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Dennis Quaid Suing Over Twin's Overdose

HerBadMother — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:45:00 GMT

Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly Buffington, filed a lawsuit today in Chicago against Baxter Healthcare, the drug company that manufactures Heparin, the drug that was maladministered to their twins. Their lawyer has stated that the Quaid family is not interested in the money, but just wants to ensure that this doesn't happen to anyone else.

I totally get wanting to sue the asses off of anybody who put my child in harm's way. Totally. But, um, why just the drug company? As TMZ points out, the twins were harmed because somebody gave them the wrong dose. Shouldn't that somebody be sued, or at least the hospital that employs that somebody?

Still, I'm glad that the Quaid twins are doing better, and that their parents have moved from worry to anger.

Dennis Quaid Twins Update: Hospital Was Warned About Heparin Dangers

sweatpantsmom — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:25:00 GMT

TMZ is reporting that the FDA issued a warning back in February about the dangers of mistaking the low and high-doses of heparin. Dennis Quaid's twins, who were born earlier this month via a surrogate, were overdosed twice with the blood-clotting drug this past weekend. Hospital officials list them as stable, though they remain in intensive care.

In a safety alert dated February 6, 2007, the FDA and the drug's manufacturer warned of the dangers of switching 10 and 10,000 unit vials of the drug. The alert was issued in light of an overdosing that occurred in Indiana in September of 2006. Three infants died in that incident. It's being reported that a memo was circulated around that time at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center warning of the danger.

Dennis Quaid and Wife Kimberly Have Twins

sweatpantsmom — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:35:00 GMT

Oh, baby, baby. Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly welcomed twins, a boy and a girl, on Thursday. Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace were born via gestational carrier - a woman who carries another couple's baby conceived by the parents' own egg and sperm. Thus ends the FameCrawler gestational carrier lesson for today.

Even though Quaid seems to have disappeared into thin air, he lives on in our house in The Parent Trap, a movie my daughters love and that seems to be showing on some cable channel every two hours. In case you don't remember, the movie is a remake of an old Disney classic, and stars Lindsay Lohan playing the part of mischievous twins who plot to break up the engagement between their dad and his fiancée. Coincidentally, Lohan has been in the news lately for plotting to break up the engagement beetween new boyfriend Riley Giles and his fiancée.