Laura Collin

marler@marlerclark.com (E. coli Attorney) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:10:23 -0800

My daughter ate the Totino's pepperoni pizza on Sept.16 and began having back pains for the next three days. She then developed a fever,vomiting,diarrhea,and painful urination. She was diagnosed with an Escherichia Coli(E coli),infection in her kidneys. It was so severe that we had to admit her to the Emergency room for IV fluids and IV antibiotics because the oral antibiotics weren't working fast enough. Then she had to have more urine cultures; blood work ,and an ultrasound to check on her kidneys and appendix. Her kidneys were extremely inflamed. It took my daughter 3 weeks of medicines and recoup time just to get her back to normal. She missed 2 weeks of school and was very afraid that night at the hospital, that she might die. I am very disappointed that a company like General Mills, that mostly prepares food that children will be consuming, does not have a better system to make damned sure their foods will not be unsafe for our children to eat. My family was put through a nightmare with this illness and when I contacted them to make sure they let the people of California know they are also on the list of contaminated products, they never even called me back as promised. The reports say that 21 people were affected.....Well my 10 year old daughter changes that number to 22.

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Laura Collin