Within 12 hours after walking into an "A" rated NC Medical University for an elective surgery on 7/28/08, Shelly would never be able to walk, or care for her own basic human functions again.We were never told anything, no explanation to why our trusted surgery team had failed so miserably. We never knew there was a STAT post-op MRI done when her condition started rapidly deteriorating. A total silence and abandonment from the moment Shelly came out of surgery. .
The interaction we did experience was the diagnosing surgeon, (director of spine surgery at the university) did come in her ICU room and laughed out loud in my face while I wept over Shelly.
It would be a total of 51 days until Shelly was discharged never again able to care for her own basic human functions again, let alone walk. We both soon became unemployed, ....insurance soon dropped her as she would never be able to work again and Shelly will never again know her passion, the hug of a child.
The silence was all the evidence I needed to know there was a huge cover-up going on. That betrayal was confirmed in the coming months trying to get the medical records. The frustrating struggle just getting records further fueled the fire that our trusted medical university knew they caused Shelly's harm/near death, and were making every effort to lie about it.
After many attempts, and moths of agonizing effort, we did get our hands on enough of the medical records to see clearly.
The medical records were egregiously falsified to cover up for the botched diagnosis. The post-op medical plan was for Shelly NOT to survive to tell her story. Looking true evil square in the eye for the first time in my life shook me to the core
What we did learn from the records is the "small, well healed vertical scar from the 1990 shunt was reopened. Now there is this eight inch horizontal scar, and the vertical scar is nearly twice as long. Shelly can no longer lift her arms.. or feel her body from the armpits down, or manager her own bodily functions. How did this 2008 surgery scare come to be? Not documented, no video, zero communication post-harm except Hospital risk
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| Pre surgery image 1 |
Somehow the 1990 failed shunt (Image 1&2) Shelly was trying to have evaluated, (and felt WAS the problem all along) was invisible to all of the Duke Surgeons before during and after surgery. Even while under microscopic surgery! The failed implant is smack dab in the middle of the surgery field.
Less than 15 minutes after Shelly's 2008 surgery, She was injected with Methylprednisaolone High Dose.
Thankfully this barbaric practice was stopped in 2013) Jeanne Lenzer wrote in “Why we can’t trust clinical guidelines” [1] that “one expert estimated that more patients had been killed by the treatment in the past decade than died in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.” The treatment was methylprednisolone (MP) and the expert was neurosurgeon Fred Geisler who assumed that 10,000 people with spinal cord injury (SCI) received high-dose MP each year for 22 years
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| STAT MRI image 2 |
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| Image 3 |
Less than two hours after the STAT MRI (IMAGE 2) clearly showing the spinal cord being not only displaced by the cyct, but now a post-op spinal hematoma was crushing her spinal cord. (A well known possible complication, a medical emergency requiring re-opening the surgery site to evacuate the hematoma) Shelly's trusted surgeon simply writes in his own hand writing, "NO COMPREHENSIVE FLUID COLLECTIONS" A bald faced lie simply because to address the new medical emergency would further expose the botched diagnosis.
The neurological monitoring we were told would keep Shelly from harm during surgery. was a total sham. In fact we learned there was no one in the operating room qualified to do IOM (Inoperative Monitoring).So it was simply documented as "unreliable/un-usable data and then incision. The hospital pocketed well over $10,000.00 for those twelve shhets of paper and was totally worthless. nothing but a sales gimmick
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