(In December 2005, the FDA asked GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Paxil, to change the pregnancy category D, a strong warning. Category D means studies in pregnant women have demonstrated a risk to the fetus). “I started taking Paxil when I was in high school,” says Bonnie (not her real name pending a lawsuit). So I stopped taking it when I got pregnant with my oldest son – I have four children. But by the time I was pregnant with Keagan, my life became difficult and I was very depressed, my husband’s work meant we had to move away from family and friends and I started taking effexor lawsuit again. I called my mom (she is a nurse) and asked if there was any risk in taking this medicine. She looked at him in the book and was the drug category B so there were no warnings and no side effects – it would have been the end of 2001.

My husband lost his job again and went even further, so I was on Paxil. I gave birth to Keagan and when he was only six hours of life the doctor told me it had to be transported to Children’s Hospital because his oxygen saturation was low and that they had detected a heart murmur. As soon as he was transferred, Keagan suffered his first heart surgery. He was diagnosed with critical aortic stenosis – his aortic valve was not working properly. They also diagnosed him with hypoplasia of left heart (HLHS) – a rare heart defect, meaning that the left ventricle is under operation or may be nonexistent. He also had endocardial fibroelastosis (EFE).

It was heartbreaking – everything that I spent with him and get pregnant after being told he had serious heart problems … We had family fly in Canada, Oregon and Washington. My sister took my kids back to Washington with her. I slept in the hospital almost every night and much of my family was across the street, in a place like one Ronald Macdonald House of Charity. In three weeks of age, had a balloon Keagan its aortic valve, had a marked open heart surgery and other emergency surgery the next day. When I got to the hospital on the morning of February 7 that had been written in his letter that the family was spending time with him and keep him as much as possible. Until that point I had not been allowed to hold him.

I called my husband to return immediately to the hospital and then took two nurses and respiratory therapist to move your bed Keagan little in my arms. Between me and my family, we had all day. Then he started having problems with the levels of blood and oxygen to the doctors asked if we wanted to have a “Do Not Resuscitate” order (DNR). We opted for the DNR to be put in place and called the members of our church, because they had been so favorable. My pastor, his wife and other members of the congregation came. Things were not improving. Keagan count of white blood cells was very high and he was bleeding in one of his lungs. The doctor met with me and my husband and our minister and asked if we wanted to let it go or pursue treatment.