Nov 20 2007Dennis Quaid's newborn twins in intensive care

Yeah baby!

Bam!

poor poor guy. :(

That's a bloody shame.

poor bloke :(

Somebody started making the cranberry sauce waaaay too early this Thanksgiving.

That was a really sweet thing to say fish. I hope they do too..that's horrible

I hope someone at the hospital gets fired for this this is a friggin joke and someone needs to be held accountable. I am surprised that an amublance chaser hasn't filed a suit on their behalf and it is making the 4pm news...

#1 and #2....pathetic...at least take a second to read what the hell the article is about. Here's hoping for them to turn out alright. Dennis always seemed like a good guy and certainly no parent deserves something like this to happen...least of all around the holidays.

10,000 units? even Jenna Jamison can't handle 10,000 units.

I hope the kids get better soon. Wrong / over dosage of medicines for babies sometimes have long term side effects when they grow up, like damages to other organs.
Wishing them best of health!

His family is in my thoughts. I hope the twins pull through, and that the Quaid family is able to have cheery holidays. What a horrid mistake :(

Twin Cacciatore! Well, listen up, sonny Jim: I ate a baby. Oh, aye, baby: the other, other white meat. Baby: it's what's for dinner.

I bet he names at least one of them "Red".

No no no! I said put out the holiday "plates", not "platelets"!

ya know #6 and #14, you are not funny, you are sick. You are making me sick. I have the number of a very adequate therapist.

One of them's a girl, so she's pretty much lock up the world record for earliest period.

17, you're stupid

I know an adequite therapist also.

I'm sure you know several..

Probably a mistake to name one of them after Katherine Heparin.

#16 - I'm not sure a specialist in treating nymphomania would help in this case.

wow....that's horrible. I hope they're okay. what an emotional roller-coaster. if I was that mother, I'd be raising some kind of hell. oh, and a lawsuit. that kind of huge mistake is unforgivable.

Did Kanyes mothers doctor have anything to do with this?

Wrong holiday - these should have been Halloween babies.

We can only hope that #17 was a jimbo troll and that he has not crossed over to the dark side. Sick fuck

So Fish can trash Britney's kids all he wants but then all of the sudden has some compassion for someone else's kids?? Hypocrite!!! I hate this site.

Why is this here? I am sorry this happened to him and his kids, but this is a celb bashing site. Not a lets feel sorry for celb site..

@17 BIte Me troll!!

I thought veggies marinara was a traditional Thanksgiving side dish only in Italian families.

Jimbo your a sick fuck, but I agree. "newborn twins" at this site should only refer to pics of a hottie who just got implants

27
Are you fucking kidding me??
What the fuck is wrong with Britney's kids?
Are they in Cedars-Sinai Hospital?
Shut the fuck up

Twins usually are premature and spend some time in incubators right after birth. So I wonder if they got sauteed?

Difference between Britney and this? Britney's kids weren't actually in INTENSIVE CARE. Come on, guys. Eeeeesh. Even the Fish doesn't want to see them in NICU. Give 'em a break.

Poor kids. I've heard this happen before with a newborn and it died soon after. The same story too, people weren't paying attention and gave the wrong dosage. Nurse and a few others got fired as well as the hospital got their ass sued majorly.

Steve - Most of the post from myself, FRIST & Veggi are the work of our troll. We each have our own troll and sometimes they are funny, other times they are retarded, and today they are sick fucking assholes. We never know which personality is going to show up..

Jesus. If these were my babies, someone would be paying dearly for that mistake.

No, Ficial. Not cool. Never wish luck. Fuck Quaid. I say, if the kids die it just wasn't meant to be. I wonder if the bastards are bleeding from the rectum?

What a harsh story, total depressing bummer. Gee thanks, Fish. Even if they pull through, these kids are going to be severely disabled and will live very difficult lives. Sometimes in these cases it's just too much by the time they're teenagers and everybody is making fun of them. Suicide is not uncommon. So they might end up slashing their wrists, which would be sorta ironic.

The Heparin should reverse fairly rapidly but why were they getting it in the first place? Blood transfusion? - at least one person just exited the medical field.
Blessings & Prayers to Dennis & wife & babies & his older child.

