By the time she ended up at a Georgia hospital with emergency complications, 30-year-old Atlanta nurse Adriana Smith was almost nine weeks pregnant.
Her condition, which included multiple blood clots, deteriorated as doctors tried to save her life, Smith’s mother April Newkirk told Atlanta TV station WXIA.
“They did a CT scan and she had blood clots all in her head. So they had asked me if they could do a procedure to relieve them, and I said yes,” Newkirk said. “And then they called me back and said that they couldn’t do it.”
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