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I'm glad you're back and you've made it through your ordeal. Keep on getting better. :)
Thanks, T.
I'm finding that I can't fully trust my memory of the onset of this. My wife is helping me connect some dots. Didn't remember barfing in the ER. At least that one was due to the headache/pain level. Most of the others in the following days the result of my inability to handle one of the meds.
Thanks all!
I so luv being home!
Spent anhour composing a complaint letter to the hospital regarding one psychotic nurse I had. Hopefully it save the next patient some grief.
Gross/embarrassing/ugly
Thx for asking. Slow, but good is the rule.
Scared myself a bit by reading up on my injury. Bullet dodged
Recovery looks intiminating but I have to keep myself from focusing on where I am today versus where I hope to be down the road.
Haven't gone stir crazy yet, but kinda bummed that I can't bring myself to pick up a book to pass the time.
Finally spoke voice to voice with a Nursing Administration Supervisor about the one nurse from Hell I had. She was floored by what I shered and asked me to write a letter of complaint to the Hospital Director. It was good gettnig that BS off of my chest.Did she speak English at least?
Yep, but she was a bi-atch thru and thru.
Yep, but she was a bi-atch thru and thru.Finally spoke voice to voice with a Nursing Administration Supervisor about the one nurse from Hell I had. She was floored by what I shered and asked me to write a letter of complaint to the Hospital Director. It was good gettnig that BS off of my chest.Did she speak English at least?
Been there....done that.....
I'd be willing to bet it was night staff. Could be wrong though.
Yep, but she was a bi-atch thru and thru.Finally spoke voice to voice with a Nursing Administration Supervisor about the one nurse from Hell I had. She was floored by what I shered and asked me to write a letter of complaint to the Hospital Director. It was good gettnig that BS off of my chest.Did she speak English at least?Been there....done that.....
I'd be willing to bet it was night staff. Could be wrong though.
Give the woofie a prize!
Yep, the bi-atch left on break at midnight, her nursing asst ignored my call button and I held a half hour before I had to crap in my barf basin. Then at 6 am she refused me the pain meds on the grounds I didn't sound lucid enough, even tho I was on 0 fluid for my angiogram. I had to get by on Tylenol3 with water to swallow. Even tho I had poor sleep and didn't have my meds for 3 hours she played the power trip card. (I could have the dilaudid every 2 hours if necessary.) Yep, she was a winnner all right.
Great.....glad you're out of there, man.
First night after my son's born,.....and after 36 hours no sleep, about 1 a.m. I'm in a cot in my wife's room. This nurse busts up in there demanding to know "why the f#~% I called 911!"
This other nurse hauled her up out of my face. I says, "what, b@$++?" I sometimes got a smart mouth when I get disturbed like that.
I think the problem was you have to dial 9 and then the number to dial out, so some not lucid person was dialing a "9" then a "1 and then the area code" only due to their lack of lucidity they hit "1" twice. Apparently an ambulance HAD to come due to some law of some kind, and that nurse apparently didn't cotton to the cut of my jib somehow, so thought I was a prankster.
I know I give every indication and whatnot on the interweb,....but I'm pretty lowkey in person. Plus I worked at the damn hospital. Why would I cause troubles?
I think lack of sleep bends some of their minds just a little too much, though.
Yep. At least the lady I spoke to was shocked and embarrassed about my story. Guess I was lucid enough to remember details. THe bi-atch nurse kinda bragged about the number of complaints she receives. Hopefully one too many will cause a change. It's sad that the other nurses get a bad rap due to one bad apple. This one got her jollies heaping misery upon people when they're suffering.
The supervisor didn't want this story to fall thru the cracks. Neither do we.
I think lack of sleep bends some of their minds just a little too much, though.Yep. At least the lady I spoke to was shocked and embarrassed about my story. Guess I was lucid enough to remember details. THe bi-atch nurse kinda bragged about the number of complaints she receives. Hopefully one too many will cause a change. It's sad that the other nurses get a bad rap due to one bad apple. This one got her jollies heaping misery upon people when they're suffering.
The supervisor didn't want this story to fall thru the cracks. Neither do we.
well, I hope my mom wasn't part of this, she has been an RN for over 20 years.
Yep, but she was a bi-atch thru and thru.Finally spoke voice to voice with a Nursing Administration Supervisor about the one nurse from Hell I had. She was floored by what I shered and asked me to write a letter of complaint to the Hospital Director. It was good gettnig that BS off of my chest.Did she speak English at least?Been there....done that.....
I'd be willing to bet it was night staff. Could be wrong though.Give the woofie a prize!
Yep, the bi-atch left on break at midnight, her nursing asst ignored my call button and I held a half hour before I had to crap in my barf basin. Then at 6 am she refused me the pain meds on the grounds I didn't sound lucid enough, even tho I was on 0 fluid for my angiogram. I had to get by on Tylenol3 with water to swallow. Even tho I had poor sleep and didn't have my meds for 3 hours she played the power trip card. (I could have the dilaudid every 2 hours if necessary.) Yep, she was a winnner all right.
Why are the biatches on night shift? During 04/2008 - 03/2009 when I had gastric bypass followed by an appendectomy and gall bladder removal, I was in the hospital on five different occasions. There was this night shift nurse that made Nurse Ratched seem nice and I made it adamant that for each subsequent visit that I not be placed on the same floor. And I also had a similar incident when the pain pump ran out of Diluadid and I kept pressing and pressing the button for it to be replaced. She came by 90 minutes later to explain that she was helping a patient be admitted. I told her that she could have easily asked another nurse to check up on me. $@%%%$. For the rest of my stay, I made sure I didn't have her again.
