When you read forums and somebody says they are heading for hysterectomy, almost always one or two participants stands up saying that hysterectomy was the best thing that ever happened to them in their lives! OK, maybe that’s how it was for them, but not everybody has their own little “happy hysterectomy”. The case in point is Christine from Atlanta, let’s quote from this article:

Exactly one week after the hysterectomy, Christine awoke in horrible pain and immediately went to her doctor’s office. When she passed out in his waiting room, an ambulance took her to a hospital.

A CT scan revealed urine was accumulating in her abdomen. Christine says her doctor explained what he thought went wrong: When he was using a cauterizing tool, he must have nicked the ureter, the duct that carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder. “He really owned up to it,” Christine says.

The next day, her doctor implanted a nephrostomy tube, so Christine’s urine could accumulate in a bag outside her body. A week later, she had a third procedure to insert an internal stent to replace the tube and the bag. When that stent caused her pain, doctors removed it in a fourth surgery. Today, Christine is scheduled to have a fifth procedure to fix her ureter, which has become almost completely blocked by scar tissue.

Grant says the complication that caused all these problems — the nicking of a ureter — would most likely be considered a regular complication of the surgery, and not negligence. This means that even though Christine has clearly suffered, she wouldn’t have a case. “Just because you have a bad outcome doesn’t mean you can sue,” he says.

Since she lives in the USA, her relatives wanted her to sue, but it doesn’t seems it is possible — her costs are too small for an attorney to have a profit at court. (That’s what happens when you live in a profit driven justice system.) She is not well, and the money is gone. Being a physician herself, she knows how major surgeris can be dangerous…

Bottom line: avoid hysterectomy if you can.

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