I bet the insides of their bassinets looked like panty liners.

What kind of inept people does this hospital have on staff? Even if a med was put away in the wrong place a competent nurse always checks everything before administering a med. Especially one this dangerous. They should fire that bitch.

Nurse Elvira...goddammit, now how did I miss that?

41: TWO nurses are supposed to check Heparin, just like Insulin....

His career bled out a long time ago.

so what...kids die every day...

YOU INSENSITIVE FUCKING PRICK VEGGIE (#6)!!! HOW HEARTLESS AND COLD CAN YOU BE YOU SHELL OF A HUMAN FUCKING BEING??!! AS A PARENT WITH 3 CHILDREN, I FIND YOU COMMENT AS REPREHENSIBLE AND OFFENSIVE AS ANYONE EVER COULD. That was ridiculous and uncalled for. FUCK YOU. So wrong. My heart goes out to Dennis and his family and I wish them the best of holidays. I cannot imagine the number of people at the hospital that would get their asses sued after being beaten with a chair if that happened to me. Dear God..

Something similar just happened in France. While giving a boy some mophine, a nurse got confused between mg and ml and gave the boy 10 times what he was supposed to... which killed him.

@40 You so funny you dumbass troll. Are you going to die anytime soon??

Whoa 46...

calm the fuck down...

Nurses are all retarded. Other than surgery, what goes wrong in a hospital? Wrong meds, wrong doses, skipped doses, infections spread across patients, bed sores...nurses. Why the fuck do they make so much money? Fucking useless.

Jimbo, we should leave. Everyone here is a troll.

I feel like the last survivors of Invasion of the Body Snatchers..

New post please....

#46 - well hello, parent of the year! Hanging out on at the Superficial, that's just great. Why don't you turn off the CAPS key, shut down your computer, and spend some quality time with your retarded children? Even if they're teenagers, I bet at least one of them needs to be changed.

See, this is where liberals will take us with their love of late term abortions.

Maybe the nurse overheard Dennis Quaid making an insensitive joke about hemophiliacs.

It is a new low how many people are making jokes at babies nearly dying. Some of you are really pathetic.

What a terrible story, so close to Thanksgiving. Once the juices are gone, everything gets tough and stringy.

55 you need to lighten up, jeez!! Like you've never laughed at a politically incorrect joke...or even made one yourself...before?? There's nothing like a dead baby joke to brighten your day...nobody takes it seriously, so LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP!!!

@52 Damn troll. that was a good one. I think Veggi would be proud of that one..

#22 not me... unfunny troll. Nothing funny about this story.

I'm sensitive and caring.

Yeah, what #60 the troll said.

that nurse should get what's coming to her

Geez. The Superficial actually shows human tenderness. That's...eerily awesome. Good for you, Fish guy. I hope his kids make it too. God bless that family.

Poor kids, that's awful. I really hope they make it through without any major complications.

If there's any justice in this world, those twins were born HIV positive and none of the nurses wore gloves.

Poor kids, that's awful. I really hope they make it through without any major complications.

They bled out. Including in their brains. The best outcome is surviving with less than severe brain damage (and damage to other major organs). There's no happy ending here.

This isn't funny.

Wo, not to be callous but if they pass, can I have em? Babies are DELICIOUS!

my God, that is horrible news!! I hope his babies will be ok and will have no lasting effects of this OD....I also think both the tech and the nurse should be fired. any nurse, nursing assistant, dr. PA fully well know to read orders, medications, id tags, etc so that something like this does not happen. both of those people failed that day, and now there are two innocent babies suffering profoundly.

Same thing happened to Britney Spears parents. The child survived.

71, okay now that's funny!

im all for off-color jokes - but not in the wake of a possibility of two children dying. some of you people have no off button. continue to hide behind your member names and board postings, and i hope none of you ever have to face something like dennis is and be met with the same absolute disrespect.

superficial: maybe you can think ahead and not post things you know your 12-yr old readers cant handle like mature adults.

ah cool, my troll has caught up with me. makes me feel important. did you miss me, troll?

gee, it looks like we upset mom...

