Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28257038-20160428083241/@comment-4287993-20160429151729

A brain bleed and swelling. Derek had to take out her temporal lobe, which meant it would possibly result memory and speech problems. She was also bleeding into her frontal lobe, and the only possible way to resolve that was to cut that out, too. Derek wanted to do that, but since the baby was in distress and had to be taken out, the C-section resulted in too much blood loss. They might have been able to stop that if they really tried, but since the removal of the frontal lobe would mean that she would lose everything that made her who she is (plus the temporal lobe), they decided it was better to let her go than keeping her alive just for the sake of being alive.