An Ohio mom of three documenting a wellness journey on TikTok that included getting a “tummy tuck” was killed by surgery staff members who pumped “excessive” amounts of fentanyl and Dilaudid into her too rapidly, a lawsuit says.
“I’m really looking forward to this next chapter,” Rachel Tussey said in one of her final TikTok videos posted on Feb. 25 before going into surgery. “I’m in good hands,” she told her more than 80,000 followers. “Let’s do this.”
Tussey’s husband is suing the surgery center where the mom got her tummy tuck procedure, JourneyLite of Cincinnati, and its anesthesia partner, Associated Anesthesiologists of Springfield, for negligence and wrongful death. His attorneys allege that Tussey was the “victim of horrific medical malpractice” caused by the center’s “complete and total failure to provide safe recovery and post-anesthesia care,” according to their legal complaint…