You know how sometimes when you take something apart, you forget where all the pieces go?
Apparently, that's exactly what brain surgery is like.
Detroit's Local 4 reports, Edna Burton went into Ascension St. John Hospital for a hemicraniectomy to relieve pressure after a stroke, which involved removing part of the skull, and then somehow that piece of her skull got mixed up with some other person's bones and then lost.
See? Extra parts and a missing one!
Just like my old toaster!
The hospital had to add a prosthetic piece to cover Burton's brain. Her family claims this has seriously affected her health.
Her family says,
She now requires nursing home care, is bed-bound, and depends on a feeding tube.
‘She stopped talking, really, stopped eating, like bed-bound, she had bed sores,' said Burton's daughter, Erica Burton. ‘Her physical therapist said I'm not going to continue to do physical therapy because we're torturing her with how much pain she's in.'
The hospital denies that the prosthetic has any connection to her current quality of life.
They haven't denied this yet, however:
The family says hospital administrators attempted to apologize by offering them a $25 gas card, which they found ‘very insulting.'
The family is suing.
‘It's not even about the money. You don't know what you took from us,' Erica Burton said. ‘I got a 20-month-old baby, a 5-year-old daughter, and an 8-year-old son. It's like, please let them remember their nana.'
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