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However, despite the flood of blood, Evie had the opposite reaction. “Evie was so calm, telling me everything was OK,” she says.
Ten minutes later, her husband arrived as the ambulances pulled up. “He took her [from] me and they cut the massive clot out of her mouth,” she says.
To Davidson, it looked like they were standing in a crime scene, and paramedics told her that they’d never seen a child lose this much blood from a tonsillectomy complication. So that doctors could understand just how much blood Evie’s little body had lost, they recommended that she snap a few photos.
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“I was in shock and I couldn’t walk because my legs where shaking that much,” she says. “It was the scariest day of my life.”
“Parents are told this can happen at the time of the operation and to be prepared, but when it’s your child and so much blood, nothing can prepare you,” she says. “It’s bloody scary; it looked like a murder scene.”
According to USA Today, a tonsillectomy is one of the most common childhood surgeries in the United States. However, a study published in Pediatrics found that 8 percent of pediatric patients studied returned to the hospital following their surgery, and bleeding was the most common reason.
