A routine hysterectomy
On October 16, 2019 I was scheduled to have a routine hysterectomy. It turned out to be anything but that. I was sent home from hospital later that same day. I came home and essentially died and was found on the floor by my husband. I had bled out from my abdomen causing my lungs to collapse and hypovolemic shock. The paramedics intubated me in the ambulance in my driveway. It was estimated that I was clinically dead for close to 28 minutes. Fast forward to 8 days in ICU, 7 blood transfusions and emergency surgery. being put on a ventilator for almost a week. My husband had initially been told that I would not survive that first night. It has been almost a year and a half I am still healing and definitely feel the emotional scars. Anxiety, depression and PTSD. I have severe short term memory loss. I have completely lost my nursing career and livelihood. I am still struggling to put my life back together emotionally as well as financially.
