What started as a routine brain surgery left one Jacksonville mother fighting for her life and her family fighting for change.
Kathy Zeppenfield went into the hospital in August for a procedure to treat hydrocephalus, a condition that causes fluid buildup around the brain. Her daughter, Kaitlyn Harley, says what should’ve been a short stay turned into more than a month in the neuro intensive care unit.
Harley says that during the surgery, one of her mother’s blood vessels was accidentally nicked. Doctors believed it would heal on its own, but instead, it developed into an aneurysm…