A Texas mother who endured intensive chemotherapy treatment to fight terminal cancer learned after writing her goodbye letters that she may have been the victim of medical error all along.
“I didn’t tell my family it was terminal or that I only had 15 months left. I just said that the diagnosis was bad, that I was going to try to fight it (…) It was a very dark period. I was writing goodbye letters, and letters to grandchildren I would never meet,” Lisa Monk recounted in a series of videos on TikTok, according to the New York Post.
The ordeal of the 39-year-old mother would have started in 2022, when she presented herself at the hospital with stomach pains, linked to two kidney stones and a mass on her spleen.
The following January, she reportedly underwent surgery to remove the mass, which was sent to four labs for testing.
It was then that one of them would have detected a rare form of cancer, an angiosarcoma, leaving her with a grim prognosis of 15 months to live, the woman continued, according to the American media.
The mother of two young children would have had no other choice than to announce the news to her little family, before embarking on a first “aggressive” chemotherapy session in March 2023, the woman continued. .
It was only after her second round of chemotherapy that she learned, during a routine check-up a month later, that she had in fact never had cancer.
“All of a sudden the nurse stops talking and has this look on her face. She turned to me and looked completely horrified and told me she had to go see the doctor (…) He spoke to me a lot in medical jargon, before saying I couldn’t I didn’t have cancer,” continued the thirty-year-old.
Anyone who initially believed that the treatments had already taken effect would quickly have realized that it was in fact only a medical error.
“The doctor then told me that I never had cancer. (At that point) I looked like I had cancer and I felt like I had cancer because I was vomiting and I was sick and my skin was silver from the chemotherapy.” , she clarified.
What’s more, she would have realized, when looking at her pathology report at home, that the hospital had had information on her situation for a month, meaning she would never have had to undergo the second chemotherapy if the report had been consulted earlier.
A year later, the family deplored still suffering the mental, emotional and especially financial after-effects of the medical error, while they would fight to have the treatment bills reimbursed, they would have indicated according to the NY Post.
In the comments, several Internet users advised him to hire a lawyer to sue the hospital, but it is not clear if any steps have been taken.
