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Take this all to an attorney, one who specializes in medical malpractice. There should not be any outlay of money needed. If they think there is a case, they will take their fee out of the award. Proceed with caution here. If a lawyer wants you to pay for her/his time upfront for a case like this, it generally means they don't think that it's winnable. Coumadin? It's what keeps my husband alive, that and the artificial valve and aorta.
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Yes. From what you've described, I'd be contacting an attorney immediately. If it were my mom, and she was taking Coumadin, and she'd fallen and hit her head?? She'd be in the ER stat. THEN to find out her Coumadin level was so high she needed Vitamin K? I'd say they were absolutely positively negligent. (I hate Coumadin.)
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I'm so sorry about the death of your mother. What an awful experience to have to go through.

I don't know if you can sue. I mean, you can. One can sue anyone nowadays but do you have a case is the question. I would absolutely consult with an attorney.

Not to side with the nursing home but closed head injuries are impossible to detect unless someone is specifically looking for one. It happens that someone sustains a head injury and hours later collapses and dies as a result when they were previously up and around after the initial injury. But this is just FYI and has no bearing on whether you can sue.

Since your mom had a large bruise on her forehead I would think that they would have sent her out for a CT scan but if your mom was walking and talking after she fell they probably assumed she was OK. I would imagine that 9 out of 10 people who fall in a nursing home are OK. This was the exception.

Definitely get in touch with an attorney. And I'm sorry that you have to go through this while grieving the unexpected loss of your mom.
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