I lost my eyesight due to negligence of hospital, I laid there for three hours after an eye injury with no ice

Question

after 3 hours of no attention, no ice pack or anything they tell me I are going to send me somewhere else as the have noone who can help me, 2 hours later they fly me to another hospital an hour away.

At this hospital they cut my tendons in my eye and poked a hole in my eye to releive pressure, they tell me I am blind and that the other hospital should have kept ice on my eye and transported me by ground so it would not have hemmoraged and I would still have sight.

the new doctors said you only have 60-90 minutes to get the pressure off the optic nerve before suffering irreversable damage.

I lost my dominant eye, I am 36 years old and feeling pretty helpless now, should I litigate?

Answer 1

Right now it's more important to get yourself the skills you need to live as a partially blind person. Contact your local government agency for the blind and visually impaired. Malpractice lawsuits can wait until your life is more stable.

Answer 2

It's easy for doctors to know how things can be prevented once it's over and they know the cause or it's gone wrong. Not so easy at the time. Also it's a long drawn out process to go through all that legal stuff, it may make you feel worse. But if you think it will help you grieve for the loss of your eyesight and they were in the wrong, then go for it.

Answer 3

I would. the carelessness of the hospital caused you to lose something that you can never get back