Free of Ebola but not fear: Nurse Nina Pham to file lawsuit against Presby parent

[TexasTowelie]

Photo: Smiley Pool

Experimental drugs and special care helped make Nina Pham Ebola free. But today she fears she may never escape the deadly disease.

The 26-year-old nurse says she has nightmares, body aches and insomnia as a result of contracting the disease from a patient she cared for last fall at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

She says the hospital and its parent company, Texas Health Resources, failed her and her colleagues who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States diagnosed with Ebola.

“I wanted to believe that they would have my back and take care of me, but they just haven’t risen to the occasion,” Pham told The Dallas Morning News last week in an exclusive interview.

Read more: http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/

Cross-posted in the Texas Group.

[KMOD]

1. Nina Pham was the one willing to run into the fire.

She is, and will always be a hero to me.

[midnight]

2. Yesterday I listened to a post on D.U. it was an interview with a man who said that our CDC is not

providing our nurses with masks that our protecting them from this virus. I would post was taken down by author.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017248617

[In_The_Wind]

3. Good luck to her. I hope she wins.

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R!

I hope she gets the help she needs.

[Mopar151]

5. The way our society treats heroes is a crying shame.

They are the best of us. Treated poorly by the worst of us - the faceless managers and naysayers, who worship Ayn Rand and send money to teevee preachers and killer cops.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Well, they deserve it. They didn't prepare her or her colleagues properly.

[Stuart G]

7. Incredible Story..Well Written..Long, Worth Reading.

Dallas Moring News, does a fine job of showing total incompetence at the hospital, "Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas"