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Mom who lost hands & feet ’so happy to be out’ of hospital
Friday, November 21st 2008, 8:50 PM
Smith for News
With attorney Sanford Rubenstein on her right and son Enrique on her left, Tabitha Mullings talks to the press at Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation in midtown, where she will undergo therapy.
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A Brooklyn mom was released Friday from the hospital where, she says, a medical bungle turned her into a quadruple amputee.
Tabitha Mullings, who is beginning a long and arduous rehab, is suing Brooklyn Hospital Center for failing to treat an infection that developed into sepsis, leaving her an invalid and blind in one eye.
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The 32-year-old mother of three was wheeled out of the hospital accompanied by her son Enrique, 12, and gulped fresh air for the first time since her medical nightmare began two months ago.
“People told me it was cold outside, but I just wanted to feel the air and the sun on my face,” Mullings told the Daily News, which first reported her tragic story.
“I was so happy to be out of that hospital; it’s a relief,” she added.
Mullings went to the Fort Greene hospital’s emergency room in pain on Sept. 14.
Doctors diagnosed it as a kidney stone, gave her painkillers and sent her home, her lawyer said. After the pain intensified the next day, her fiancé rushed her to the hospital.
Her infection choked off blood flow to her hands and feet and she lapsed into a semicoma for two weeks. When she awoke, doctors told her they had to amputate.
Mullings steeled herself Friday to begin a regimen of rehab, therapy and counseling.
After Mullings settled in a private room at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation in midtown, her limbs were cleaned and freshly bandaged.
“I know this is the place that is going to get me back on my feet,” she said later in the hospital atrium.
“I want to thank God for giving me a chance to live through this. My goal is to walk out of this hospital with my hands and legs before Christmas so I can spend it with my family and friends. The first thing I will do is hug my kids as tight as possible.”
Her lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, called Mullings “a role model for those who suffer a tragedy.”
*live your life one day at a time, and no matter what just keep on breathing.
*It doesn’t matter whether you win or not, it only matters how you play the game.
*what goes around comes around
*you are never alone
*everything happens for a reason, something good always comes from it.
*In life, there’s good days and there’s shitty days. If you live your life the best you can, eventually the good days will level off the shitty ones.
*always be open to different opinions
*what you see in the mirror (and how you see yourself on the inside) isn’t whats really there. Your insecurities are always magnafied..
*you shouldnt talk dirt about people or put them down because truly you are only doing it to make yourself feel better
*treat people the way you want to be treated.
*be grateful for what you have…even if it may seem like nothing, you wont realize how important it is until it’s gone.
*it’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
*if something is wrong, do your best to fix it because sitting there feeling sorry for yourself will only make things worse.
*lifes not perfect…sometimes you have to settle for the next best thing.
*there is no such thing as a life filled with nothing but happiness. Even if there was it wouldn’t be a good life because you wouldn’t be a strong person.
*dont focus on the past, it just wastes the day
*most people arent as strong as they seem…everyone has weaknesses
When you win say nothing, when you lose say less.
People call it good luck when you have acted more sensibly than they have.
There are memorable moments in life not days, months or years.
Work is a slice of your life; it is not the entire pizza.
Never fear shadows it is a sign of light near by
No one plants a garden and receives a harvest overnight. You have to water those seeds, nurture them and patiently await the season of growth and finally, reaping.