GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) - Silas Mayes, E. coli victim, states, “I woke up with these extreme stomach cramps and I basically was going in and out of the bathroom every like five minutes, and I started noticing, like, there's blood and in my stool. So I asked my mom to take me to the emergency room.”
His mother Lera Davidson tells WesternSlopeNow, Silas had to spend at least seven hours at the hospital. And now he is on the slow recovery to how he once was.
Davidson states, “He lost a lot of weight, like around 7 to 10 pounds during all this. So, yeah, he's slowly being able to put the pounds back on.”
WesternSlopeNow spoke with Ron, managing partner of the Food Safety Law Firm, Ron Simon and Associates representing Silas and Lera in the lawsuit against McDonald's. His firm is representing six clients in Mesa County out of the 61 victims in the nation, 12 of which were hospitalized and three had acute kidney failure.
“The lawsuits are in the very beginning stages, but I have already been in talks with McDonald's and Taylor Farms about how to resolve the cases,” Simon explains.
Simon tells WesternSlopeNow McDonald's violated one of the biggest factors in fast food retail.
Simon states, “When a consumer goes to McDonald's and purchases a meal, they're putting an enormous amount of trust in McDonald's, that the restaurant has done everything they can to make that food safe. And here McDonald's didn't, and that trust was breached.”
Davidson states, “It really sets you into like a spin, because you don't know where it come from. i had to spend a day and a half bleach in my whole entire house because i was terrified that, you know, it touched surfaces in my house."
"We haven't been out to eat since then because I mean, we don't know what's going on behind the scenes anymore. We don't even know if they're really doing anything about it," Davidson said.