"im all for off-color jokes - but not"...

That's how it always begins, when some self-appointed nag begins a judgmental comment. The first part is alway a lie.

Who are you kidding? You don't give a rat's ass about those kids.

All you care about is a dirty greasy punch line.

The best outcome is not necessarily brain damage - they could have bled into their abdomens or somewhere else. It just depends how soon they got the anti-heparin on board.
Very sad though.

x

# 62- nowhere does it say the nurse was female

# 50- unlike cubicle jockeys, nurses don't get paid to sit on their asses and surf the internet. They're run off their feet trying to care for ungrateful assholes like you.
By the way, real original that, using the word retarded as an insult.

As a Vet Asst. it is drilled into our heads that we check the meds when we take it down, check the label again as we get the dose and check a 3rd time as we are putting it back on the shelf...all this before we give the pet the medicine. Why is it that human nurses aren't required to do this? It's a sad day when your animals receive better care than a human baby. This story is truly horrific and tragic.

You fucking litigious yank cunts (but not #79).

Some poor guy has his new borns nearly die, and all you can talk about is retribution against some nurse, and sueing some hospital.

I'm fucked if I would ever become a nurse and look after your fat children. If I make no mistakes - I get paid fuck all to work shit hours for ungrateful bastards who can't wait to sue. I make one mistake. You destroy my life.

Conversely, if I fuck your children or kill my ex-wife, I get away scott free provided I pay enough for a lawyer. Ironic that I'd make more money as a lawyer trying to destroy lives than a nurse trying to save them.

I doubt that taking legal action would make Mr Quaid feel any better than my good wishes would. Notwithstanding I hope they both recover and maintain good health. Nobody deserves this.

This seems to be happening a lot these days. This happened last year to a group of newborns at a hospital around here and all of the newborns died. I heard that the containers that hold the different doses of heparin look the same, so they changed the colors or packaging to be able to tell the difference in the future. Really, how hard is it for nurses to do their job and double check before giving medication? So sad!

Yeah you all suck. Nurses are supposed to check and triple check meds, but everyone makes mistakes. Fortunately for all of you, usually your mistakes don't effect anyone's life.
Nurses get paid what they do because of 4 years of intense schooling (here you have to have a Bachelor in Nursing to practice), brutal hours, working holidays, dealing with people lives day in and day out.
# 50 medication errors can start with the doctor prescribing the wrong med/amount or the doc handwriting being so piss poor no one can read it. Nurses make the most mistakes because they provide the most care. I hope you when you need a nurse you make sure to tell them how you feel........

For those who are making the red-sauce and bloody comments.... if you are ever in this type of situation, I would gladly point and laugh.

Who am I kidding... I wont put myself down to your level.

I hope they get better.

#73 and all the rest of you.
Why don't you go and get a life.
If there is a joke to be made then it will be made. That's what comments sections are mainly about, people trying to be smart asses.
If there are potential jokes to be made they will be made.
There is such a thing as black humor and if you don't like it or "get it" then too bad. Don't be all pissy just because you have no sense of humor.
Someone makes a joke based on a play on words and you think that makes them heartless? Idiot alert!

You are so full of yourself that instead of just leaving your "positive" comment you also start an argument by trying to "tell off" people not being sickly sweet.

gotta agree with #73 - sometimes its okay to just say "wow that sucks" and leave it at that. sense of humor doesn't outweigh sense of decency for the "average" human being.

it's a fucked up thing and I hope they pull out of it...the nurse should know better than to give a medication without reading...that's just rediculous.

Yes, He is energy and awesome! I lvoe his shows very much. I was told that his personal blog was found at a celeb singles website called Millionairematch.com/photo/bloger or something just like that. But I don't think he has enough time for writing a blog on the internet. Maybe it's done by his fans.

Wow, this is just such a re-un-assuring incident which points to the superior (inferior-)- ity of the US Healthcare system. Similar circustance took one of a set of twins in my own family. I hope people wake up here and take serious, serious note and mostly, I hope the babies make it through with no problems! Best Wishes!

