18-Year-Old New Mom Suffered ‘Excruciating Pain’ After Epidural Got Stuck in Back For Days

18-Year-Old New Mom Suffered ‘Excruciating Pain’ After Epidural Got Stuck in Back For Days
Selena Gray on her hospital bed. Photo courtesy Selena Gray
Venus Upadhayaya
By Venus Upadhayaya, Reporter
Updated:

An 18-year-old Florida woman said she suffered three days of “excruciating pain” after giving birth to her daughter because doctors could not remove an epidural catheter in her back.

Selena Gray received an epidural on June 25 when she went into labor at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola. After she gave birth to baby Serenity the next day, a number of different doctors struggled to remove the epidural catheter, which her family said had formed a knot near the spinal cord in Gray’s back, reported Fox19.
Venus Upadhayaya
Venus Upadhayaya
Reporter
Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.
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