Because of the negligence of the doctors, sharon Jacks, an Army veteran in Ohio, is now a double amputee as her left leg was wrongly amputated.
A 74-year-old Ohio woman, an Army veteran, has both legs amputated below the knee as a wrong operation removed the wrong leg, and then, to correct that, she had to undergo another amputation. Sharon Jacks filed a lawsuit this month in Washington County Common Pleas Court in Marietta, Ohio, claiming that her left leg was amputated at Selby General Hospital in September 2025 while the surgery was meant to remove her right leg.
Her attorney, Brad Layne, said that during the first surgery, the team of doctors marked the correct leg but then amputated the wrong leg. They realized the error during the procedure and told Jacks’ family before she woke up. “The mark was still on the correct leg after the wrong leg had been taken off,” Layne claimed. The hospital called this mishap an “avoidable event” and said it retrained all of its surgical staff and those who were involved in Jacks’ operation were removed from their positions.
Four months after the wrong surgery, Jacks underwent the originally intended amputation and now she is a double amputee. Jacks and her husband named nine defendants in the suit, including the hospital and Jacks’ medical and surgical teams, accusing them of gross negligence, battery and reckless conduct. The original surgery was recommended to Jacks for the treatment of a type of skin cancer. After the correct operation, she has been cancer-free.