I am going to write a quick post about what happened tonight… the detailed version is more horrible than the condensed version.
Yoshi was dropped off by ProfessorEric at the hospital at like 3:20 and admitted at 4:00.
At 7:20 (when I was driving to the hospital), i got a call from Yoshi’s cell phone… Yoshi was BAWLING in pain… NO ONE had been there to see/take care of my Hunny.
Yoshi had been sitting there for over 3 hours with no doctor to visit… No drugs for the pain had been administered (the last vicodin taken had been prior to noon).
By the time I got there, Yoshi was delirious in pain sitting on the bed (still wearing the street clothes… not changed into a gown) puking in a bed pan. after more than 3 hours in the hospital, waiting… they had JUST administered demerol.
When I went to the nurse’s station to ask what the hell was going on, no one seemed to know who was responsible for the patient. Evidently, when Yoshi got there the admitting doctor didn’t know who Yoshi was… turned out a different doctor in the group WAS expecting Yoshi, but for how many hours, no one bothered to check on my Hunny?!?
I guess it was ok to just let someone sit there in a bare room (no phone, no call button, no tv remote) in extreme pain? Yoshi wasn’t even allowed to take the previously prescribed vicodin because it wasn’t “authorized.”
By the time I paged the doctor and started bitching, the head nurse (who i think was just starting her shift) realized i was MAD and then relieved the other nurse that was just starting her shift and took over herself. I think I scared the head nurse because she took over and gave extra special care after i got there… i think she knew i was about to start bitchslapping people.
Within 20 minutes of me getting on the phone with the doctor (the nurse heard me calling and complaining) the ekg and chest x-ray were done, blood was drawn, and also IV fluids/antibiotics put in… this more than 5 hours after Yoshi arrived at the hospital.
Around 9:40pm, the head nurse came by to check up on yoshi, who was still complaining of stomach and back pain, asking for more pain killers. So the nurse called the doctor and i guess the blood work came back and the amylase levels were high, indicating pancreatitis so the recommendation is that Yosh be seen in the morning by a GI specialist & and deal with the pancreatitis first before scheduling gallstone surgery.
Must sleep so I can wake up early and get an update from the head nurse before she leaves her shift.
I hope they get it all straightened out soon. My prayers are with y’all.
Hope everything works out better for both of you (especially the Yoshmister) today. Mad love from all the Boise crew.
This is aweful!!! Sending you prayers towards Yoshi and you!!!
Ah, so sorry he is having a hard time of it - the bastids! Your anger is totally understandable. Hang in there.
This is why I fucking hate hospitals…and I work in one! 90% of the nurses/doctors are more concerned about their fucking paychecks than the patients they’re supposed to be caring for.
Don’t even try to argue this point with me, I’ve worked with these people far longer than I ever wanted to.
Case in point: I was sitting in our “snack bar” reading one day when a doctor walked in and asked to be let in to the front of the line at the coffee bar because he was on his way to “emergency surgery”. Emergency surgery…and he had to stop to get a fucking cup of joe? At 4pm? When his shift started at noon?
Can you tell I’m passionate about this issue? Joz, tell Yosh I’m thinking about you two if you get a chance. I know you’ve both got other things to deal with right now.
F*cking HMOs and their f*cking HMO “doctors”. This is why I suggested you threaten them with “endangerment of life”.
I just hope your Yoshi hunny is okay right now, taken care of promptly, and back home where your hunny belongs as soon as possible.
And don’t give those f*cking HMO people the tiniest bit of slack. It’s Yoshi’s life; not an expense, not a procedure, not a statistic. They just need to be reminded with a f*cking two-by-four to the head first, and to the nether regions, second.
Wow… that was impressive. Next time I have to go to the hospital, I want you there. *lol*