Sue Ackerson had urine collecting in her body with essentially no way for it to escape.
Eighteen days earlier, in October 2005, an OB-GYN named Dr. Thomas J. Byrne had performed a vaginal hysterectomy on her at Craig General, a small hospital in the rural town of Vinita, Oklahoma.
“I was like a human septic tank,” Ackerson recalled in an interview with Gothamist. “I actually looked like I was about nine months pregnant. I thought my stomach was going to explode.”
For Ackerson, it was the beginning of a three-year journey that would end with a settlement in a medical malpractice lawsuit.
“I was pretty sure my husband thought I was not going to survive,” she said.
Ackerson’s lawsuit claimed that during the surgery, Byrne had injured her ureters, the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder….
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