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Date Posted: 23:40:36 12/03/14 Wed
By Sophia Voravong
Journal & Courier
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -- The darkened, slightly raised scars that cover nearly every inch of Charity Lekeia Brown's body are a daily reminder of a brief but frightening stay at Tippecanoe County Jail last year.... Within days, however, blisters developed around her mouth, her eyes began to swell and her breathing became labored. Panicky, she called for a jail officer at 12:30 one morning."I pushed the button, let them know I was having trouble breathing," Brown, 25, recalled. "They gave me a medical slip. ... I never saw a doctor....Days later, Brown was in Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis recovering from Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a sometimes fatal disorder caused by an allergic reaction to medication. It causes the skin to essentially burn off from the inside out.
While in jail, Brown had been given a seizure medication that was not her usual prescription. ...Charity Brown's ordeal, she says, began when she was treated with Dilantin instead of her regular seizure medication, Lamictal, while in jail. The decision was made by a doctor she never saw or talked with, Brown said.She further claims that two nurses who treated her claimed nothing was wrong....
"There was just so much pus and discharge that it sealed my eyes shut," said Brown, who was hospitalized at Methodist for a month. "It was painful to open them.
" ... I could not see. I could not see at all. I felt like I was burning. My whole body was burning."
The Tippecanoe County Jail's physician is contracted through Peoria, Ill.-based Advanced Correctional Healthcare, according to Sheriff Tracy Brown.
Calls to Advanced Correctional Healthcare for comment were not returned.
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