Medical Drama

Toni says: My name is Toni Hollinger in October 5, 2007 I had went to a infertility doctor in Medical City Dallas. The name of this Clinic was Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine Dallas. This clinic was announced on Channel 5 News about a Seminar that took place in summer 2007 This Doctor Walid Saleh told me that I would have a good chance to have a good candidate for this procedure My ovaries, cervix and hcg level was good. I had just got married and had a wedding march 24, 2007.He had no children we wanted to have children together. But I have 2 daughters already from previous marriage. I paid over $10,000 for this procedure out of pocket. my husband was overseas in Afghanistan. He came back on his R&R to give this clinic a sperm sample on august 3, 2007.they also came back in the room around 30 minutes later saying that his sperm count was very high and that they wanted to keep that sample because it was more than enough so lets freeze this sample .we also had other had to sign some forms and get them notarized. and to have bloodworm done as-well.5 days later we get a call from this doctor saying that he had some bad news and some good news. the good news was that all of my blood work came back fine and that I was ready to go to the next level. the bad news was that my husbands sperm came back saying that he had syphilis, so he threw his sperm away. then he told me that he needed to see a infectious doctor immediately. so I called our family practice doctor because all the doctors that I called told me that we didn’t need to be seen by a infectious doctor. so we went to the doctor that same day my doctor called Doctor Walid saleh and asked him what was the amount of the disease he told him that it was 1.0 percent my doctor told him that wasn’t a disease why would you tell them that. it was a antibodies. and that there was nothing to do for that because it is permanent. Doctor Saleh started to get loud and say that he was getting ready to call the health Department and the FDA. my doctor ask him why would you call the FDA they would tell you the same thing. Doctor Short told my husband that he would go ahead and retreat him like the Doctor ordered but it wasn’t going to help. he also told us that it seams that we have gotten a bad doctor and that we needed to try to get our money back. I called Sher Institute For Reproductive Medicine and talked to one of the reps Freda. she told me that If I had started any of the medication, I couldn’t get any of the money back and that it was a catch to it. so that meant that I had to continue the process. about 2 to 3 weeks later after my husband had returned to Afghanistan I received a call from a nurse name Mary Palmer from Missouri asking was I ready to start my injection for my September cycle. I told her that I couldn’t because the doctor had discarded my husbands sperm because he said that it was infected. she yelled what! we are not supposed to throw anything away. she told me that she was going to call Doctor Saleh and ask him what was going on. she later called back and said that he said that he still had it and if I was still taking my birth control pills lets move on with this procedure. after Mary called me back, I received a e-mail from Doctor Saleh saying no need for you to be pointing the finger at anyone when we haven’t even started the procedure yet. it not my fault that your husband a disease and that you had to pay out of pocket. like if he got mad because I told the nurse that he threw away my husbands sperm. I didn’t know what to do at this point, I could not trust him at this point everything that he told us on the phone has changed all of a Sutton. so the next week I went in to get another calendar for October Cycle. it was very higher dosages than what was on the other calendar that I had for September. I had no one to administer my medication after this. later I found out that Mary Palmer canceled out of the October cycle so I didn’t have a nurse to really help me. later on through this procedure even though I could feel a change in this doctors attitude with me. I went in to see how many eggs did I have to have to harvest he told me that I had to come back in three days because I needed to take more medication. On my next appointment my daughter went in with me to see the doctor. after the sonogram he looked at me and said I am very disappointed because I heavily medicated you with very high dosages of medication and you still didn’t get the amount of eggs that I expected. he said that he expected to at least around 20 to 25 eggs from me. I told him doctor Saleh you said that Only need one good egg. so he told me that he think that my left ovary didn’t respond and that he was going to take them out the next day. I told him that it couldn’t be true because my stomached was so swollen to the left and my ovary was sticking out so he told me to lay back down and that he wanted me to hold my own ovary while he redo the sonogram’s he recheck so I asked him how many was it he never answered and said I am taking them out tomorrow. so I went in the next day which was the 5th of October to have the eggs harvest. when I went to the surgery room my nurse was checking my vital signs and asked me was I supposed to have my eggs harvest without my husband or a bestial carrier I told her that my husband was supposed to have been back there some where thawing out. she told me that no one told her that I had sperm. so I asked her could she go to the waiting to get my mom. so she went to get my mom and told her the something. I was so shocked my blood pressure went up higher than it already was. she told me that she was waiting on the doctor to come back in the surgery room to tell him how high my blood pressure was because it was too high to go into surgery, but he never came back so later the anesthesiologist