Wow! Look at all of the supportive comments on this story. Check out the Kanye story and people are laughing about his mom dying. White folks are so predictable, but turnabout is fair play.

LOLOLOLOL, that's what he gets for making "In Good Company."

It's not as if Kayne West is an imposing, stupid, egocentric, racist asshole or anything? Constantly being shoved down our throats and making our ears bleed by making shitty music.

And Dennis Quaid is pretty damn cool, doesn't annoy us and has a few good films.

Noooo must be because he's black!

FYI. Kayne's mum is getting less sympathy because she is an old woman who underwent dangerous surgery voluntarily for looks.

What did Dennis' children do... be born? Oh my god! Stupid superficial bastards with nothing better to do with their money!

This information is none of our business. Its one thing when some drunk celebrity slut flashes her cooter, but this is just tasteless

I regularly check out this site, but with this post, its my last visit.

Goodbye.

JK lmfao!! These celebrity blogs have ALWAYS been about prying into people's private lives. Don't pretend like you were a regular. Lets face it, you're some sensitive lame ass who just came across this site today.

How is this story in ANY way tasteless? IMO this is not tasteless so it doesn't really belong on the site. The people coming here want nipple slips and drunken falls etc, not dying baby stories.
A few posts down there is a private video of Paris Hilton stark naked in her bath that was leaked onto the net and YOU are complaining that a legitimate news story about children and hospital negligence is TASTELESS ?
wtf kind of logic is that

I bet they look like dad when he conked his head at the quarry in 'Breaking Away'.

Why is this the terrible news that everyone is obligated to be really serious about? It's for the children... For the chilllllldrrrreeeeeeen. The children are the future, it's true -- THE REALLY SHITTY FUTURE.

I'd concern myself more with a really serious topic, like the one-world government, the New Age, the de-Christianization of the world, the murderous freaks who run America, technology sneaking up everyone's ass, etc. Instead of just popping out babies as if everything was fine and dandy.

Just one more reason to have your fucking babies at home where doctors and nurses can't accidently kill them

de-Christianization of the world
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
This is a celebrity website that's why. You'll see it covers scientology sometimes. Not because it's interesting or relevant, but because it is a big thing among some retarded celebrities and it's also funny.
Christianity is just sad. There are also no aliens mentioned or anything.
If you want to 'concern yourself more with something else' something more serious, then just you go ahead and do that. We certainly won't miss you.

kimberly, but if you have them at home and accidently kill them yourself, you would have no one to blame and sue
why can't the nurses just learn to look at the labels properly instead of "grabbing" into a cupboard full of meds

Let me just say as a nurse, it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to screw up this badly if you follow your protocol....such as reading the medication vial before sticking a needle in and drawing up the Units needed.

10,000 Units sound like a lot....its not....but it is for a newborn. Some medications come in high amounts like Heparin......For a newborn, the dosage should have been 1000-5000 Units, not 10000 Units. And for her to blame a 'technician" is lame....she needs to own up to the fact that because of her negligence, both babies may never regain consciousness and become vegetables or they may die.

#90 - Dennis Quaid wastes millions of dollars making SHITTY movies. He made ONE good movie about Jerry Lee Lewis and since then, he's been garbage.

He's just a lame, has-been actor whose kids may die. And what did Kanye's mom do? She just wanted a surgical procedure that 99% of those white bitches in Orange County have.

White = Sympathy for entitled no-talents
Black = Scorn, Scorn, Scorn, and a little bit of malice thrown in to top it off.

#99. Good point about the dosage.

Not sure, but I think that heparin may come in different strengths, one is a concentrate you might use in a drip (the effects of heparin don't last very long) or dilute, and one is for direct injection.

So the units used were correct, and the substance was correct, but the strength was wrong. The twins were indeed given 1000 times the recommended dose.

...so do you still think it is IMPOSSIBLE to screw up?

100.

Could you BE any more racist? Just shut the fuck up.

