Mia House

Mia House was my baby, the youngest of my eight children.  She went into Norwalk Hospital to have a Caesarean section.  This was Mia’s first child.  While she was under anesthesia, Mia was not getting enough oxygen and the doctor who should have been watching did not notice.  Mia suffered severe brain damage.

Mia’s baby’s name is Kayleb.  Thankfully, Kayleb was not hurt like Mia.  As little Kayleb’s grandmother, I will raise her.  When I bring Kayleb to the hospital to visit Mia, she cannot hold Kayleb, she cannot speak, and she cannot respond in any way.

Kayleb is still too young to know that, unless we are blessed with a miracle, her mother will not be a part of her life.  Someday, though, Kayleb will wonder why her mother is confined to a hospital bed and unable to speak.  The answer if why I am here.

The doctor who should have been making sure she got enough oxygen, her anesthesiologist, is named Jay D. Angeluzzi.

I don’t know why he did nothing while Mia was suffering her injuries.

But, I do know that he injured another woman in the same way before.  Her name is Sadie Kinder Cole.  Her husband Herman and Sadie’s children suffer as we do.  They also have had the heart torn from their family.

After Mia was injured, we learned that Dr. Angeluzzi has been in and out of psychiatric facilities over the years because of substance abuse.  His medical license was on probation in Massachusetts.  He even had to leave work because he was unable to function.  Despite this, his medical license here in Connecticut was never restricted in any way.  The hospital never did anything to protect his patients.  That is why Dr. Angeluzzi was able to neglect Mrs. Cole and cause her severe brain damage.  We know all of this because Sadie’s husband Herman Cole fought the hospital in court to find out the truth.

After injuring Mrs. Cole, you would think that someone from the State would stop Dr. Angeluzzi.  You would think that the hospital would protect its patients from this man.  You would be wrong.  Mia was hurt because the people who should have protected my daughter from this doctor didn’t respond to the Cole family’s complaints.  Despite his psychiatric problems and the way he devastated Mrs. Cole, Dr. Angeluzzi’s medical licenses and hospital privileges were never restricted.

I am here today because I don’t want another family to suffer as we have.  Without Mr. Cole’s persistence, we still might not know why Mia was hurt.  If Norwalk Hospital or the State responded to Mr. Cole, Mia would be home right now caring for little Kayleb – holding her daughter in her arms as I once did with Mia.  Instead I will raise Kayleb and she will never know my lovely daughter Mia as she once was.