Coroner says common bacteria killed Antioch girl

I am a 27year old female. In December I was stricken with sever pain in right limb within 24 hrs I was unable to walk. I visited local ER twice in 2 days. I was sent home with pain medication ans was told I had sprained my foot and put too much pressure on calve at the first visit. Second visit and different doctor ordered dopplars on my legs thinking their could be a clot. Negative for clots. was sent home both times. Within 72 hrs I had visited the Er, local family doctor and was sent to orthopedic surgeon. Had 2 more dopplars and was eating pain pills. At this point I was not eating and was in a wheel chair. The orthopedic surgeon after having negative dopplars sent me home and said to prop my legs 4-5 pillows and come see him that following Monday which was 5 days later if I was not feeling better. Thankfully a friend took me to a hospital an hr away who admitted me with my white blood cell count at 32,000. They admitted me immediately and started antibioctics. Infectious Diseases was in my room within hrs and I had massive swelling to limbs and was very ill. I had a faciotomy within 2 days to relieve swelling...and almost died from the infection. I was very blessed...for I have 2 small kids to raise and I need them. I was close to dying and the ignorance of physicians...in a small community almost allowed me to die. I am thankful that I was treated in time. Recovery was 6 weeks...walking was something that took time. I have a scar to remind me of how close death was. I am sorry for your loss. More people need to be trained...and not walk away prescribing meds for the "unknown" their job is to find out the cause not simply treat a symptom.

I take offense to calling us a fool by waiting to take her to the Er the second time. With know signs of any symptom's until the am of the 29 of October of 2003 she suddenly woke up with an extreme fever and unable to walk. I rushed her to the pediatrician and after a brief exam he told me to rush her to the ER. He even called to tell them we were on our way. When we got their, no one would even look at us for hours. Then we I was told "JESSIE IS FINE. SHE JUST HAS THE FLU AND THE TESTS CAME BACK NEGATIVE FOR SEPTIC AND THAT IT SHOULD ONLY LAST 3 TO 4 DAYS. Bed rest and Motrin were prescribe. The nest day I was told to call her pedi and tell him what they said and confirmed "THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT" The following day I called again asking for something for her leg pain, still believing she just had the flu, never given information that something could be serious or even worse death! I told him Jessie symptoms again, nothing had changed. The that horrible Halloween night Jessie's fever broke and we were so happy, thanking God. You will never understand what happened when she suddenly called my name after going to bed for about 20 minutes, and as I went to her she was completely cold, within minutes she turned colors and went limp. We rushed her to the ER thinking maybe she is dehydrated, I mean she just has the flu! The we watched in horror as she died right before our eyes. We faced a cover up. No one would tell us what happened. We then found out she died of septic syndrome and the doctors lied to us about doing the tests and she could have survived because early detection is the key, with culture and antibiotics. Animals get treated better then 7 year old little girls. So before you make such an arrogant statement, you should put your self in our shoes, and I am positive you would not be so quick to judge.
Heart broken and forever changed.
I love you Jessie.
Mommy

I am one of those kooks that believe in Colloidal Silver. A teaspoon a day taken orally would most likely have prevented this. Or at least gave her immune system a little help.

I am still an avid believer in Colloidal Silver and all that I personally know that it can do for anyone who chooses to use it.

New paragraph = New subject.

You are a fool if you wait until you are on your death bed before asking for a second opinion. ...and most doctors rate right up there with insurance salesmen, telemarketers and lawyers.

This is a blanket statement not only to you, but more emphatically to everyone expressing my lack of trust for the medical profession in general. I have three girls myself and have had more than my share of visits to hospitals and emergency rooms. I know doctors are completely fallible and even negligent in there duties on a daily basis. I also know that doctors can and do perform miracles on a daily basis as well, but I am not going to take the word of a doctor who may well have graduated doctor school with a D- to be the end all decision of a person that I care enough to trade my life for.

I feel for you for having to go through the horror of loosing a loved one. I apologize for what you have taken as a personal slam. I wasn't said in that context. I was no more calling you a fool than any other reader of this board.

My only advice to you would be to pray for the loving kindness and forgiveness of our Lord Jesus Christ and courage from the Holy Ghost to carry on until you can be rejoined with your child.

Short of that I would find the most blood thirsty lawyer I could and hold those accountable for the negligence in your daughters case.

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Dont let this be your one and only post.

I am not sure what you mean by calling me a troll. We had no intention of sueing, but we had no choice, we need to know what happened. Money was not an issue until we found out about the MICRA law. I will be you don't even know what that is. If you do then I am very surprised. When it became clear that gross negligence was involved I finally did call an attorney, and one after the other turned us down say "I am so sorry Mrs. Geyer you have an excellent case, but because she is a little girl and not a wage earner she is not eligible for actual damages. The law focuses on who the person is rather than the negligence involved. That includes stay at home moms, children, elderly or a single person with no one to support but them selves, and since they are dead, the 30 year old law denies people the right to a fair trial by a jury of there peers. You can find out more if you want to educate your self to have a decent debate. Put her name in any search engine Jessie Geyer and learn. Here is a website too. http://home.comcast.net/~geyerinc/Jessie.html

Point Taken.
I now realize your "fool" reference was not personal.
However, it's a little too easy for people to second-guess those of us who learned the hard way that things can go very, very badly, very suddenly. Most of the time, we hear of "just misses" when the family goes through an incredible string of bad results, followed by a long, but successful recovery and ultimately, a happy ending. We've heard many of them.
But our story does not end happily. We did not get that "near-miss" second chance. 2 different doctors were too casual about a serious diagnosis. Neither explained the risks of being wrong or talked of other options. They didn't know each other either. The pedi simply escalated to the nearby ER, then apparently did not think again about it because the ER doc called him and said it was negative, but only did panel blood tests, but no cultures. We actuallly found out later that the panel tests did show reason for concern, but was evidently rationalized with the Flu diagnosis.To this day, we still have not heard why they collectively decided not to perscribe antibiotics.
This is all water over the Dam. Just trying to point out that our biggest mistake was trusting the wrong professionals at just the wrong time. No one should be second-guessed for that -- simply because we will spend the rest of our days doing that to ourselves.

My heart aches for you, as you I have learned in the worst possible way that words cannot ever do justice to describe what we feel in our heart. When Jessie died a part of me went with her, but my love for her stays with me. Our health care is in a complete decline and the priorities unfortunately are motivated by the all mighty dollar. We need to speak out to make a change, she no longer has a voice, but I will do all I can to continue to shed light on the chasm of failure buried by blackness, and laws in place that keep the handful of bad doctors protected, making it unfair to all the good ones. The system is broken, and we all know it, but have come to accept that, it is just the way it is. Many may read this and say I am glad that did not happen to me, but let me tell you, It could. I still feel like I am caught in some kind of nightmare or movie you see on Lifetime. I pray for someone to wake me up, but no one has. I will remember your son........very sincerely Michelle

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