Foodborne Illness Video Testimonials -- Bernadette/Kate Jacobs
Listeria monocytogenes is the third leading cause of foodborne related deaths in the u.s. Bernadette and Kate are survivors I am Bernadette Jacobs I contracted listeriosis when I was 32 weeks pregnant with my third child from food poisoning I ate a sandwich I something as simple as a sandwich my kids had sports practices and we were running 50 million different directions that night and we stopped at a sandwich shop the rest of my family had become sick to their stomachs after we had eaten dinner at a particular place and we all had similar meals and so we figure 99% sure that that's where it came from because my immune system was depleted and I wasn't in premium health because I was pregnant it just made me that much sicker than it would have anyone else they figured out it was Listeria and they figured out that Listeria being a foodborne illness is where it was they asked me at that point to write down everything I'd eaten for 35 days the first time I went to see the doctor when I initially was ill with Listeria I was told that I had simply gained too much weight being pregnant I'd only gained 38 pounds which being 32 weeks gestation was not that much it wasn't my first child so I knew that that there was something wrong there was something just plain wrong I was short of breath I couldn't function the way I normally did never in a million years day I think it was connected to anything I ate not anything that I contracted I just thought there was something wrong with the pregnancy when I went to the hospital that Saturday which was two days after I was at the doctor's office I initially had been dismissed again I went to the emergency room and they thought that I had a sinus infection they thought that it was just typical pregnancy symptoms and I kept insisting no there's something wrong there's something more wrong a nurse that I knew came into the room she our kids had gone to preschool together and she recognized me and she said you know this isn't you this there's something definitely wrong this isn't you she took the initiative and within 30 minutes after she called the head of fetal medicine he was there and insisting an emergency c-section it came back that it had turned into bacterial Titus and it was from low stereo sus and it turned into sepsis and both the baby and myself and at this point they were just trying to treat both of us and save us both when Kate was born they initially knew that there was something wrong with the placenta the fluids everything else and within three days of blood work which during this time it was just a whirlwind it was a nightmare with how sick the baby was and critical and we didn't think she'd live our our I felt awful I felt absolutely awful my baby was dying they gave us about a fifteen percent chance that she would make it at all and even if she did that look was grim she was supposed to be a quadriplegic she was supposed to never function she was supposed to be brain-dead and luckily babies are resilient and she she healed you know day by day it was a very slow process we spent every day every night every waking hour in and out of the hospital my husband right by my side the whole time we thought she was getting better we had gone from thinking that she was going home to having a team of doctors surrounding her telling us she still might not make it when they figured out she had hydrocephalus it was because her head started swelling just gradually and by the time we went to Ann Arbor her spinal fluid still wasn't normal they did a McComb reservoir in her head at first on the left side of her head and they would actually do a ventricular tap to it every day which meant that they would lay her down with a needle and tap that spot in her brain and take
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