Family Shattered by Blood Mix-Up Sterling Patient Died After Error by Inova Fairfax Technician By Avram Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 8, 2003; Page B01 Tawnya Brown sat in her hospital bed and cried, dreading the moment she had hoped would never come. Soon she would undergo surgery to repair damage from an inflammatory bowel disease, which meant wearing a colostomy bag for three months while she healed. That wasn't how she wanted to live in the Sterling townhouse she shared with her 8-year-old daughter and husband, who can't work full time because of a heart condition. "I...