You know, not to sound arrogant, but when giving medications, you have 3 checks you do....and that prevents any error from happening. So yes, it is impossible to make a med error IF a nurse employs the proper technique. However, many dont. As soon as they graduate, they forget about the "3 med checks" and just give med with 1 check or, many times, just by "memory" of where they think the med always used to be. Yes, its a pain to have to sit there and go through each dose 3 times for a patient before I give it....but on the plus side, I have never killed anyone nor have I ever harmed them, or put them in harm. And I know people arent perfect, I get that....but when you are a nurse or a doctor, other people's lives are in your hands and unfortunately too many people dont take that serious enough.

But someone said he is searching someone on a rich women passion site sugarmommymeet.. there are some of his hot pictures.. joke or not?

sorry to hear that, hope the kids pull through in the near future. Hope they happy ..God bless you~~

Sick, sick world. People want to duiscuss racism or be funny about babies who almost die? Come on, get a life and maybe some of your fundamental feelings will appear again. Or maybe not. #89 and the other analyts of interne culture (ha, ha): No, it's NOT RACIST to hope the twins pull throgh. And the worthiness of their life doesn't depend on someone's reaction o Kanye's mother dying, to the quality of Dennis Quaid's movies or the colour of his skin. Now, people, your pre-pubetarian humor is quite funny with Kim Kadashian's ass or Lindsay Lohan's booze. But in matters of life and death or even politics (#53: liberals? what do you know about that? nothing, obviously. don't use terms your redneck brain can't understand, keep talking about fishing and football) you better shu up. Because you are not being funny or smart or even just provocative. You are dumb. Still, I hope something like this will never happen to you or your kids. Because even the worst morons deserve good health care and their right to live life their own way.

Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis killed 3 babies last year with Heparin. Link goes to story mentioning both Dennis Quaid and the Indianapolis tragedy.

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=7391475&nav=9Tai

This is why there are protocols to follow in a hospital; these things are supposed to be checked and double checked. For those of you having a fit that some people are talking about suing -- there is a good reason to sue, above and beyond the money that might be needed to care for these babies in the future. Namely, Cedars HAS protocols or, if they don't, they are a minefield waiting to explode. When processes (that are put in place due to best practices research) aren't followed, the hospital is liable. Having a lawsuit pending *does* actually force changes so that it doesn't happen again.

There are too many hospitals that don't follow best practices because they're short staffed, or too cheap, or too poor. As a result patients die. Lawsuits are the only avenue the average Joe has to force hospitals to rethink patient care.

100,000 of babies die daily of more tragic circumstances all around the world. those babies are tragedies. some rich, famous guy's kids are accidentally overdosed,....well, this is more of an "oopsy" not a tragedy. he's got more than enough money and access to the best medical facilities to fix this error. besides, as old as he and his wife are, the kids are bound to have dents in their cans anyway.

Jesus . . . major lawsuit and heads are gonna roll. I hope the babies make it OK. :-(

I wish nothing but the best for them

#106 -- This is a sick, sick world. A world where a man can lose his mother to in a common surgery and then have people say she should have died, call him racial slurs, and call into question his love for his mother.

Why don't spread some of that kum-bai-ya B.S. on the comment section about Kanye's mom...

Oh I forgot. He's black. His feelings are meaningless against the possible DEATHS OF TWO WHITE BABIES! OH THE HUMANITY! THE WHITE BABIES ARE DYING!!!

hehe

Where am I, on Bossip?

Its interesting to read about celebs and their fuck-ups. But some of your are just stupid.

Veggi - FUCK YOU!! You stupid waste of protein that your mother should have swallowed. I will read you like a book.

fucking nurse whores.
Oh man, that was really nice of you fish.
This is sad :-(

112 you are an idiot if you can't tell the difference between the situations and only see the colours of the people involved
for a start, these were BABIES. People always feel sorry for babies because they are just starting their life.
Kayne's mum was an adult and the babies didn't choose for this to happen, they had absolutely no control over it. Kayne's mum put herself in danger.
so STFU racist cunt

109 you are obviously an idiot too. they can't do anything to "fix" this "error"
It's not like their fucking taxes. The "error" is their child's body fighting for survival. Money doesn't help. They are in the same ICU getting the same treatment as all the other sick babies and it's just luck/fate/whatever whether they are strong enough to recover or not.
Also this was preventable, a STUPID mistake. Which is why everyone's so shocked about it. I don't know what 10000 kids dying has to do with anything. People are dying all day every day but it's still sad when you look at the individual cases.

