hospital fiasco

[Guest guest]

Well, I thought I might sit down and describe the fiasco that went

on in the hospital this time. I thought you all might get a good

laugh and it would be therapeutic for me. Its all such a joke.

When I went into the hospital they were in the process of moving the

adult medicine floor to the new and " redone " floor so for the first

three days I was in an old icky part. Then they moved me to the new

part. You would think this would be an improvement, but they didn't

even get things done before they moved folks. It is such a joke.

First of all there were no curtains on teh windows. That sounds

like no biggie but when the sun is out it makes it unbearably hot.

These particular rooms had a window the whole length of one wall.

So they started taping sheets to the windows with masking tape. Of

course that doesn't work and inch by inch that falls off and I spent

half my time taping sheets back up. Then at night they would

completely fall off and you have all the lights of the town shining

in on you.

I finally had had enough and asked my hubby who works their in

facility services if he could put up garbage bags or something I

didn't care what it was. So he wound up putting up black garbage

bags on the windows with duct tape! So I am in this room with

blakced out windows. Wasn't hot anymore though. He left the tape

off the bottom so I could lift them up and at least see the light.

You would think that a hospital doing a new floor would have all

this figured out.

Then there were no shower curtains! I don't have to tell you waht a

dangerous nightmare this is. I finally called housekeeping

supervision and asked about them and they said they had no shower

curtains and that was the way it was! I got ticked and said I bet

they would have shower curtains if it were Mr. so-and-so who runs

the hospital. Well, guess what, I got a brand new shower curtain,

not one BUT TWO!

Then, they don't clean which has been a problem for the whole 8

years I ahve been a patient there. They do not clean the

bathrooms. The housekeeper goes in and flushes the toilet and walks

out. They don't clean tubs, they won't even take the dirty wet

towels away. They said that was not their job it was the job of the

CNA! Can you believe that. I went out in the hall and there are

allt hese soiled linen basket things up and down the hall and the

housekeeper is sitting on her butt doing nothing but tells me they

don't pick up the towels because if they start doing that they would

have to do it all the time. So I proceed to get the towels out and

they didn't like that so she grabbed them out of my hand and put

them in the basket. The next three days after I had to truck it way

down the hall to get rid of the towels. She saw me and just told me

I could put them in the bin and turned and walked away. I wanted to

slap her with my IV pole! By the way, I did report these people.

Then I had a nurse who was a total nurse " ratchet " who hated

herself, her job and everyone else. She was just down right mean.

One day they came to get me from radiology and I asked what for and

they said a CT scan. Well I hadn't heard that was happening so

asked the nurse. She looked at me and said that I didn't need to

know what I was having I just needed to go do it! Can you believe

that? My mom and dad were there at that point and my dad was

livid. Everything I would ask it was " you don't need to know that "

or some smart aleck answer. I reported her and I was told that she

got a written warning. The floor supervisor apologized and told me

they had problems with her before.

I only went in with pancreatitis and came out with about 5 other

things. They decided I had sleep apnea and started all this crap.

Well, if you are getting all this Dilaudid IV I would think you

would have some kind of apnea for crying out loud!

Then they decided I had a staph urinary tract infection and gave me

Keflex and I had a reaction to that and am still suffering. They

don't know if it was the Keflex or the Lovenox for blood clotting

they were injecting in my stomach every day. I have had both drugs

before, so who knows. Can you get a rash from Staph? Every time I

get in that place I get a Staph infection some place. Last time it

was in my throat and ear. This time my throat started hurting and I

asked the nurse if she would look and see if she could see (Staph is

not hard to see in the throat) and she tells me she would have to

get a flashlight. This is at night. I said so get one. When she

came back I asked her if she wanted me to turn the light on and she

said she had the flashlight now. So why didn't she turn the light

on to start with. Maybe I am being picky but ther are some real

witches up there and most of them work the night shift.

In defense, there are some really good nurses who always try and

take care of me and I have made very good friends with them. But

some, forget it. What is wrong with these people.

The last straw was the day construction was going on right outside

my window and the jack hammers started and actually vibrated the

bed! You would think it was an earth quake.

Now this all might sound silly to some of you, but when you are that

sick it is a big deal. The dirty bathroom thing really gets me

especially when you think of Staph and wet towels, etc.

This was my hospital fiasco and hasn't been the first one. I will

probably think its silly later, but you all might get a good laugh

about it!

Kaye