“When I went back there and saw her, my first question was: ‘OK, do we need to call the ambulance or are you all going to call the ambulance?'”
“And they said: ‘We’re just going to try to get her to calm down. We’re going to monitor her. We’re going to watch her. You guys have nothing to worry about, but we do need you all to wait in the waiting room and let her rest so she can walk back out of here,'” Clark recalled.
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“The whole time they just assured us that everything was OK. The next time we were allowed to come in is when the paramedics were actually coming back.”
An attorney for the family Jim Moriarity, held up a chart at the press conference, showing little Nevaeh’s vitals during the procedure. At one point the child’s oxygen levels got down to 49 per cent and her heartbeat went up to a racing 196 beats per minute.
“In essence what happened is this child was chemically and physically suffocated,” Jim Moriarty said. “This child suffered massive brain damage during that time period and that didn’t have to happen.”
Nevaeh’s parents are now threatening to sue the practice and Dr Jefferson, but they say no legal victory will reverse the damage Dr Jefferson has done.
“At this point there’s nothing else that can be done to get that same four year old back. It hurts to see her like that,” Clark said.
Nevaeh’s father Derrick Hall broke down in tears as be spoke about his brain-damaged daughter.
“It’s heartbreaking. It really is like…I never in a million years would have thought something like this would happen,” Hall told ABC news affiliate, KTRK.
The family has created a GoFundMe page to help with the costs of Nevaeh’s medical bills.
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