legs

Awwww, look how cozy he is!

Gollee!  I’ve woken up in hospitals and Mexican prisons on nights that I have blacked out but I’ve always returned home with limbs intact.  A black eye here, a scar there, sure?  But all 206 bones came with me.  I just learned that this does not always happen.

A western Pennsylvania woman who drank herself unconscious celebrating her 20th birthday says a hospital didn’t properly treat her, resulting in partial amputations of both of her legs.

That sentence is like this one, “Once upon a time, the end happened.” Some filler would be a nice accompaniment to the black out/amputation bookends.

Shanna Hiles’ medical malpractice suit against Uniontown Hospital and one of its emergency physicians says she passed out while sitting on the floor with her legs tucked under her in May. Hiles was in that position for more than 12 hours, and she claims hospital officials didn’t properly diagnose her condition and work to restore circulation to her legs.  Instead, Hiles claims she was transferred to a Pittsburgh hospital several hours later where both legs were amputated at the knee.

12 hours?  I’m sorry, part of me thinks that you bring whatever it is that happens to you on yourself, if you’re so drunk that you can sleep for 12 hours in a seated position with your legs tucked under you.  A hibernating bear would wake up if he were propped in that position.

But hang on a second here.  How is someone left for 12 hours untouched in a hospital?  You couldn’t sit on a beach for 12 hours before some random person checked on you.  She couldn’t have looked comfortable! …passed out on the floor with her legs tucked under her. That’s the position people lie in when they’ve been hit in the back of the head by a sniper. WTF!

Powered by Bookmarkify™