@112/ Addison Jordan: Well, poor thing, you got it all wrong. Do you think because some morons make fun of a mother dying, it's ok to trivialize the pain of seeing two newborns fighting for their life? Your comment might have been meaningful when those braindead racists showed amusement on the death Kanye's mother. Posted here, however, they just prove you are biased to the bone yourself. Anti-racist means being pro-humanity, equal rights for all, respect for every human being and so on and so forth, get it? A mother dying after surgery is a tragedy, two babies being overdosed is a tragedy, You will never take MY right to feel sorry for parents and children suffering, black or white, yellow or green, straight or gay, big or small, just because I won't let you tell me whom to feel sorry for. That said, I feel sorry for you, because you want to fight for a just cause - like standing up against racism - but are to dumb to know how to do it. hehe - sad fool.

Can he sue if the twins get brain damage?

Or is malpractice suits another of one those outlawed terrorist activities?

Oh my gosh. If these were my kids i would personally punch that nurse in the face.

how could somebody make such a stupid mistake?!

hope they're okay...:S

Wow...even celebrities don't know about the vaccine and Vitamin K (Herparin) injection scams. Thought they had inside info we common folk don't have!

On 3/5/06, Cheryl was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for routine dialysis as a result of problems with her home dialysis machine. Cheryl had been receiving dialysis for several years due to renal issues, so this was not unusual.

When Cheryl was admitted to the hospital on 3/5/06, a staff physician conducted a standard exam at admission. The exam report on 3/5/06 does not mention any external injuries; in fact, the report states that all external areas were normal.
On the first night of Cheryl's stay, Cheryl suffered head trauma and soon after that she went into a coma. Cheryl was dropped on her head and/or severely beaten. I questioned hospital staff numerous times about these unexplained injuries.
After my mom suffered head injuries, the hospital falsified records starting the next day, 3/6/06, to make it appear that Cheryl was in a car accident that caused the injuries in question.

I have photos of Cheryl in which, according to her treating physician, Dr. Blumenkrantz, “she looks like she got beat up by Mike Tyson.” At all time Dr. Blumenkrantz was obstructive about my mom’s chances of recovering from her injuries. In addition, while requesting physical therapy, Dr. Blumenkrantz refused to give my mom any therapy and left inappropriate messages on my machine regarding my request for physical therapy. These messages were left as she was starting to get sores on her bottom (see picture dates), but they were still not nearly as bad as they became.
First message:

Hi Stephanie, this is Dr. Blumenkrantz. I would like to continue to take care of your mom. I have been taking care of her for eight years, your mom wants me to continue to take care of her. I can not…We can not talk effectively. I can not deal with an immature, uh, teenager, uh who’s out of control, and umm, and uhh, it’s very upsetting to me, I try to be nice. I understand that you are angry, etc. which is a normal reaction to your mom being sick. But, it’s getting worse and worse more and more demanding and more and more antagonistic and more threatening. So, I am not going to be talking to you any more, I am going to be talking to Therese and Dan, uh, and inform them on what’s going on with your mom and uh, you can get the information from them. But, I do want to continue to take care of your mom, we have a nice relationship and I think I can do the best job possible taking care of her.
Second Message:
Stephanie, I apologize for telling you to shut up. But, umm, I have trouble dealing with you and obviously you have trouble dealing with me. Umm, I have a heart condition, I am 63 years old, I have taken excellent care of your mom for the last eight years, including this admission and umm, this is just not a uh a way, a mature way to deal with issues. I suggest that you talk with your psychiatrist about, uh dealing with the doctors and making demands, etc. I have been doing medicine for almost 40 years and I have never had to deal with a family member like you. Umm, so, I think it’s best that I talk to umm ,pause, your sister and brother about what’s going on with your mom and, uh, talk with your mom also and get her permission for issues. Umm, I am sorry, and I always always through your mom had affection for you and how nice it was that you were doing. But, this is not a very mature relationship and uhh, I can not deal with this. Umm, thank you.
These messages were sent on 4/30/2006, 9am.

