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Who was abruptly taken from our family by CPS on 9/3/08 from Banner Desert Medical Hospital 1 DAY after Brain Surgery. Our Daughter's story begins on 11/06 when she went to Banner Desert Medical Hospital ER because she was vomiting and her blood pressure was 116/110.

Our daughter had just vomited and a DR states that our daughter "needs to calm down" so they ordered lortab ( a medication with vicodin in it) and our daughter was allergic to it. Our daughter began to have breathing problems and they transferred her to Banner Desert Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. For 5 hours and 45 minutes the DR did nothing about our daughter's stridorous breathing and then our daughter stopped breathing. No breathing tube was put in for several minutes and by then our daughter was in a COMA. At this point I knew from working in a rehab unit that our daughter's condition was very serious. Our daughter was still having breathing problems and in a COMA throughout the night. When the doctor checked her, she had No Gag Reflex, No Pain Reaction to Painful Stimuli and No Motor Function...The doctor said our daughter does not have any BRAINSTEM FUNCTION at this time. The following morning when I entered the Banner Desert Pediatric Intensive Care Unit our daughter was laying on her back with her arms and legs fully extended. With full body thrashing and bouncing the bed up and down. You could hear the bed bouncing up and down when you entered the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. I asked the DR about this and he said our daughter is "Willfully Doing This." Remember our daughter is in a COMA at this time. Our daughter was in a coma for 1 week. When she woke up her head would hang down when I talked to her or got her up for a shower at Banner Desert Hospital. To every question I asked her she would shrug her shoulders like " I Don't Know." She did not know her family members names or phone #'s, she did not know where she lived, she did not know her address. The Neurologist said she had Amnesia (loss of memory) The doctors had done multiple lumbar spinal taps to drain some of our daughter's spinal fluid. The Dr's kept draining spinal fluid and we would get a glimpse of our daughter, then the fluid would fill back up and she would not know her family

names or PH# anymore. on 11/22/06 a neurosurgeon from Phoenix Children's Hospital placed a external lumbar drain. (a drain on the outside of the spinal column to drain spinal fluid) (see our daughter was at a hospital with NO NEUROSURGICAL TEAM on staff.) 3 hours after the surgery our daughter woke up and knew our names for the first time in 3 weeks. But they continued to drain the spinal fluid and drained too much and our daughter went into the SECOND COMA. They took our daughter to the MRI/MRA scanner (MRI= Magnetic Resonance Imaging- a test that uses magnetic field and pulses or radio wave energy to make pictures of organs and structures) (MRA= Magnetic Resonance Angiogram- uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to provide pictures of blood vessels inside the body) to check for a Stroke and our daughter went into Cardiac Arrest in the MRI/MRA scanner and during the "CODE BLUE" they blew both of our daughter's lungs out. The Dr's told us to prepare ourselves that our daughter's brain may have HERNIATED and she may DIE. Our hearts dropped to our stomach hearing this. After having our daughter come out of the First Coma just 24 hours before. We were now facing a horrible reality that we may now LOOSE OUR DAUGHTER. When she came out of the MRI/MRA scanner she was all dusky and had a bunch of air under her skin from her lungs being blown out. At this point they suggested that they transfer our daughter to Barrow's Neurological Institution. A Neurological Facility in Phoenix and they did so 4 days later. But the same Dr's at Banner Desert Medical Hospital worked under a contract with Barrow's Neurological Institution in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit as internalists (like primary care physicians) so the Dr's continued to tell the family that everything was coming back "Normal" yet our daughter was not "Normal." Our daughter was at Barrow's hospital for 3 months. After she was discharged the doctors ordered Speech Therapy once a week and Physical Therapy twice a week and our daughter was on a BIPAP Ventilator machine at night to help her breath. Her diaphragm barely worked. Yet the doctor put in discharge summary that every test they did was coming back "Normal." At this point every red flag was popping up because I knew they were trying to cover-up all of these hospital mistakes. I went to several Medical Malpractice Attorney's and NO ONE would take on the case. Yet I had all these EVIDENCE OF MULTIPLE MISTAKES. I later found out the Neurosurgeon's Wife is an Attorney and this is Why no Medical Malpractice Attorney would take my case. On 7/9/08 the Neurosurgeon decided he would put in a shunt to try and control our daughter's increased intracranial fluid because her pressure were running as high as 28mm hg. (Normal intracranial pressure 5-15 mm hg) after the LUMBOPERITONEAL SHUNT surgery (a tube that drains fluid from your brain to your stomach) our daughter woke up in SEVERE PAIN for the first time since coming out of her Second COMA. The dr's started Oxycodone and Methodone for pain. I went to Upper Management at Barrow's Neurological Institution to explain what was going on. Upper management ordered some more tests and the Neurosurgeon came in and told us that our daughter HAS HAD a blood clot in her brain and that her body has taken care of it and now she has a PARTIAL LEFT TRANSVERSE SINUS OCCLUSION in her brain (a main passage way for venous blood flow) They then discharged our daughter but she was unable to stand up. I returned to Barrow's Neurological Hospital 2 days later on to have Upper Management come into our daughter's room 4 days after being admitted stating our daughter was going home. We explained that she is unable to walk to the nurses station. They them handed me a letter from the Neurosurgeon stating he was signing off on the case and then the hospital sent her home by AMBULANCE. I then wrote a letter to the Insurance Company stating our daughter needs a New Neurosurgeon because she still cannot stand up. The Insurance Company said they would Investigate the situation but did nothing about it and