What has been your worse hospital visit?
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I'm a mother of two kids who are ten months apart in age.
I'll give you one guess........
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Being in the operating room for seven hours to stabalize me after being crushed by an 18 wheeler- then followed eight months of recovery and physical rehab.
In March of 2003, I got really sick really fast. I went to the hospital on Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station in Havelock, NC. I tried to tell the doctors that I couldn't swallow water or food. They just thought I was trying to get drugs. For a couple of weeks, I went to the hospital there because I kept throwing up, yet I had not eaten. My son had to come and get me and take me to Chicago, where I was diagnosed with secondary progressive Multiple Sclerosis. I had a feeding tube, IV's, and spent five months in the hospital up there. I lost 53 pounds before I got to Chicago. My doctor in NC, one named Kinny, laughed in my face and would do nothing for me. If I ever find this guy, he is going to wish I hadn't.
it was when i scratched my eyeball and it got infected.it was pretty gross they had to swipe my eyeball to do a culture on it...they had to put these eyedrops in it then use a blacklight to look where i scratched it when i couldnt even open my eye...gah the whole thing just sucked period
Mine would be taking my grandmother in to the ER by ambulance for a fall and the nurse that checked her in left the paperwork lay around so the doctor did not know she was there until finally two hours later when I began yelling did someone finally listen to me and check on her after she started urinating blood. All they kept saying when I would ask is that they are busy and they will be with her shortly. They never even checked to see or they would have known that they did not have the paperwork at the desk and she could have been seen earlier.
Laying flat on my back for 7 days to prevent a miscarriage, having hormone shots that left my butt sore of months, and ultimately having a miscarriage anyway.
I have two healthy children.
As for worst hospital STAY, I was only ten years old and got misplaced right after surgery. My gurney was pushed aside for a moment during some emergency near the elevators in an old hospital. I was only a few feet into a large glassed-in veranda-type room. The room was not used in the winter and lights were not on. But, there were plenty of lights just a few feet away. Then, accidently, someone rushed by and, not seeing me, closed the doors. I had just had minor surgery in my throat and was dopey but awake. I found myself suddenly in a dark, increasingly cold un-heated room. I was horribly cold. It lasted almost half an hour before the panicked staff found me. The head nurse and about a dozen others got me warm and placed me by the nursing station. I wanted my mother but the staff were carefully trying to cover up the error. They thought I would go to sleep and not remember. But, I did remember. It haunted me for most of my life for some reason.
The worst VISIT was to an ER. My 8 year old daughter was away at summer camp in a nearby county. My 7 year old son was at soccer practice with his father when he collapsed. I rushed to the ER in a horrible panic. His pediatrician had arrived before I did and was running tests on our son, suspecting diabetes. We were shocked and scared to death. While we were waiting, we could hear another patient, a child, being placed in the curtained-off room right next to my son's. Our pediatrician was called out of our area when he finished explaining the tests that he was ordering for our son. The new child was apparently also a patient of his. When he started asking questions of the adult accompanying the other child, we instantly recognized her voice as my best friend. I dashed over to her. I needed her so badly. What an amazing coincidence, I said. I quickly filled her in on our son's condition. She and the pediatrician just looked at me with these huge, weird grins on their faces. What? My friend kept hugging me and laughed. If you think this is a coincidence, she said, then you are going to LOVE this one. She gestured to the child in the room. The child was my daughter. She waved in a cute way at me. She had broken her ankle at camp, and, not reaching me, the camp people had called the alternative emergency number . . .my best friend . . .who met my daughter at the hospital. Both of our children wound up in the ER at the same time for different things. There's no way to describe how awful the rest of that day was. That was way too much for me.
Well the worst visit to the hospital was when this really nasty nurse in the OR didn't have any respect for my anethesologist or anyone for that fact, she was so nasty. I'm 14 so I was obviously a little uneasy just because of being so young and being at a new hospital with a different doctor. The OR nurse was bossing the anetheologist around telling him how slowly he put in my IV and how I should already be asleep, and then on top of that she kept touching my leg which made my pain increasingly worse since it is hypersensitive to touch, temperature, and pretty much everything else that a normal person wouldn't have pain to, and even after I asked her to stop touching my leg she kept doing it so my pain kept getting worse and worse until I was in tears and I wanted my mom. Luckily my surgeon came over to me and gave me a hug and told me that things would be OK and then I went off to sleep.
My worst doctors visit was when the doctor walked and pretty much told me that he didn't know what else to do to get my Spinal Cord Stimulator working without doing another surgery (which I had already had 3). I cried and cried because I didn't want to live with so much pain and even though I'm making it and did have the surgery which didn't competley fix things 100% with my stimulator I'm getting through things! At least my doctor was comforting and kind though because if he would have told me that he was going to just give up on different treatment then I would have been in even a bigger mess. I've had many other expernices that were not great, but those two have to be my worst, and hopefully I won't have any other one's top those.
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