Reading this with tears and rage. So glad you had your people there for you and you made it through basically a juggernaut of medical malpractice and structural racism. https://twitter.com/karlitaliliana/status/1260761171717582848">https://twitter.com/karlitali...

I& #39;m really teary because my being born was something similar. And my mom was alone, no advocates. She tried to advocate for herself but wasn& #39;t listened to. We both could have died because of an anesthesiologist who my mom suspects had caused at least 1 other Black mother to die.

My mom blacked out during delivery because the epidural went too far up her spine (she& #39;s very sensitive to drugs). So she basically wasn& #39;t awake when I was born. She just remembered them pushing on her stomach to get me out before she lost consciousness.

I don& #39;t think I understood the terror and the rage until I read this thread. Just not being listened to, over and over, talked down to, and in Karla& #39;s case, almost being held captive?

That sort of medical trauma is absolutely racist and sexist in origin and I hope she sues.