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Virginia Hospital Harms Toddler Fighting Cancer
Posted on Jan 13, 2012
When the family of a child diagnosed with leukemia took her into Water Reed for her three week chemotherapy regimen they knew it would be a struggle—but had no idea how hard it would be.
The then two year old Kendall Heun was held by her mother as she received what the family thought was the first of many small doses of the drug Doxorubicin. Instead, the medical staff administered a dose that was more than the amount she was to receive over the three week period.
Long and Short Term Damage
Kendall immediately reacted to the extremely high dose. According to her mother, Melanie Heun, it was very clear that something was wrong.
“She went a lobster red color,” says Heun. “It almost looked like she was burning from the inside out.”
The affects did not end there. As time passed it was clear that the dose was harming Kendall in more ways than one. The toddler was in extreme pain and was even given morphine to help take some of the pain a way.
“She was screaming at the top of her lungs and she wouldn’t let me touch her,” said Ms. Heun.
In addition, her white blood cell count bottomed out, remaining at zero for many weeks. Long term, the very real threat is that the drug will cause serious and irreversible damage to the little girls’ heart.
Family Hopes for a Full Recovery and Compensation
Only time will tell if the serious dosing error will cause permanent damage. The Heun’s have filed a claim to hopefully pay for future care their daughter will need due to damage done by the chemotherapy drug overdose.
The staff and attorneys at the Virginia Beach medical malpractice law firm of Tavss Fletcher hope that Kendall’s cancer stays in remission and that her long term health is not affected by the terrible medical mistake.
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