Kristen Johnson and her husband, pastor Alexander Johnson, are sharing their story after the mother reportedly was neglected at a Houston, Texas, hospital following the birth of their now 4-year-old son.
Johnson went to the emergency room after she says she suffered from excruciating pain following the birth of her first child. She received an emergency C-section at the hospital and was discharged after four days.
On the fifth day, Johnson said that she began experiencing excruciating pain. “I couldn’t breathe,” she said.
Alexander Johnson called 911, and during the couple’s first trip to the emergency room, his wife was told by a doctor that she had misaligned ribs. The doctor also failed to properly examine Johnson, who also suffers from sickle cell anemia.
Kristen Johnson said the doctor told her, “Well, I’ll save you a few thousand dollars and we won’t do any of the tests. Let’s walk around one time in the ER. If you’re feeling okay, I’ll send you home,” she told “The Isiah Factor Uncensored” on FOX 26 Houston.
“We were offended,” added Alexander Johnson, noting that they had health insurance and weren’t worried about medical expenses. “It seemed a bit dismissive, but he’s the expert in that moment.”
Alexander Johnson said that his wife was discharged with back pain, but she began to have more pain the following day as well as a fever and went back to the ER.
Kristen Johnson said that she sat in the ER for more than an hour with no pain medication before finally being seen after her husband demanded that an attending physician examine her. She said that the staff told her they couldn’t give her any medication until they knew what was going on. Johnson said they eventually took her for a CT scan.
“They took me into CT,” she recalled. “I was maybe out of CT for five or 10 minutes before they came in told me that I had a blood clot in both of my lungs.”
The doctor told the…
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