A mother of three has tragically died after being declared brain dead due to complications with her \u201cmummy makeover\u201d plastic surgery.<\/p>\n
Rachel Tussey, 47, was pronounced dead on Tuesday after she underwent a tummy tuck surgery on February 25 that left her with brain damage due to a lack of oxygen.<\/p>\n
The mum from Cincinnati, Ohio, updated her 78,000 TikTok followers just before going under the knife and said she was in \u201cgood hands\u201d.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI know it\u2019s going to be great, and I\u2019ve waited a really long time for this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n However, despite her doctor\u2019s declaring the surgery went well, her husband Jeremy Tussey said she deteriorated quickly.<\/p>\n As she was recovering, Ms Tussey was given medication by the nurse to manage her pain, including fentanyl.<\/p>\n Mr Tussey said in a video posted to her TikTok page that her face turned an \u201coff colour\u201d and she became unresponsive shortly after the pain medication was administered.<\/p>\n \u201cIt didn\u2019t seem like much sense of urgency with her lips being blue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The nurses then called the surgeon who instructed the team to call an ambulance. She was rushed to Bethesda North hospital where she was put on life support.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was administered too much medicine,\u201d Mr Tussey said on TikTok. \u201cSomebody dropped the ball and killed my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n Mrs Tussey spent the following days on a ventilator under sedation before her husband made the heartbreaking decision to remove her from life support on March 5.<\/p>\n \u201cRachel fought bravely with her family by her side, but the extent of the damage left her with very minimal brain activity,\u201d her family wrote on a GoFundMe page.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Mr Tussey made a follow-up post on GoFundMe confirming that she had died.<\/p>\n \u201cLast night, my wife Rachel lost her battle while in hospice care.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRachel was an amazing wife, mother, and person who touched so many lives. We will carry her memory with us always.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother of three has tragically died after being declared brain dead due to complications with her \u201cmummy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,2957,1720],"class_list":["post-551097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}