Hospital admitted liability!!!

[Surprisethird]

Well, where do I start
I am currently 20 weeks pregnant, with my third child, I have a son who is 14 and a daughter that is 8, and to be 100% honest, that was our family complete with the two. However back in 2010 I got caught pregnant on the copper coil, I really did not want another baby and decided on a termination, when they scanned me they found a large dermoid cyst on my right ovary, which seem to be doubling in size because of my pregnancy, my wish to terminate was better for me anyway, as the cyst could not be removed until the pregnancy was removed and then I had to wait three months until the blood flow to my ovary had calmed down due to my pregnancy, I also had half my ovary removed too and this was done my laparotomy, a c-section cut to the bottom if my tummy ( had two previous c-sections)
Back in 2012 I had a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in my lung) and was banned of the pill for life, I the found a huge lump in my stomach and this time it was a bigger cyst on my left ovary, so in may 2013 I had my op to remove the cyst as well as my whole left ovary, luckily the cyst was mostly fluid so it was removed my keyhole. The surgeon offered me to have the mirena coil put in during my op, as I had only half a right ovary left and at 33 she did not want be growing another cyst and losing the remaining half and ovary and gong through the menopause. This was good for me as we was running out of options and just using condoms, which is a pain. So had op, asked the discharge person (who was not in the op) if coil had been out in ok , which he confirmed and I never thought no more about it, until here months later I skipped my period! And realised I was pregnant! To cut a long story short, they have just admitted in writing the coil was never put in as they forgot to do it and never told me!

I have been waiting for this letter since October and it has come today, I never thought they would admit it, I thought they would try and wriggle out of it!
So now I am quite relieved as I plan on going to my solicitor, who told me the hardest bit would be getting them to admit it!

Well done if you have managed to read this!!!

Oh wow you really have had a rough time! So are you now looking forward to your pregnancy?
I hope you get some justice there! X

Congratulations and congratulations. What an odd combination of emotions you must be going through.

Just getting my head round it to be honest, I was really down the first three months, not helped b? the hormones, I am very scared about the c-section I have to have and also because I have had a blood clot I Am at high risk, so I have to inject myself with clexaine each day which is not pleasant, but other than that I will get there! To be honest I am trying to look at the positive, I lost my dad to cancer at the end of m'ay 2012 and both my grandads taht year too, and I feel like we need some new life in the family x

Wow ! Did you see the story in the daily fail about the woman who had a non working implant put in ? she got a fair payout, it wasn't that she didn't want the child, it was more that they failed to do what she asked. Hope you get somewhere. Though i am surprised you never noticed, i can feel mine as can my dh feel it sometimes, also they are meant to be checked 6 weeks after being put in.

Yes, tinkerbell666, I know what you mean, I have the mirena, but I guess it is more a case of 'if you've got it you know about it' - if you've never had it you wouldn't know you needed a 6 week check and you wouldn't know that you can feel the strings.

Well I have had coils before but I have a long cervix so it is impossible to feel myself or for my partner to feel, I have to have a extra long metal thing for smears lol! And I didn't even think about the 6 week check to be honest, I only learnt about that after and then remembered on my
Previous coil I had that but it was over 8 years ago so it just didn't enter my memory banks at the time! No I have not read that I will have to have a look for the story,

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Wow, what a tough few years. I'm really pleased the hospital have admitted they made a mistake. I'm glad your over the shock now and hope the pregnancy runs smoothly.

Lougle, lol!!!!
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Yes they have put new procedures in, as I asked in my complaint letter what they could do o stop this happening in the future and they have 4 new procedures in place , so that's good.

I forgot to mention in my original post, that I never cnsidered a termination this time, as it took me over a year to get over the one I had, I felt a huge guilt and cried nearly every day for a year and then after a year my dad gt diagnosed with cancer and I kept thinking that was my punishment, I know it's daft, but since the termination I had three terrible years of my health and family disasters, so I felt this time I had no choice but to go through with the pregnancy and I know when ithe baby is born , I will be completely in love and not worry about anything then