Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Mother Dies After Giving Birth
KENTUCKY...
A Laurel County mother has died of bacterial meningitis a day after giving birth to twins at UK Hospital. Her family says Karin Blankenship 30, was airlifted to UK on Saturday after an emergency C-section. Blankenship passed away Sunday afternoon.
Blankenship's husband, Butch said his wife was a nurse at St. Joe Hospital in London. He said she didn't feel well Saturday morning and that she was running a fever, so at 32-weeks pregnant went to St. Joe to be checked out. Doctors told him Karin had bacterial meningitis. Butch Blankenship says no one, not even Karin, knew she had contracted the deadly infection. The twins remain at UK Hospital, where they are both dong well and are nearly breathing on their own. Karin Blankenship also had two other sons.
A Laurel County mother has died of bacterial meningitis a day after giving birth to twins at UK Hospital. Her family says Karin Blankenship 30, was airlifted to UK on Saturday after an emergency C-section. Blankenship passed away Sunday afternoon.
Blankenship's husband, Butch said his wife was a nurse at St. Joe Hospital in London. He said she didn't feel well Saturday morning and that she was running a fever, so at 32-weeks pregnant went to St. Joe to be checked out. Doctors told him Karin had bacterial meningitis. Butch Blankenship says no one, not even Karin, knew she had contracted the deadly infection. The twins remain at UK Hospital, where they are both dong well and are nearly breathing on their own. Karin Blankenship also had two other sons.
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