the wound was healed over. In December he started with fevers again; went to an I&D MD on our own. She suggested a coarse of 4-6 weeks home IV antibiotic therapy. We agreed and also went back to the surgeon. He seemed upset that we did this on our own and he felt that a second surgery would be needed now. The I&D MD thought the surgeon should have put him on IV therapy much sooner; she agreed that it looked like surgery would be the next step. The surgeon explained the surgery and that he would loose his belly button; the wound would stay open for a week and after the sign of infection is gone close him up and send him home. After 2 weeks inpatient with open wound he went home with open wound and more IV therapy. 7 days post-op our surgeon falls ill and is never returns to practice. We are followed up with a covering surgeon and after 3 more months another hospital stay and more infection he finally became well. My question is do we have a chance at a law suit. We lost 24 months of our lives battleing an infection; my husband is self-employed and we had no disability. What do you think?