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On 6/8/15 I went in to labor I recieved an epidural around 3:15 am, later on between 3:45 and 5:45am the nurse came in my room a few times to clean me up from where my water broke. One of the times she came in she went to open my lega (she was standing on the left side of me). She pushed open my right leg and it fell off the bed, it flopped down so hard that I injured my sciatic nerve whe my leg hit the edge of the bed. Since the incident I have numbness and tingling feeling below the knee along with no motor in my right foot. I have been going to physical therapy 2 times weekly since the incident occurred, I have had to find a second neurologist because the one at the hospital kept ignoring me when I told him my leg of the bed, and kept trying to tell me it was epidural related. My new neurologist did more testing and found out it isn't epidural related it's, related to when my leg fell off the bed. I can't even drive. My neurologist says this could take a year.
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In Ohio, patients have a 1 year statue of limitation within which to file a medical malpractice claim. The one year runs from the later of the date of the malpractice, the date the patient knew or should have know of the malpractice, or the date the patient last consulted with the medical provider alleged to have committed the malpractice.
From what you have described, I recommend treat the statute of limitation as beginning to run as of the date of the incident.
If you new neurologist will actually put in writing what he has told you, along with a detailed explanation of causal relationship, then you have something that you can present to a medical malpractice attorney.
However, be prepared to need several thousands of dollars for litigation expenses. You sound like you may have a viable claim and you should at least retain counsel to investigate further.
Answered on Aug 25th, 2015 at 1:50 PM
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