00:00An induction mixed with medical negligence stole my daughter's life.
00:04My daughter suffered a severe traumatic brain injury during birth called HIE
00:08due to an induction that turned catastrophic.
00:12I had a 39-week induction under the presumption that inductions were safe.
00:16The Pitocin used to induce me ruptured my uterus.
00:20I had what's called a slow rupture.
00:21It started real small and then gradually grew.
00:24This complication poses a serious risk to the baby and mother if ignored.
00:28And that's exactly what the staff did.
00:30When my rupture happened, I felt it immediately.
00:32It is the most agonizing and painful thing you will ever feel in your whole life.
00:37And I alerted my nurse.
00:38I told her I felt an explosion in my abdomen.
00:41Instead of my nurse helping me, she went on to ignore and neglect me for over an hour.
00:44When the doctor finally came in, she was no better.
00:47The doctor's ignorance to the situation left her and her baby fighting for their lives for 60 gruesome minutes.
00:52I passed out and I didn't wake back up.
00:54Nothing, none of their efforts were working to wake me up at this point.
00:57So then I had the emergency C-section.
01:00While the doctors ignored her, her daughter was fighting for air.
01:03She went a little over 30 minutes without oxygen flow.
01:06So when they opened me up to do the C-section, she was purple from head to toe.
01:10She had no pulse and no effort to breathe.
01:12But despite these insurmountable odds, both her and her daughter pulled through.
01:17But not without complication.
01:18She is now living with a condition called cerebral palsy, caused by the doctor's neglect.
01:23But this doesn't stop her living her best life with mom.
01:26Jolene is five years old and she is just now learning how to walk.
01:30Cerebral palsy is a congenital disorder.
01:32It affects movement, muscle tone, and posture.
01:35Which is why things like learning how to walk can take years for kids like mine.
01:40And sometimes kids like mine never learn how to walk and that's okay.
01:43But when they do, walking typically looks like this.
01:45Kids like mine have to use a gait trainer.
01:48A gait trainer is an adaptive device that holds the child up and gives them support while they learn how to walk.
01:53But her daughter isn't the only one fighting.
01:56Her mother is navigating a confusing and scary world of medicine and misinformation.
02:00So over this last year, I've really been stepping away from modern medicine and trying experimental things, things that are controversial, things that aren't really recommended by typical neurologists and doctors.
02:15And I did this because following modern medicine and all of the recommendations was getting me out of there.
02:23She was still having life-threatening seizures.
02:26She wasn't meeting goals.
02:27She was just tired all the time.
02:29Like things just really weren't progressing.
02:32So I was like, what left do we have to lose?
02:34So I started by taking her off of the seizure medication she was on and she showed significant improvement, not only in seizure reduction, but she was more awake and alert.
02:46I took her to Mexico over the summer and did an experimental treatment called Cytotron.
02:50We did intensive therapy after that.
02:53She just got stem cells yesterday.
02:55And when we get back, she starts HBOT.
02:57But the thing is, when you dive into treatments like that, things that are not recommended by the doctors, things that are more experimental, the cost is 100% on the parents.
03:08So let me show you what it's really like.
03:11$18,000 in one day, mind you.
03:14They're both written on November 1st.
03:16$18,000 in one day.
03:19And that's only scratching the surface.
03:21These treatments are just, they're so costly.
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