An Oregon mother-of-one is suing four clinics, five doctors and a nurse for allegedly dismissing her brain tumor symptoms as just a migraine.
Between 2010 and 2017, 29-year-old Erica Fletes, of Eugene, was suffering from head pain, blurred vision and neck pain.
A brain scan in 2012 revealed the tumor, but the doctor who interpreted the results allegedly missed it.
It wasn't until a visit to an eye doctor in May 2017 that the tumor was found - and had grown double in size.
Fletes filed the suit on February 15 in Lane County Circuit Court, asking for $10 million in damages, reported the Register-Guard.
Mother-of-one Erica Fletes, 29 (left and right), of Eugene, Oregon, was experiencing head pain, blurred vision and neck pain since at least 2010. She underwent a brain scan in 2012, which showed a tumor, but a radiologist allegedly missed it
In May 2017, Fletes's eye doctor told her to go visit a neuro-ophthalmologist. An MRI was performed, revealing a brain tumor that had grown nearly double in size since 2012. Pictured: Fletes's brain tumor before surgery in May 2017 (top left), after surgery in May 2017 (bottom left) and in December 2018 (right)
According to the Register-Guard, the lawsuit states that Fletes had been suffering from migraines since at least 2010 and reported symptoms to her primary care physician Dr Donald Mackay.
He had Fletes undergo a brain scan in 2012 at Peacehealth Medical Center at Riverbend.
The scan showed a mass on her brain - 2.2 centimeters by 1.1 centimeters - but radiologist Dr Stephan Thiede allegedly missed it, according to the Register-Guard.
Fletes continued to suffer the same symptoms and said she was having a 'daily headache that felt like a sledgehammer hitting her in the back of the head and radiating around to the front of the head', the lawsuit says.
She described the symptoms to family medicine physician Dr Galen Griffin at Oregon Medical Group in 2014.
The Register-Guard reports that he didn't order a brain scan and instead prescribed her muscles relaxers in 2015.
But the symptoms were relentless and, in February 2017, Fletes said she visited the emergency room at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield.
The lawsuit states that she complained of sensitivity to light, throbbing headaches, nausea, numbness in her right face and both arms,
