Woman Secretly Sterilized By Her Own Mother _ Chicago Med _ MD TV

Hi. A nurse is going to come by to start your discharge paperwork. Nance, look up the bus schedule, will you, honey? Ow! Honey? Nancy? Are you okay? Check your abdomen if you don't mind. How long have you had this pain? I don't know. A few days. Is there anything in particular that makes it hurt worse? Eating, twisting, lying down? Hurts just the same. Yeah, seems like appendicitis to me. I had my appendix out when I was 14. Any other surgeries? C-section? Any kids? No. I always wanted them, but never panned out. Well, it might be a hernia, but I'd like to get you into a bed and examine you more thoroughly. Run some tests. It's probably just a bellyache. Listen to the doctor, hon. You'll be all right? Of course. Well, go on. Thank you. Right this way. Nancy Buckley's results? Yeah. It's not a hernia. That's what I thought. Her CT shows appendicitis. But her chart said her appendix was removed when she was a teenager. That's not the only thing that's off. Tubal ligation clips. She had her tubes tied. Why wouldn't she put that in her history? Maybe she didn't want her mom to know. Might be a touchy subject for them. Yeah, but Nancy said she always wanted to have kids. This doesn't feel right. Well, either way, she's going to need surgery. Yeah, and an organ she thinks she doesn't have. Ms. Buckley, your scan clearly shows an inflamed appendix. We need to get you up to surgery right away before it ruptures. How can it be inflamed? I had it out when I was a kid. You saw the scar. Yeah, I understand that this is very confusing. But that scar is actually from a different procedure. No, I-I-I had no other surgeries. Ask my mom what she'll tell you. BP's 75 over 20 and dropping. Ms. Buckley? Nancy? BP's still dropping. Heart rate's spiking to 145. Her appendix is ruptured. We need to get her to surgery. Get her IV wide open and call up to the OR and tell them we're on our way. Let's go. What's wrong with my Nancy? I'm afraid we had to send your daughter up for an emergency appendectomy. Appendectomy? Yes, her appendix burst. Oh. Ms. Buckley, your daughter believes that she had her appendix out when she was 14 years old. Why would she think that? That's what the docs said back then. Well, she does have a scar, but it's not from an appendectomy. Well, I-I don't know what to say. Her appendix is not the only thing we saw on her scan. She was a minor. You would have had to give consent. Back home in Blue Ridge country, I was young and poor when I had her. Nancy was a wild teenager, always getting into trouble. Finally, this judge practically ran the county. He told me if I wanted to keep Nancy out of jail, I had to make a choice. So you agreed to have her tubes tied? The way she was going, she'd have been pregnant by the time she was 15, dropped out of school, come to nothing. That was my life. I wasn't about to see my daughter turn out the same. Ms. Buckley, don't you think your daughter deserves to know the truth? I-I thought about it. What good would it do? What's done is done. She always wanted to have kids. Knowing what her mama did to her only bring her more misery. Please don't tell her. Sterilized? When? How? When you were 14. When they said they were taking out your appendix. They were actually doing a procedure called tubal ligation. Your tubes were tied. I did this without asking me. Did mama know? You'll have to ask her that. Oh my God. Give you two some time. How could she ever forgive her mom? I lost my baby, but I can still have another. If that were taken away from me, I don't know that I could forgive. I don't know. People can sometimes surprise you.