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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Like many young men, Josh Nahum loved a thrill. That's why he took up skydiving. But on Labor Day weekend in 2006, he had an accident while skydiving in Colorado, fracturing his femur and skull.
Josh spent six weeks in the intensive care unit. Slowly, his condition improved, and his doctors predicted that with rehabilitation, he could fully recover in a year or two.
That doesn't surprise me at all. I went in to have a baby via c-section and ended up in the hospital for a month with Clostrium Dificil among other infections and calamaties. The Dr.'s said it was because of the antibiotics used - who really knows but basically I almost died.
My grandmother did die from a hospital (mistake).They gave her a medicine she was allergic to and one known to cause blood clots. She showered blood clots through her body. She died from acute myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident and pulminary embolism. That means heart attack, stroke and blood clots in the lungs. All three of those at once, from blood clots that were caused by Celebrex.
I am going to a funeral in two days for a decades long friend and neighbor of my parents.
He had a tumor on his left kidney. The kidney was removed. That was 2 plus weeks ago. He was basically in pretty good health other than the kidney and no cancer was found anywhere else so it hadn't spread.
He died because when the kidney was removed a piece of his intestine was nicked by the doctor and leaked body waste into the abdomen.
I can't think of the correct name for it at the moment but the infection caused by it was so far along that by the time it was discovered, it was too late.
An autopsy was ordered to determine the official cause of death. I guess for legal purposes.
I know his kids are planning a lawsuit.
Doctors and hospitals can kill you. Depending on where you look, the
3rd. to 5th. leading causes of death are medical mistakes. If you want to stay healthy and well, stay away from doctors, hospitals and the medicines they prescribe.
Now there are times when we absolutely have no choice and have to depend on them and it really ticks them off when their patients ask to many questions or refuses their suggestions or questions what they say... BUT, YOUR life depends on it!
My son was burned on 82% of his body and they did save his life. However while in the hospital that 9 months they managed to give him that MRSA staph infection several times and that should have NEVER happened. It made a very difficult time even more difficult and delayed his healing. In the burn trama unite, they do normal housekeeping like they do in every room in the hospital, using the same bucket of water in every room. That entire room should be completely sanitized every single day and anyone entering should also be sanitized every time they come in there.
All treatmnent rooms should be sanitized with the strongest disinfectant known to man and BY people who have been sanitized before going in there and resanitized themselves during cleaning. Yea, that is a lot of work but by golly, peoples lives are at stake there.
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