with other events throughout the uk throughout the year. she also announced she wants camila to be queen when charles ascends the throne. now, back to dateline. ascends the throne no welcome back to dateline, i m natalie morales. brigida uto was clinging to life in an icu. her doctor had a hunch she had been poisoned. and is pressed to get hold of the closely guarded antidote, which raised alarms of the fbi. now, brigida test results were about to solve one piece of this mystery. and send the case in a chilling new direction. returning now to the procession blue mystery. brigida s mom cannot visit her daughter in the hospital. no visitors were allowed, so she waited and prayed. that was all that she could do.
visit noweyesee.com to get the facts about diabetes, your eyes, and what you can do next to take charge of your sight. brought to you by regeneron. here at kaiser permanently hospital in san diego, brigida uto was so weak, she could not conjure up the energy to care about what was happening to her. doctors have a term for
believed someone was determined to commit the perfect murder, by feeding bits of a highly toxic metal, thallium, to his patient, brigida uto. for tense hours and days, the doctor and his team fought to save brigida s life. she consumed more than enough thallium to kill her. and yet, i do not know why i am here. but [laughs] i do not know why i am still alive, and that is scary. [laughs] meet brigida, she is still with us. did you feel like you were dying? i, i did. i did, but i was too afraid to admit it to myself. what kept you alive at that time? well, my son. wanting to see my son. as the antidote took effect, brigida, in essence, woke up. she found herself in a hospital bed with only wisps of hair on her head.
Updated on January 14, 2021 at 1:10 pm
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The family of a San Diego woman who was slowly fed a chemical once used in rat poison by her husband, then a Navy sailor, speaks out Thursday night on NBC s Dateline, as do the medical staff who worked to save her life.
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When 28-year-old Brigida Uto arrived at a San Diego Kaiser Permanente triage center in March 2018, she was close to death.
In the race to save the young mother s life, doctors began investigating a medical mystery. She was losing her vision. She couldn t feel her extremities her feet and her hands. She couldn t even see the water I was giving her, Laura Comstock a triage nurse at the hospital told NBC s Dateline investigator Natalie Morales.