Even tho I had poor sleep and didn't have my meds for 3 hours she played the power trip card. (I could have the dilaudid every 2 hours if necessary.) Yep, she was a winnner all right.
For the first several stays, I was getting anywhere from 1 to 2 mg every two hours. That stuff was the bomb as morphine wouldn't do a thing for me. But at my last visit, they had the system replaced where I could give myself a 0.2 mg self-pump injection ever 10 to 15 minutes ... or at least when I think I needed it. I liked that method much better.
Over my 12 day stay I had a lot of good caregivers, a couple were mediocre but not whacko. Maybe they push the people-challenged ones to night shift? One of my mediocre ones was on night shift in ICU, but she wasn't mean like this one. At least they didn't give me a hard time when I refused her the next 2 nights. Still I was slightly worried that she would slip something into my IV. That nurse was seriously off her rocker.
Yih, my mommy's been one 40 years. I hung in her belly in utero over surgery cases when she was a nursing student.well, I hope my mom wasn't part of this, she has been an RN for over 20 years.
Unless they work in Royal Oak, MI they're in the clear. But it sounds like there is more than one out there. Yikes.
When she 1st came on shift she pounced on some of my gaming buddies when they came to visit, insisting that I could only handle one guest at a time since I tested positve for vasospasms. None of the other nurses restricted that much, leaving me to make the call. She was a nasty piece of work. Shoulda spotted the foreshadowing.
...insisting that I could only handle one guest at a time...What? None of your buddies invested in Diplomacy? [sarcasm] Shocking. Everyone dumped CHA again. [/sarcasm]
Actually, the guy she pounced on is the one person I know that could talk himself out of a murder charge. That beast wouldn't have any of it though.
And things go from bad to worse. The brain bleed, followed by the motor dying on the car we provide my younger son, then last night our dog of 8 years died quickly and unexpectedly. Turns out she had a tumor on her heart that burst. They couldn't stabilize her for surgery. So add a broken heart/spirit to my ailments. I just want to sleep 'til next year.
Dupe post - Got a call from a nurse mgr at the hospital tonite. Apparently my letter to the Director of Nursing about the nurse from hell has a lot of people jumping. It seems that a lot of people didn't do what they were supposed to after the incidents.
I can do more that write up twisted evil demons. I can describe the ones I meet in real life.
...insisting that I could only handle one guest at a time...What? None of your buddies invested in Diplomacy? [sarcasm] Shocking. Everyone dumped CHA again. [/sarcasm]Actually, the guy she pounced on is the one person I know that could talk himself out of a murder charge. That beast wouldn't have any of it though.
And things go from bad to worse. The brain bleed, followed by the motor dying on the car we provide my younger son, then last night our dog of 8 years died quickly and unexpectedly. Turns out she had a tumor on her heart that burst. They couldn't stabilize her for surgery. So add a broken heart/spirit to my ailments. I just want to sleep 'til next year.
Hey, dropping in late but glad you are ok.
Deep breath and let it out.
Just remember your dog is in a happy place now... ALL dogs go to heaven after all!
in winter 2006 my wife was diagnosed with a brain tumor, had surgery and radiation (doing great now). Spring 2007 my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died in June. Thanksgiving 2007, my great dane died while my wife and I were away at my brother-in-law's house for the holiday. Heartache follows heartache, but leaves us stronger.
I have the feeling things are going to work out just fine in the long run.
...insisting that I could only handle one guest at a time...What? None of your buddies invested in Diplomacy? [sarcasm] Shocking. Everyone dumped CHA again. [/sarcasm]Actually, the guy she pounced on is the one person I know that could talk himself out of a murder charge. That beast wouldn't have any of it though.
And things go from bad to worse. The brain bleed, followed by the motor dying on the car we provide my younger son, then last night our dog of 8 years died quickly and unexpectedly. Turns out she had a tumor on her heart that burst. They couldn't stabilize her for surgery. So add a broken heart/spirit to my ailments. I just want to sleep 'til next year.
That sucks to lose a dog especially at a time like this.
Found yesterday that I still have limits to what I can process. Rock Band + Metal Bass + conversations at a level to compete drove me to seek isolation. And I'm a jerk for pointing it out to my loving wife. *sigh* Wish I could drive.
And found out Sunday that brightly lit areas are rough on me too. I needed sunglasses inside of Kohl's. Normal light is OK.
Found yesterday that I still have limits to what I can process. Rock Band + Metal Bass + conversations at a level to compete drove me to seek isolation. And I'm a jerk for pointing it out to my loving wife. *sigh* Wish I could drive.
And found out Sunday that brightly lit areas are rough on me too. I needed sunglasses inside of Kohl's. Normal light is OK.
So sending you a strobe light as a get well gift wouldn't really work, huh?
So sending you a strobe light as a get well gift wouldn't really work, huh?Found yesterday that I still have limits to what I can process. Rock Band + Metal Bass + conversations at a level to compete drove me to seek isolation. And I'm a jerk for pointing it out to my loving wife. *sigh* Wish I could drive.
And found out Sunday that brightly lit areas are rough on me too. I needed sunglasses inside of Kohl's. Normal light is OK.
You think that's awkward... I just had to cancel Slayer's appearance at his get-well party.
So sending you a strobe light as a get well gift wouldn't really work, huh?Found yesterday that I still have limits to what I can process. Rock Band + Metal Bass + conversations at a level to compete drove me to seek isolation. And I'm a jerk for pointing it out to my loving wife. *sigh* Wish I could drive.
And found out Sunday that brightly lit areas are rough on me too. I needed sunglasses inside of Kohl's. Normal light is OK.
Sending him a Metallica CD probably wouldn't either.
Edit- Ninja'd by CH