came into the room to get me to take me into surgery room to get me set up he noticed that my blood pressure was so high he whispered in my ear and asked me if he could give me something for my blood pressure because it was too high. I told him that it would be ok to do so. the staff proceeded to strapped my legs down to the stirrups and put a black trash bag under me and told me that they was waiting on doctor Saleh to come back and when I see him come in the door I will be out. after I came out of surgery and was taken into recovery the anesthesiologist and the nurses told me that the doctor took 7 eggs off of my ovaries. about 10 minutes later Doctor Saleh came and touched me on my foot and told me that he only took 4 eggs off my ovaries. I just looked at him and didn’t say anything. later the anesthesiologist came back into the room to give me my partials for my mouth I told him what Doctor Saleh had told me he told me that he didn’t know why he told me that because he saw him take seven. the next day I checked my e-mail doctor Saleh change the story saying that he tried to reach me to tell me that there was 7 eggs and out of the seven we have 3 embryo’s. I was instructed by the nurse to call back on the 4th day to check on the embryo’s and to get a surgery time to come in. when I did call in I was transferred to someone and I told her that I was instructed to call in to check on my embryo’s and to get a time to come in to get a time to come in for the embryo transfer. she yelled and said if no one called you don’t call us and hung the phone up in my face. so I told my mom about it. so I waited on the 5 day for the call and no one called so around 12:30 I called in because my mom was my transportation to get there. I spoke with Freda she put me on hold and said that she was going to check on the embryo’s. later she comes back saying that doctor Saleh would call around 2:30 me and my mom looked at each other and said here we go again. later Doctor Saleh called and said they died before calling you, I am sorry this didn’t happen for you I will send you a e-mail and hung up the phone. so my mom told me to call them back to make an appointment to come in that day. soon as we walked into the office everybody looked like they had saw a ghost. we waited about a hour for the doctor Saleh to tell me that he don’t know what happen he is just going to say old age killed them, then later saying call your husband overseas and ask him to start over in January. so my mom asked him why would she do that if old age killed the other one. so he said if it happen again he would say do it no more. then I asked him how much will it cost the next time he told me that I would have to talk to the front desk for that information. I will say about a couple days later Freda Simmons called me and told me that she was so sorry that she couldn’t tell me while she was still working there. but do I remember when I told her that doctor Saleh discarded my husband sperm, I told her yes. She said that when they took my eggs off my ovaries they didn’t add me to the list with the rest of the patient to have a transfer. then she asked me who record did they have in my file? I told her hat it was Tina the same person that he e-mailed me calling me her. and sometimes he would call me that in his office but I though he was just meant Toni since it was so close to Tina. Freda also that this wasn’t the first time that this have happen. she told me that every since doctor Saleh have been there he has done nothing but mess up but Karen Rodriguez the clinic manager always clean it up even if she has to change the files she would do so. she told me that she hope that they gets caught because they has so many valuations. then about or 9 days later I get a call from Amanda Martinez she told me that Stephanie from lab told her to call George which is my husband and ask him if he could come back in to give another sperm sample so I looked at him and he said no! so I asked her why would he need to do that? Amanda said for your embryo transfer I looked at my husband and told her no. because why would my husband give more sperm if we was just told I embryo’s had died from old age. then I called the Corporate office in California to make a complaint first, which we got no where with taking to his Boss Kate she just kept going on and on that she would get some answers from Doctor Saleh on what happen to my embryo’s. I even told her the situation about there ex employee Freda Simmons telling me what happen about me not being put on the list after taking my eggs she was still saying I will get you answers from the doctor then I asked her about him calling me Tina and when I ask for my medical file since the doctor couldn’t give me no answers other than old age and why wasn’t there picture if they had live 5 days she just stuck with her story. thin I asked her why did I get a call from Amanda Martinez saying that Stephanie from lab asked him to come give another sperm sample she just kept saying she would get the doctor to get me some answer. after this I filed a complaint with the Texas Medical Board. later speaking with Pamela Ellis as the investigator and told her what was going on. after I received a letter from Doctor Saleh a month later with his so call answers. which was unacceptable and was mostly lies to cover his mistakes. I have been left with disabilities such as pain in my joints from the lepton drug, High Blood Pressure, respiratory problems shortness of breath. I have had a breast reduction surgery because when I gained so much weight my breast was hanging to my stomached , anxiety & depression. I am invited to testify on my behalf before the Texas Medical Board on June 10, 2009 against the Doctor. I was told that I had to find Legal Representation. (May 24th, 2009 at 9:36pm)

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