In October 2015, Canadian Paul Johnson underwent open heart surgery to correct a defect in his aortic value. Unfortunately, the surgery didn’t go as expected due to a contaminated medical device. And now litigation is pending.
Now, the 68-year-old sits in constant pain, unable to move freely around his house on his own. He takes a cocktail of antibiotics and painkillers every day, and his wife, Cathy Johnson, has become his full-time caregiver.
During that open heart surgery in 2015, Johnson was exposed to a slow-growing bacteria, called M. chimaera, that has ravaged his body. “The hardest thing is seeing somebody you love in a lot of pain and not being able to do the things that they want to do in life,” said Cathy.
Johnson is part of a class-action lawsuit that was launched because contaminated medical devices used in open heart surgeries led to serious, and in some cases deadly, M. chimaera infections.
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