No Price Tag on My Husbands Life, Why Do They Think So

My question involves medical malpractice in the state of: N.C
My husband had gallbladder surgery that went south about 4 days after. The clips had came off and he suffered from a bile leak. He was hospitalized for that and an ERCP was performed to place a stint in the duct. Another month went by then he suffered jaundice and high liver counts that required hi to be hospitalized again for 2 weeks, again another ERCP performed with a placement of two stints. He came home for 1 week still in sever pain, went back into hospital, again a ERCP was performed to remove the same stints that was just put in 1 week before. He was in hospital for 10 days that time, Docotrs can't explain what was wrong, just that he was a complicated case. During one of the ERCP's he was oversedated and procedure waws stopped, they had to turn him over to perform bag ventlation for 4 mins (so they say) then they was able to start procedure again after he was stableized. I remember the day that this was done, no one told us what happened, I read it in the records, it took longer then it had before and when he was brought to the floor he was severly sedated, the nurses that was working the floor ran us out of the room for awhile, they said they had to get him stable before we could get in to see him. Through the other ERCP's it didn't take but about 1 to 1 1/2 hours then he was alert and talking to me, not this time. He was confused, his memory was affected, he was in and out for over a day. afterwords he remained confussed and had memory loss, short term was affected severly. His balance was off, he would fall stumble. About 2 weeks later I stared noticing twitching, sleeping a lot more, slured speech more memory loss, this was mild at first, something that I would just pass off as maybe just a reacton to something. Then the twiching became worse as time went by, lasting longer, we went to local E.R, they claimed it was a reaction to to much Phenergan, these spells would last for over 2 hours. I took him twice in one week for the same thing, we was told the same thing:wallbang:. Then, after givingup on the local we went to another facility, there they sent us to have some testing done over night at the hospital. The next morning the in-hospital doctor told my husband it was all in his head, that he needed a physsocigist. Frustrated, we had virtually given up on anyones help, when these spells happend he wouldn't let me take him to hospital. They got even worse, he would loose conscience, lasting for about 30 mins the first time. I wanted to take him to hospital then, he said they won't do anthing. I went along with him, but told him if it happend again, I would call the EMS, The next day, same thing, he was out for about 10 mins, no response, I called 911. The EMS Tech's couldn't get any response either, they had him airlifted from home to the bigger hospital 35 miles away. When he arrived he started regaining, confussed, didn';t know where he was at, what had happend, he never knew he was airlifted. When the ER doc read the past notes from the in-house doctor, we was brushed off, no test, no bloodwrok , nothing but a $4,000 ride in a chopper that he didn't remember. again, we was told all in the head:wallbang:. These spells turned into seizure like activity that happend everyday, two or more times a day, it became like 2nd nature to us, but I and veryone around us knew something wasn't right, there was something wrong somewhere. I did a lot of research and found a neurologist that specialized in movement disorders and seizures. Our first visit, we was expecting the same results, the doctor told us that he didn't belive it to be all in his head, but real. After several meds and several med changes, my husband started doing a little better, not much, but at this point any was great! Long story short, he was suicidal from depression (because of loosing his job and being sick for over a year) he now takes 8 differnt meds several times a day just to have a little functionabilty. He still can't work, still has difficulties doing little things around home. I have to give him his meds, he can't keep up with what to take. I had to get a power of attorney to handle any legal things that may come up for him as he has a hard time remembering. This happened to begin with April 2, 2007. He is still sick today. Please consider us in helping make things right. I feel that is he hadn't had the gallbladder surgery to begin with he wouldn't be sick like this, he would still have a job, we would not be in finacial hardship, loosing everything we have, because something went wrong somewhere.Thank you for taking the time to read our story.

I'm sure there are people who'd like to try and help you, but no white space in your very long post makes it next to impossible to get through.

Paragraphs are your friends! ;)

Try editing your post into paragraphs so it is easier to read and I'm sure some one will be by to help.

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Please consider us in helping make things right. I feel that is he hadn't had the gallbladder surgery to begin with he wouldn't be sick like this, he would still have a job, we would not be in finacial hardship, loosing everything we have, because something went wrong somewhere.

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that may true but if he did not have the gallbladder surgery, he may also be dead. You did not reveal why he had the initial surgery and you have provided no evidence anything was done improperly that would lead to the complications he has experienced.

Because of the great extent of complications and the seriousness of the situation, I would suggest setting down with a med-mal attorney who can review the actual records and make a reasonable determination as to if there was any malpractice involved.

It is simply not clear if there was anything actually outside the standards of care involved or he was simply, as they put it, a difficult case. The lack of diagnosis concerning the episodes of syncope may or may not be actionable since it is impossible to determine if the lack of a diagnosis caused any preventable injury.

Okay, I made it thru but my eyeballs are twitching.
I saw no question. Was there one?

I will say that surgeons don't make it a habit of taking out gallbadders for the fun of it. If it was taken out, it was for a reason.

As far as the ERCP goes, I see nothing wrong with what was done. It is standard protocal. Even if he was over sedated, it happens (and your husbands risks to that were explained on the anesthesia consent that he signed) and the proper thing to do when someone desats is to ventilate them.

You should consider trying to get SSD for your husband.