5 Months - Accountability

Cassandra passed away 5 months ago today and we still don't have any answers. The doctors haven't finished their reports, the autopsy isn't complete, and our beautiful little girl is still gone. I don't know at all if finally understanding how Cassie died is going to be of any relief. The concept of "closure" is, of course, ridiculous. I think the worst part of the medical aspect is the proposition that no one will be held accountable. I want someone held accountable. That's very different from saying I want someone to pay for what they did - and I want someone to pay big time - but someone needs to be held accountable.

When Cassandra had her spinal surgery, the nurses at Childrens National Medical Center in Washington DC didn't do their jobs and didn't monitor Cassie's urine output and she went over 36 hours without being able to empty her bladder. I'll tell the whole sotry another time, but to summarize Cassie lost the use of her bladder and from that day forward we had to catheder Cassie every few hours to empty her bladder. We rose a big stink with CNMC and they were pretty responsive. The details of her case were reveiwed and they decided to amend their procedures to make sure all infants were to have special catheder procedures going forward to insure that they were producing urine post surgery. That's accountability - make sure it doens't happen to another kid.

I hope, at the very least, whatever went wrong in the hospital 5 months ago is identified, the right people are educated, and whatever happened to Cassandra doesn't happen again to someone else's beautiful little kid.