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Last July, Alice Brock began feeling unwell and slightly dizzy in the evening after what was supposed to be a routine medical procedure at Stanford Medical Center, so she went to bed early, she said Friday \u2014 after filing a lawsuit against Stanford Medicine and clinical staff over alleged fallout from the treatment.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt midnight my eyes just popped open,\u201d said Brock, 75, who owns a publishing company with her husband and was living in Menlo Park at the time. \u201cI wasn\u2019t able to move my legs. I turned to my husband and said, \u2018Something\u2019s terribly wrong, call 911.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Brock had undergone a routine scan to check the functioning of an implanted pump that suffuses her spinal canal with muscle relaxant to reduce spasticity resulting from a spinal cord injury in a horse-riding accident when she was 17. During the procedure, called a myelogram, dye is injected into the spinal canal, allowing doctors to use a scan to see how well the internal pump is working.<\/p>\n

But, her lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court alleges, her doctor used the wrong dye, and now she struggles to walk.<\/p>\n

Stanford University, which runs Stanford Medicine, declined to comment on the lawsuit, saying patient-privacy laws prohibit it from publicly discussing individual patients\u2019 care or treatment.<\/p>\n

Brock and her husband Robert Most, her co-plaintiff in the lawsuit, are seeking unspecified damages.<\/p>\n

According to Brock\u2019s lawsuit, the dye her doctor used, Omnipaque 350, is not appropriate for injection into the spinal canal, with the dye\u2019s box labeled with an FDA-approved warning about risks including paralysis from injecting the wrong concentration of iodine.<\/p>\n

After the procedure, Brock said in an interview that she initially couldn\u2019t move her legs, and had limited sensation in them. But the next day she was able to take a couple of steps, with support from clinical staff, she said.<\/p>\n

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Over the next six months, her mobility improved in a \u201ctiny progression,\u201d then plateaued.\u00a0She has not recovered further, she said.<\/p>\n

Brock said that she had to leave her four-story home of 45 years because of its stairs, and will be moving into a Palo Alto continuing-care retirement community in the fall.<\/p>\n

She has used a walker for about 10 years and leg braces for about four years, but said she had previously been able to go up and down the stairs in her home all day, and walk along a dock to get on her son\u2019s boat.<\/p>\n

Now, she said, \u201cmy walking is very difficult and very slow.\u201d She and her husband are temporarily living in a one-story home in Washington state.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI cannot easily get in and out of a car. I can\u2019t stand up from chairs without help \u2014 wherever I am, I have to be lifted out of the chair,\u201d she said. \u201cI can\u2019t travel with my husband. If everybody walks outside and into the yard to hang out with the grandchildren, I can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brock\u2019s lawyer Loren Schwartz said the doctor\u2019s alleged mistake resulted in \u201cdevastating neurological consequences,\u201d and he hoped the lawsuit would prompt Stanford to investigate and make changes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe want to make sure this doesn\u2019t happen to other patients,\u201d Schwartz said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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