Over the next few months, Cheryl's condition began to deteriorate. Cheryl suffered through multiple pressure sores all over her body. The hospital failed to rectify them. The hospital also failed to give Cheryl physical therapy, which reduced her mobility. I tried to do it myself by moving my mom's joints for her, but at one point I broke my arm and I could not continue to do so. My mom became stiff as a board. Her hands became gangrenous, as did a large portion of her head. I have photos of all of this.

The hospital's stories didn't add up. First, my mom suffered severe head trauma and went into a coma. Then, the hospital neglected her, which caused pressure sores and stiffness that they wouldn't treat sufficiently.

Due to further neglect by the hospital, my mom's decubitus ulcers worsened, turning into grotesque Stage IV lesions on her tailbone and other parts of her body. My mom's legs split open and bled. My mom's hand, one or two of her toes, and part of her head turned gangrenous(I have photos to review).

As we came close to the time in the law suit, where my mom was supposed to do a deposition for the hospital, she was completely off the trach and on the trach collar, finally a speech therapist came one time to try and have my mom talk. The speech therapist came in for five minutes with my mom, she put the blocker on my mom’s trach to see if she could talk and a little bit of sound started to come out of my mom’s voice. The speech therapist was shocked quickly took it off and said we would not be able to do any more until Monday, this was Friday. But, Sunday, night my mom went into the ICU and about a month later she died. The day the speech therapist came into my mom’s room my mom’s weight was about 125 lbs. The day my mom died, she weighed about 170 lbs from the dialysis fluid they would add and then not remove from my mom’s body. This close to 50 percent increase in her weight would have course be horrible on her heart and lungs and now they had to pump/breathe through so much more and unnecessary fluid
In the last weeks of my mom's life, things appeared grave. One physician, Dr. Hadian, at Cedars told me on Friday, June 13, 2007 that my mom was like a crystal that has broken into many pieces and that, while [I] can be paid for the crystal, I would never get the crystal back.

I was shocked to hear that, because around that time it seemed like the hospital staff was purposely reducing my mom's care. They wanted me to start giving her sugar water instead of food and they were trying to stop her dialysis altogether. In fact, her main doctor, Dr. Kir Uomoto, informed me that the house staff was threatening my mom’s new nephrologist, Dr. Jack Ditlove, to stop dialysis. I as Cheryl's conservator, would not allow this to happen, and I would try to make sure they were giving her dialysis and food. However, since I stopped the hospital from ending dialysis, the hospital got around me by adding the dialysis fluid to Cheryl's body but not removing it. The hospital stopped correctly removing my mom’s (Cheryl's) dialysis fluid in June 2007. Even I, a layperson, know that not removing dialysis fluid will eventually cause the patient's death. My mom gained 50 pounds over the next three to four weeks. The hospital ignored my requests to make sure her dialysis fluid was properly removed.

On 7/27/07, two days before my mom's death, someone on the hospital staff removed her rectal tube, which was necessary for her to expel waste. When I got to the hospital that evening, I saw one of the physicians, Dr. Hadian, in my mom’s room, she was just leaving. I asked Dr. Hadian what she was doing, and Dr. Hadian said to me that she “was just rearranging some of the tubes.” Dr. Hadian then said she couldn't talk and had to go. I immediately noticed that my mom's rectal tube was gone. I frantically asked the hospital staff what happened to the rectal tube, but they all denied that my mom ever had the tube.

On 7/28/07, late afternoon, I saw fecal matter start to come up through my mom's GI feeding tube. This is when I began to panic. I first tried to get some answers from the hospital staff and get x-rays performed to see what was happening and why my mom wasn't expelling any waste through her rectum. None were forthcoming. I called my mom's main doctor concerned about the fecal matter. He left a message on my machine, which I have a copy of stating.