Denied the Second Opinion at another hospital and never got our daughter into another Neurosurgeon. On 8/14/08 our daughter woke up vomiting with her heart rate and B/P dropping when she stood up. I took her to Phoenix Children's Hospital and they said the shunt was "PULLING OFF TOO MUCH FLUID" and her "VENTRICLES HAD DECOMPRESSED" and they sent us back to Barrow's Neurological Hospital (they had sent our daughter home by ambulance 3 weeks earlier) At Barrow's Neurological Institution the Neurosurgeon that signed off on the case was on vacation and a new neurosurgeon told us that our daughter's mri scan showed "6 MM TONSILLAR HERNIATION" and the "SHUNT IS PULLING OFF TOO MUCH FLUID" but that he wants to speak to the Old Neurosurgeon before doing anything. By Monday night the old Neurosurgeon that signed off on the case called me at home and said he would come back on the case and take the shunt out. He said if the the intracranial pressures were too high he would look into placing another shunt and if they are too low he will look into doing another blood patch. On 8/19/08 our daughter had the Lumboperitoneal shunt removed. I tried to contact the CEO of Barrow's Neurological Institution to let her know that the hospital had sent our daughter home by AMBULANCE and now her BRAIN HAS HERNIATED. Her secretary said she would send someone to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit to talk to me but she sent the same Dr from upper management and this time he told me "YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE WHAT WE DO TO YOU NEXT" I explained that this is not about Upper Management and me this is about what is best for our daughter. He said "No, you have made this about you and Upper Management and he left. I had no idea at that time that they were planning to call CPS on me. On 8/21/08 the Neurosurgeon resident wrote in the Doctors Orders that the intracranial pressure would be monitored for 48 hours. But the next day the Neurosurgeon came in and said he was taking out the intracranial pressure monitor. I asked "Why, when you said you would leave it in for 48 hours and it is giving us such good numbers it explain our daughter's intracranial pressures.? The Neurosurgeon then became frustrated and angry at my questions and then went out to the chart and signed off on the case a SECOND TIME. At this point I asked to have our daughter sent OUT OF STATE. The hospital instead transferred us back to Banner Desert Hospital where the first coma occurred in 11/06 stating that they had a New Neurosurgeon on staff there. But unknown to me they were setting it up to call CPS on me. It was 8/22/08, the New Neurosurgeon came into the Pediatric Intensive Care at Banner Desert Hospital and explained that our daughter has BRAINSTEM COMPRESSION (not enough room for the brainstem to perform bodily functions like breathing, cardiac function and consciousness) and Chari Malformation (not enough room for the brainstem at the base of the skull) everything made sense to us. Why our daughter LOST BRAINSTEM FUNCTION, SEIZURES, INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURES, HOW SHE WOULD GO INTO RESPIRATORY ARREST AND CARDIAC ARREST. I thanked the New Neurosurgeon and let him know that I appreciated him explaining everything to me.At this point we finally felt like things were going to get a lot better and our daughter would not have to be in the hospital so much and she could get back to a more normal life. But by Monday morning the New Neurosurgeon came back in the room stating everything is "PSYCHOLOGICAL" and that our daughter does NOT have Brainstem Compression or Chari Malformation. AT this point I knew he had spoke with the Old Neurosurgeon because this is exactly what Barrow's Neurological and Banner Desert said when she was in the First coma that she was "willfully doing this." The New Neurosurgeon did Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and our daughter's ICP (intracranial pressures) were high so he said he wanted to put in a Ventricular Peritoneal Shunt. On 9/2/08 our daughter had surgery for the vp shunt at Banner Desert Hospital and everything was going well. Our daughter could stand up and she said she felt a lot better. We were so excited because she was finally feeling better and would be able to get back to school. But unknown to me the hospital had been working with CPS and 4 Dr's from Banner Desert Hospital signed a piece of paper stating our daughter returning home would "hinder her recovery." So one day after brain surgery a nurse told me the dr's wanted to talk to me but when I went into the room I found CPS telling me they were taking our daughter. I explained that we have a Major Medical Malpractice Lawsuit and this is why the DOCTORS are doing this to take the EVIDENCE "OUR DAUGHTER" AWAY FROM US so we cannot take her OUT OF STATE for a SECOND OPINION. CPS would not listen to a word I said and our daughter was placed in foster care on 9/3/08. They are trying to charge me with "MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY" which is where you fabricate or induce illness. The relatively uncommon condition involves the exaggeration or fabrication of illness or symptoms by a primary caregiver. Whenever there is a MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASE, the Dr's working with the HOSPITAL and INSURANCE COMPANIES will use this diagnosis to try and get out of the lawsuit. There is no data base to know how many times this is used around the world. Now CPS is telling me the allegations are "MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE." I took my daughter to every Dr's appt. and followed all doctor orders. I asked the Dr's questions when I did not understand things but I always followed through with what they ordered. I know how to read a chart and the Dr's handwriting as I have worked with some of the best Dr's in Phoenix, AZ. After we went to Upper Management at Barrow's Neurological Institution they said they would get us a "SECOND OPINION" but they never followed through with it. After we went to Upper Management and let them know that we wanted to have our daughter transferred OUT OF STATE for a "SECOND OPINION" it was at this point that they knew they had to make a desperate move and remove the "EVIDENCE" our daughter from our home because if we took her OUT OF STATE, the TRUE CONDITION would be diagnosed by other Dr's not the "CIRCLE OF DOCTORS AND CORRUPTION WE WERE ENTANGLED IN.