Ella Clarke went in the hospital to deliver her seventh
child and was excited to see her beautiful baby girl. Ella had a condition
called placenta previa and knew she would need a C-section which was no
big
deal since she had delivered six previous children that way. Instead of a
relatively routine surgery, something went horribly wrong.
Thirty minutes into
her surgery, Clarke developed what is known as placenta accreta, where her
placenta embedded too deeply into her uterine wall and caused hemorrhaging. The
complication caused her to need an emergency hysterectomy, five blood
transfusions, and she needed to be put into a medically induced coma.
While Clarke
was still in the coma, she developed blood clots in her legs which stopped the
circulation, depriving her legs of their blood supply. Clarke was supposed to
be monitored every hour, but she alleges that six hours went by before anyone
noticed there was a problem. Surgeons tried to restore circulation, but it was
too late. Doctors had no other choice but to amputate both of her legs.
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