I agree it is a threat, but what I do question is the hospital's ability to answer her questions which does make me wonder, just how much might be negligence. We joke that the VA hospital here is so incompetent that if you go in to have you right leg removed, be careful when you wake that your left leg isn't gone too. Our local hospital can sometimes be as bad.

I feel for this woman in many ways. When I was pregnant, somehow I contracted listeria sepsis. I'm the only case in the entire county, in the entire state, for the entire year! They have no way of knowing where I contracted it, how I got it, when I got it. All they know is I spent 7 out of 9 months sick and my doctors chal...

I agree it is a threat, but what I do question is the hospital's ability to answer her questions which does make me wonder, just how much might be negligence. We joke that the VA hospital here is so incompetent that if you go in to have you right leg removed, be careful when you wake that your left leg isn't gone too. Our local hospital can sometimes be as bad.

I feel for this woman in many ways. When I was pregnant, somehow I contracted listeria sepsis. I'm the only case in the entire county, in the entire state, for the entire year! They have no way of knowing where I contracted it, how I got it, when I got it. All they know is I spent 7 out of 9 months sick and my doctors chalked it up to the stomach flu that was going around. I went into early labor a month early and the doctors put me on meds to stop it and sent me home. I had my baby shower 2 weeks later and went into labor again. I got so violently ill, I had to be admitted to the hospital and they did a ultrasound to find out why my daughter hadn't moved in 2 days. Come to find out I was so severely dehydrated there was almost no amniotic fluid. When I delivered the placenta was green so they tested it and found the listeria, but amazingly my daughter didn't have it. Because she died 3 times that day and had to be bagged 3 times, they gave her IV antibiotics as if she did have it. I had to have an emergency c-section because she had no heart rate. My daughter is now autistic and missing part of her brain with severe learning disorders. How much of that is the listeria, who knows. I just wish I knew when I got the listeria. According to one doctor, he thinks it's in my body naturally because of a miscarriage before my daughter and two afterwards. Because of this, I tied my tubes because it was too traumatic to keep losing pregnancies. I almost died myself when I had my daughter. According to the doctor we're very lucky to be here.

I feel for this woman and hope she gets her answers.

Thank you skwirlinator. I appreciate your kind words. My daughter is very well in our opinion, and a blessing. She and I have many health problems, how many of them come from her difficult birth, or my compromised immune system, we don't know. We just know we're glad to be here and glad to have her, no matter what capacity she's in.

We know she was born with agenesis of the corpus callosum meaning she's missing the bridge that connects the left half of her brain with her right. It has over 250 million nerve fibers. You'd be amazed what it controls. Because of missing this vital brain part, (a part that forms between the 5th and 16th week of fetal development), she has seizure disor...

Thank you skwirlinator. I appreciate your kind words. My daughter is very well in our opinion, and a blessing. She and I have many health problems, how many of them come from her difficult birth, or my compromised immune system, we don't know. We just know we're glad to be here and glad to have her, no matter what capacity she's in.

We know she was born with agenesis of the corpus callosum meaning she's missing the bridge that connects the left half of her brain with her right. It has over 250 million nerve fibers. You'd be amazed what it controls. Because of missing this vital brain part, (a part that forms between the 5th and 16th week of fetal development), she has seizure disorder, sensory integration dysfunction, dylexia, dygraphia (really bad to the point of needing a keyboard for writing), severe ADHD on 3 different ADHD meds, oppositional defiant disorder, impulse control disorder, we recently found out she is autistic, and is 11 physically, but 5 mentally, and is mildly retarded and in special education with speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy.

In all honesty though, I look at things as being much better than they could have been. We were told some children born with this have such severe seizure disorder you could tell right off that bat. Her's didn't show up until she was 3. Some children are so severe they will never walk, talk, and must have a feeding tube. She can walk (bumping into a lot of stuff), talk (prefers fake spanish or baby talk a lot so I have to translate LOL), and can feed herself, with the exception of a bad gag reflex and trying to swallow before chewing. So we're very lucky. I see it as raising an angel, rather than visiting a grave every year and I value everything she's taught in the 11 years God has loaned her to me.

Thank you again for your kind words.