May 1, 2010 – Life upside down

Matěj was in the University Hospital in Brno – the ORL Clinic which is part of the Children's Hospital in Černopolní Street. There Matěj took a simple tonsils removal surgery (under total anesthesia) on Monday April 26, 2010.

He should have left the hospital on Saturday May 1, 2010, but as his temperature was above normal, they wanted to keep him in the hospital till Sunday May 2.

On May 1, in the afternoon, the operated throat started bleeding slightly, so the doctors decided to perform another surgery to solve the trouble. Unfortunately, the operating room was occupied and Matěj had to wait for around one hour and a half. In the meantime the bleeding intensified. Then Matěj took the second surgery, again under total anesthesia. Nobody in the hospital told us anything about the reasons and course of the second surgery.

During the period of two hours after the surgery, a nurse came to see him several times and a doctor once. Suddenly Matěj collapsed. We tried to call a nurse. We had to wait for some time, after several long and long minutes she called the doctor, and then the Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Department was called. They reanimated Matěj for 35 minutes and then moved him to the Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Department.

We do not understand it. The investigation is still undergoing and therefore we would not like to give more details.