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New mother who lost limbs to flesh-eating disease sues Halifax hospital
CTV News ^ | October 11, 2017 | Aly Thomson

Posted on 10/13/2017 8:20:59 PM PDT by sparklite2

He said it's also alleged that when Hubley arrived back at the hospital on March 5 with abdominal pain -- the day after being discharged following the birth -- an examination was not performed. Hubley was diagnosed with constipation and sent home.

The next day, she was rushed to the hospital after experiencing more pain and discolouration on her body.

She was later diagnosed with flesh-eating disease, and has since undergone multiple surgeries, including amputations below both of her elbows and knees and a total hysterectomy.

(Excerpt) Read more at ctvnews.ca ...


TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alcohol; disinfecting; germs; handwashing
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To: sparklite2

It would be impossible to care for a baby without arms or hands. Our daughter has two little ones and they keep her running.


21 posted on 10/13/2017 10:37:47 PM PDT by buffyt (Humane Societies are proudly No Kill. When will Planned Parenthood be No Kill!??!?!!?!?!?!)
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To: KJC1

Well, we disagree on that. I think it’s irrelevant to her plight, and I don’t think his little joke means he is sadistic. I would need more evidence to make that statement.


22 posted on 10/13/2017 10:39:18 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Do you think it is funny that anyone, a new mom no less, just lost 4 limbs and internal organs? Would you make a joke about that?


23 posted on 10/13/2017 10:52:18 PM PDT by KJC1 (When you are dealing with the devil, the only answer is God.)
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To: KJC1

I know someone that had a form of this...before I knew her. She very recently detailed what she went through. I get that it’s a horrible disease, but silly jokes on an online forum don’t impact the woman’s situation. I’m just very careful about wishing harm on people unless they have truly done something evil. I don’t believe it’s healthy. A Kim Jong-on...yes, I hope he meets a bad end.


24 posted on 10/13/2017 11:00:48 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: KJC1

Ok, I admit it. Your Cheerios. It was me.


25 posted on 10/13/2017 11:11:49 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: beaversmom
I think we agree on the big picture but disagree on another. I am not a fan of anyone who laughs at someone else's undeserved pain; I think it is pure evil. If the laugher ends up suffering a similar fate, well, my sympathy and empathy are for the innocent and not for the laugher.

I’m just very careful about wishing harm on people unless they have truly done something evil. I don’t believe it’s healthy.

You mean like what the OP did to this poor mother, right? He didn't "wish" it, he just laughed about it after her limbs and innards were removed, so that's much better. It isn't healthy at all.

26 posted on 10/13/2017 11:19:48 PM PDT by KJC1 (When you are dealing with the devil, the only answer is God.)
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To: tumblindice
Ok, I admit it. Your Cheerios. It was me.

Your punch bowl. And you liked it.

Signed,

Barry O.

27 posted on 10/13/2017 11:26:26 PM PDT by KJC1 (When you are dealing with the devil, the only answer is God.)
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To: sparklite2

Unfortunately, incompetence is not limited to socialized medicine, although it might be more frequent in that system, along with simply not giving a damn. There is a reason that doctors’ mistakes kill around 100,000 people in the USA per year.


28 posted on 10/13/2017 11:57:21 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: sparklite2

Single payer, “Send ‘em home with a pill”.


29 posted on 10/14/2017 1:40:36 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: sparklite2

This is not funny. This is a fast and lethal condition. I should know. I spent 4 months in the hospital and rehab over the summer with this. I was Heaven blessed to not lose a limb or my life. I will carry a massive scar and a pronounced limp for the remainder of my days. I am still fighting back daily from the fatigue that remains. I have no funny quips to add, only prayers sent for this poor woman.


30 posted on 10/14/2017 6:12:10 AM PDT by bigredkitty1 (Stupidity kills. Just not often enough.)
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To: beaversmom

It IS a horrible disease. Had it. Survived it, limbs intact. Have the scars and Tshirt to prove it.


31 posted on 10/14/2017 6:15:55 AM PDT by bigredkitty1 (Stupidity kills. Just not often enough.)
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To: lastchance

Mersa, Staff, Legionaires, Norovirus, are in any American hospital.

Cleaning practices are dismal, 1 of the worst places to pick up a bug or virus is your doctor’s office. NEVER touch their sneezed/coughed on magazines. No one hands out cough mask to a patient who comes in the door doing so. Snot nosed kids touching every thing is another way it spreads. Don’t get me wrong I love kids, raised 3, every school year I’d send healthy kids to school, with in 2 weeks, mumps, measles, flu, GI stuff and Lice were coming home.

Schools are another germ/bacteria factory. As is Church, malls, any where there are large groups of people. Never touch those hand rails on escalators they are full of crap to make you sick.


32 posted on 10/14/2017 6:41:12 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: sparklite2

The Japanese, Koreans and Chinese have long known about a bacterial probiotic that acts as a prophylaxis against Clostridium difficile and maybe many other drug resistant bacterial diseases.

The antibiotics Clindamycin (for example, Cleocin), Fluoroquinolones (for example ciprofloxacin (Cipro), Penicillins, and Cephalosporins, can often leave a person vulnerable to drug resistant bacteria, because they wipe out so much of your healthy bacterial flora.

But in the 1960s, the Japanese discovered Clostridium butyricum, a non-harmful bacteria that blocks difficile and likely several other such bacteria in your intestines. It is made in Japan and sold as “Miyarisan”. It is standard practice in their hospitals to give patients a regimen of it prior to surgery, if possible.

It is sold on Amazon, but is cheaper on Ebay. And it does take about 3 weeks to ship.

Definitely good to have a bottle of it in your medicine chest. Because C. diff will make you sick for a month, and has been described as “cholera’s younger brother.”

According to the CDC, about 300,000 Americans got C. diff a couple of years ago. “Approximately 29,000 patients died within 30 days of the initial diagnosis of C. difficile. Of those, about 15,000 deaths were estimated to be directly attributable to C. difficile infections.”


33 posted on 10/14/2017 8:44:40 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Hitlers Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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