Word: frustacis
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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Smiling wanly, Patti Frustaci stood proudly outside Childrens Hospital in Orange County, Calif., holding tiny Stephen Earl in her arms. After nearly 20 weeks in intensive care, the last of her three surviving septuplets was finally on his way home. But last week, only four days after that seemingly happy occasion, Patti and her husband Sam filed a $3.25 million malpractice suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against both the clinic and the physician who administered the fertility drugs responsible for the conception of Stephen Earl and his six siblings. Said Patti: "Life will never be what...
DIED. James Martin Frustaci, 17 days, the third of Patti and Sam Frustaci's twelve-week-premature septuplets to succumb; of cardiopulmonary arrest as a result of hyaline membrane disease, which afflicts many premature babies, including all the surviving Frustaci infants; in Orange, Calif. One of the seven, a girl, was stillborn; another died of lung disease in his third day, and another girl is not expected to live. The other three are said to be "showing daily improvement...
Hand in hand and smiling hopefully last week as they left St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., Patti and Samuel Frustaci could hardly have been anything but quintessentially proud parents. Though two of their seven tiny infants had not survived the largest U.S. multiple birth ever, the remaining five were clinging to life and now have names. Previously dubbed babies A to E, they are Patricia Ann, James Martin, Stephen Earl, Bonnie Marie and Richard Charles. "They're beautiful," said Mrs. Frustaci. "I just hope they live." All have a better than fifty-fifty chance of survival. But James Martin...
...Patti Frustaci, a high school English teacher, added 70 lbs. to her 115-lb. frame while carrying the septuplets. Surprised by her large size early in her pregnancy, doctors scheduled an ultrasound examination that detected three fetuses. A later sonogram revealed seven babies in her womb. The Frustacis were dazed. Recalled Sam: "I said to Patti, 'Dogs have litters...
...when Patti began having trouble breathing (the seven babies were pressing against her diaphragm) and her blood pressure shot up, doctors decided to deliver the infants. Later, the father for several minutes held his stillborn 15.5-oz. daughter, who doctors think died several days before the birth. Said Sam Frustaci, who like Patti is a devout Mormon: "The Heavenly Father had alternative plans for her. She gave up her life for the sake of others...