Irin Carmon

She was attending college.

She was about to graduate.

She was raising her two kids.

She had met somebody, Jose Perez, who she had a beautiful relationship with, and they were planning on getting married.

She had won the housing lottery, the subsidized housing lottery, and moved into a beautiful high-rise in Long Island City, away from some of the bad memories of her childhood.

But she wanted to come back to Woodhull to give birth when she got pregnant again because she'd had beautiful care from a midwife.

And unfortunately, that's not what she got.

She repeatedly told them that she thought that something was wrong.

She was dismissed.

She became upset, left the hospital, checked herself out, came back later, repeatedly saw that a white patient was being treated with great care while she was being ignored and dismissed.

and wound up having a C-section in a way that felt like a complete emergency.

And she very much did not want a C-section.

And instead of calmly explaining to her her options, the hospital was screaming at her.

They were pushing her husband away.

They did not allow her husband, her fiancé, I should say, Jose, in the operating room for the C-section, which is very unusual from what my reporting suggests.

And when he protested and advocated on her behalf because she was having an anxiety attack, they called security on him.

Mm.

And by a completely inexplicable series of events, Christine was left alone by nurses so that when Jose returned to her, her lips were gray and she was unresponsive.

It turned out that she had been disoriented and ripped out her IVs and nobody had noticed.

It turned out that Christine had the same injury, the same botched C-section that Maggie had.