Stephanie, Dr. Uomoto, so I talked to the house staff they spoke with Dr. Karambie who recommended to hold the feedings for a total of three hours and then resume them. So, I I think that is reasonable, so I don’t, I don’t think that is going to do her any harm. Ummm. So, you know whatever, however, long it has been held, if it’s been held or an hour or two hours, they will hold it for a total of three and then restart the feedings, so, uhh. And I asked and uhh I talked to Dr. Karambie and have him call you tomorrow and have him kinda explain what’s going on GY..GI wise. Honestly, I don’t know I don’t know what’s going on with the, uhhh, the dark stuff. So, I will have Dr. Karambie call you. Uhh. OK If you have any questions give me a call. Bye. Received Saturday July 28th at 6:02 pm.

I called him back and again explained to him that fecal matter appeared to be coming out of my mom's GI feeding tube. He said that they would temporarily stop the feeding and that the nurse would measure the fecal matter as it flowed out of the GI feeding tube and that I could not get any x-rays done, or have anything checked he assured me that she would be fine until the next morning when Dr. Karambie would be able to assess her and find out what is wrong. He told me that Dr. Karambie would see her the next morning at around 7 or 7:30am. I called my attorney via his paralegal (whom discussed the situation with my mom’s attorney), this was the only time I ever called the attorney’s office stating it’s an immediate emergency, I was told that my attorney and his firm were not responsible for my mom’s situation in the hospital and that he was only her attorney regarding the law suit and could not do anything to help her.

I stayed at the hospital all night. I asked the nurse and house staff whether or not the feeding should be stopped or to have it stay on, they said that it should stay on 10cc. The next morning Dr. Karambie did not show up and I began requesting x-rays, etc. to be done. Then, at around 9/9:30, Dr. Uomoto showed up and said that it was too late nothing could be done and that my mom was going to die.

I began to get upset as he had assured me she would be ok until now and he said that he was sorry but that nothing could be done. Soon after this Dr. Karambie showed up and said nothing could be done to save her and he refused to do any x-rays, etc. He said it was too late and she was too sick to do anything. Soon after this conversation, my mom died. I was also told by my mom’s attorney on the case that once my mom died her case against the hospital died with her. This gives the hospital a huge motive to kill my mom. In addition, on several occasions I tried having my mom transferred to another hospital. But, Cedars-Sinai would tell me that “she was not a candidate” and when I would ask why they said that once she is in their hospital if they are capable of doing whatever it is that she needs, I can’t transfer her to another hospital.

After my mom’s death, it was very difficult for me to get the body from the hospital. First, they informed me in front of several witnesses that an autopsy isn’t possible, except by them and they wanted me to sign a form. I told them, that I wanted someone else to do the autopsy and they said that would not be possible as A. my mom’s body is not a coroner’s case and even if it were it would cost over $5000. I said I did not care how much it would cost, I still wanted an autopsy done out of the hospital. I arranged for Forest Lawn to pick up her body, and when forest lawn tried to pick up her body the hospital refused to give them the body and said that she was a coroner’s case and would go to the coroner. I had Forest Lawn call Cedars-Sinai again with me present and this time we told Cedars-Sinai, if she is a coroner’s case we will make sure the coroner’s office picks her up otherwise Forest Lawn will pick her up, it is up to them. They then finally allowed Forest Lawn to then pick her up and from there I took my mom’s body to a private autopsy person. The private autopsy person started to do the autopsy and said that my mom’s body was is such horrific shape that he had never seen anything like it in even his previous 20+ years experience at the LA County Coroner’s Office. (aka, she had what appeared to be fecal matter in all in strange parts of her body and horrific stage IV ulcers all over her body including her head, and was gangrenous on part of her head and hand.)
Looking forward to your possible help,
Stephanie Bunt
310-592-9844
stephanie_bunt@yahoo.com

@121... wtf?

I hope this is the last we will hear of the QUAIDS! There wasn't a peep out of the third victim given the same overdose, hmmm wonder why? Maybe because the Quaids are publicity seeking whores and should shut their pieholes now and tell their relatives to shut the fu ck up too.

Think Dennis Quaid was given an overdose of something when he was a kid because he is mentally retarded.

Dennis Q. is the most narcissistic guy and should shut the hell up already. Yeah he's a Christian, praying etc. All of a sudden he's religious, my ass. He's a drug addict, womanizing conceited asshole.