Am I grasping at straws..
I really need to know if I’m grasping at straws here…
My daughter has HLHS and was doing well. She had no issues. One day she fell, hit her head and vomited. We calmed her down and she was fine. A few days later she stumbled landed in her bottom and started vomiting. My husband and I rushed her to the er cause we thought she had a concussion.
The er team didn’t do anything. No blood tests, no ekg, no echos. All they did was check her sats, watched her walk.(which we told them she was a little wobbly) At one point they had us let her try eating and drinking. Which she vomited, after that they gave her anti nausea meds and sent us home. My husband did ask them why they weren’t doing anymore tests, like an xray to check her head and they told us it wasn’t a big enough fall to need tests. All we did was sit in a room for 5 hours. The nurse popped in maybe twice during that time.
4 days later my daughter died.
Looking back and just checking Google they should’ve done blood tests, ekg and echos for the symptoms of falling and vomiting because that’s a red flag for heart failure… which I didn’t know.
I’m tempted to contact a medical malpractice lawyer but I’m not sure if I’m just looking for someone to blame… my husband is on board to at least talk to a lawyer but I’m not sure if I’m being unreasonable.
I can’t help to think that if they ran tests my daughter could still be alive.