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Meningitis outbreak: Suffering prolonged for survivors, families
Jan. 20, 2013 2:20 AM, |
Written by
Walter F. Roche Jr. and Nate Rau
The Tennessean
It was in mid-October that Patricia Martin got the call from her brother Larry. The message was simple: If you want to see our mother alive, you better come now.
She rushed to Skyline Medical Center, and the moment she stepped off the elevator a ?Code Blue? was called.
Mary Neal Martin, 89, had just suffered a stroke in what would become the final blow in a desperate but hopeless battle against fungal meningitis brought on by a tainted steroid injected in her spine.
She died on Oct. 25 after her transfer to Alive Hospice in Madison, just a little more than seven weeks after receiving the back pain treatment...
Meningitis outbreak: Suffering prolonged for survivors, families
Jan. 20, 2013 2:20 AM, |
Written by
Walter F. Roche Jr. and Nate Rau
The Tennessean
It was in mid-October that Patricia Martin got the call from her brother Larry. The message was simple: If you want to see our mother alive, you better come now.
She rushed to Skyline Medical Center, and the moment she stepped off the elevator a ?Code Blue? was called.
Mary Neal Martin, 89, had just suffered a stroke in what would become the final blow in a desperate but hopeless battle against fungal meningitis brought on by a tainted steroid injected in her spine.
She died on Oct. 25 after her transfer to Alive Hospice in Madison, just a little more than seven weeks after receiving the back pain treatment...