Quaids 'Misled' by Hospital
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
HOLLYWOOD - Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly have launched a stinging attack on a Los Angeles hospital for misleading them about their newborn twins, who nearly died from a shocking drugs overdose.
Quaid's twins Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace were left fighting for their lives when they were mistakenly given 1,000 times the normal 10-unit dose of blood-thinning drug Heparin by staff at L.A.'s Cedars Sinai Medical Center shortly after they were born to a surrogate mother in November.
The twins have since been discharged after doctors gave them the all-clear, and they are back home with their parents.
But speaking about it for the first time, the actor reveals he and his wife didn't know until the next morning that their children had been treated for a drug overdose.
He says, "Our kids could have been dying and we wouldn't have been able to come down to the hospital to say goodbye.
"When you go into a hospital, you become like a child, like an infant in a way. The names of the drugs, we can't even pronounce... We put complete trust, and we are so vulnerable like a child, innocent and vulnerable in a hospital situation."
His wife Kimberly described the moment the couple first saw the twins.
She says, "They were in incubators with cords attached to them and monitors, and you could barely hold them.
"Every time you'd move them, the alarms would sound... The stress was overwhelming."
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