When I went there for acute bronchitis that caused a grand mal seizure, the only reason I was admitted quickly was because I had the seizure, not the bronchitis.
When I fractured one of my toes, I waited in the ER for four hours. A doctor came in and gave me a special boot and he seemed really impatient. There was a woman in a wheelchair who kept sobbing for help and she fell out of the chair several times. She had a black trash bag to vomit in, and she was crying that she peed herself, and the most the orderlies did was give her a fresh bag and put her back in the chair. The ER was really crowded that night.
The best I was ever treated was when I had what I assumed was strep throat. I took a cab to the hospital because no one was around to drive me. They put me up in the pediatric ward! They were so, so sweet. My tests revealed a severe UTI that was heading for my kidneys, and everyone was so worried that they put me on strong antibiotics right away.
When Adam broke his left arm over a decade ago, he sat in the waiting room for five hours without any painkillers. When they gave him morphine, it didn't kill the pain, it just made him not want to hurt the doctors - he had already physically grabbed one of them in anger! The next time he went was for severe gastroenteritis (mistakenly called stomach flu) and the only reason he was admitted quickly was because his nose blend when he vomited. He got much better treatment for the same illness at Kaiser Permanente Urgent Care than he ever got an at ER!
Then again, our local hospital, Shady Grove, aka Shady Grave, had a long history of not meeting standards. Even when Adam's mother had breast cancer and they treated her perfectly, once she was in a recovery room the nurses kind of ignored her until it was really bad.
Just remember that everyone in the ER is constantly rushing around and that even if you feel very discouraged, breathe and keep calm. :)
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Date: 2012-06-22 06:18 pm (UTC)When I went there for acute bronchitis that caused a grand mal seizure, the only reason I was admitted quickly was because I had the seizure, not the bronchitis.
When I fractured one of my toes, I waited in the ER for four hours. A doctor came in and gave me a special boot and he seemed really impatient.
There was a woman in a wheelchair who kept sobbing for help and she fell out of the chair several times. She had a black trash bag to vomit in, and she was crying that she peed herself, and the most the orderlies did was give her a fresh bag and put her back in the chair. The ER was really crowded that night.
The best I was ever treated was when I had what I assumed was strep throat. I took a cab to the hospital because no one was around to drive me. They put me up in the pediatric ward! They were so, so sweet. My tests revealed a severe UTI that was heading for my kidneys, and everyone was so worried that they put me on strong antibiotics right away.
When Adam broke his left arm over a decade ago, he sat in the waiting room for five hours without any painkillers. When they gave him morphine, it didn't kill the pain, it just made him not want to hurt the doctors - he had already physically grabbed one of them in anger! The next time he went was for severe gastroenteritis (mistakenly called stomach flu) and the only reason he was admitted quickly was because his nose blend when he vomited. He got much better treatment for the same illness at Kaiser Permanente Urgent Care than he ever got an at ER!
Then again, our local hospital, Shady Grove, aka Shady Grave, had a long history of not meeting standards. Even when Adam's mother had breast cancer and they treated her perfectly, once she was in a recovery room the nurses kind of ignored her until it was really bad.
Just remember that everyone in the ER is constantly rushing around and that even if you feel very discouraged, breathe and keep calm. :)