Winnipeg family speaks out over complications related to diabetes medication
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A Winnipeg family is speaking out after they say their grandmother's CT scan involving medical contrast dye went horribly wrong.
A Winnipeg family is speaking out after they say their grandmother’s CT scan involving medical contrast dye went horribly wrong.
The family tells Global News their 78-year-old grandmother, Kathy Boychuk, was not informed to stop taking her diabetes medication before the procedure, and as a result has been left with severe kidney damage.
“(It’s) hell, plain and simple,” Boychuk told Global News over a video call from her hospital bed. “I am in so much pain, you cannot believe it. I went through hell and back and that should have not happened.”
Boychuk went in for a CT scan on her abdomen at Grace Hospital on May 25. She returned home, but days later was rushed to the Health Sciences Centre (HSC). They say the doctors told them her kidneys were shutting down.
“From May 25 — when the procedure was — and within a five-day span, she was in the hospital on critical life support,” Boychuk’s grandson, Joshua Burmachuk, said.
“It broke my heart, seeing her there (in hospital). I didn’t even want to leave the hospital, it broke my heart.”
Burmachuk says numerous family members gathered at HSC, and the doctor there told them their grandmother’s medical reaction was due to a combination of her diabetes medication, metformin, and medical red contrast dye, an agent used to improve the diagnostic value of imaging exams.
Burmachuk and Boychuk allege the doctors at Grace Hospital never informed her to stop taking metformin prior to the procedure.
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