A STORY LONGER THAN CAN BE TOLD HERE

In 2012, while recovering from a minor surgery at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, Bobbie contracted a MRSA-type lung infection and within hours went into respiratory failure.  She was induced into a medical coma, intubated and connected to a ventilator.  After nine days she was extubated and a tracheostomy was performed.  But weeks beyond what should've been the normal recovery period she still couldn't breath without the ventilator.

No one knew it at the time, but that tracheostomy - one that she should never have needed in the first place - had been improperly performed.  Eventually she beat the vent and was able to breathe on her own, but soon it was discovered that the botched tracheostomy had done irreparable damage to her larynx.  Her active lifestyle would be severely restricted.  She would never again be able to speak.  The trache would require costly around-the-clock caregivers.  And it would never, ever come out.  Bobbie's life as she knew it was over, stolen from her literally by the flick of one careless doctor's wrist.

As impossible as it might seem, and it's a story longer than can be told here, Bobbie learned to her horror that she had no legal or financial recourse.  Within 5 years she spent every penny of the portfolio that was to see her through the rest of her days.