AKRON, OH — So many things Jessica Harvey Galloway believed to be true — an Italian heritage that inspired her to plan a trip abroad to connect with ancestors — were turned upside down when she took a DNA test, a Christmas gift from her parents, two years ago.
And what the Cleveland woman discovered — that John “Mike” Harvey, her dad in every sense of the word that matters, except biologically — embroiled an Akron hospital in a major malpractice lawsuit.
The DNA test showed she had no Italian heritage at all. Instead, her biological father was another patient of Dr. Nicholas J. Spirtos, the fertility doctor Mike and Jeanine Harvey consulted in 1991 for in vitro fertilization, according to a lawsuit the Harveys filed Wednesday in the Court of Common Pleas in Summit County, Ohio.
The Harveys are also suing Summa Health Systems’ Akron Campus, where Jeanine Harvey’s egg was fertilized with a stranger’s sperm.
The Ancestry.com DNA test that showed Galloway wasn’t biologically related to her dad upended the family’s life, raising questions that would have been unfathomable before the bombshell, including:
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Who, then, was Jessica’s biological father? How many families in their corner of Ohio are intertwined? Might she pass a brother or sister on the street and not know it?
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The discovery “revealed a trauma I never could have imagined,” Galloway’s mother, Jeanine Harvey, told ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
The worst things, she said in another interview, this one with news station WJW, the Fox affiliate in Cleveland, is what “we don’t know.”
“We don’t know if we were the only couples there that day, there may be two, three, four couples, maybe we’re all intertwined. We don’t know.”
Mike Harvey told “Good Morning America” the experience has been “like waking up in someone else’s life.”
Summa Health released a statement saying it takes the lawsuit allegations seriously and understands “the impact this has on the family.”
“At this point, we have not met with the family or conducted testing of our own,” the statement continued. “Given the very limited information that we have and the amount of time that has passed, it remains our hope that the attorneys representing the family will work with us to make that next step a priority.”
