Not sure what time I went to bed last night nor what time I fell asleep. Had a hard time for me to wake up too. I'm bushed. Finally dragged myself out of bed around 11 am for crying out loud and called the hospital to check on her. Found out she's still down in emergency! 15 hrs and she's still here. They put me through to talk to someone here and they told me she had a bad night. Was VERY combative and continued to try to get out of bed. Doing that could have caused her to break something. So he then informs me that they had to put her into "soft restraints". I felt a lump in my throat and it sank to my stomach. I felt sick at the thought.
I told him I would be there soon. When I got here, her space was empty. Turns out they took her for an x-ray for some reason. Still don't know why. Will continue to ask. When they finally brought her back they did so in a full hospital bed. They took her off one of those horrible stretchers and got her an actual hospital bed.
She was restrained with these things around her wrist with like a sponge material and they were each tied down to the bed. She was yelling at everyone. They had to clean her and she literally fought them the entire time. I've never seen her like this. She's like a little tiger, screaming and yelling at them to stop it, leave her alone, she was cold, she had a headache. They got her cleaned up and she just curled back up. She hasn't even acknowledged me. I may as well not be here but I won't leave no matter. Let her sleep and hopefully she'll sleep some of it off. She is complaining of a bad headached. She did last night too. Not sure what the hell that is about because she isn't a headache type person.
Wondering when she's going to get a damn bed in a real room. This place needs a bigger emerg and more rooms. The also need damn drapes that close to give some privacy. The c.a. here ended up getting a safety pin to hold the drapes together while they changed her.
It's 5:30 pm and if I could smack a nurse there is one with a target on her forehead here. Had the nerve to tell me that my mom is faking it!!! She says she's fine one minute and then when someone comes she plays like she's all confused. She said this in regards to my nephew coming by. She says mom was fine and then when Greg came she played confused. Here comes my potty mouth... I told another nurse that if that ones doesn't know how delirium works then she should shut the fuck up. Delirium does come and go with some people or lessens and then comes on strong. Stupid bitch. I'll find out her name and put a complaint in about her before mom is finished with this hospital stay. I'm sure nothing will be done, this hospital obviously allows pretty much anything but at least I'll get it off my chest and it's now blogged too. Now all I need is for this blog to go viral .... I wish it would. Someone said that St. Mike's would sue me.. go for it ... just go for it. Could you imagine the shit that would come out in that trial????
Called my nephew to see how it went when he dropped in to see her and he told me she wasn't very responsive even to him. That's unusual. If anyone can get her to respond it's me or Greg. Greg also told me that bitch nurse told him she was faking it at times too.
Almost 6 pm and trying to get her to take her meds and she won't take them. Her blood pressure is way out of control at 181/116. And that's thanks to that bitch Dr. D'Silva. Am I angry? You betcha. If something serious happens to my mom I will go after her for my mom. She took her off all the meds I told her to leave her on. The meds that control her heart rate and her b.p. and now both are out of control. Hopefully that cow never treats her own mom. Her nurse is going to call the Dr's upstairs and ask if she can give her the bp meds via I.V.
So.. Dr. comes down, looks all of 18 .. either I'm getting old or they are getting younger and younger. Anyway he tells me she's combative at times, delusional, over tired and sleeping a lot and not taking her meds. DUH!! ya think? This is why I brought her in. Anyway, he's not happy but he'll put her b.p. meds into the I.V. for her. Finally considering her bp has been up for days. Tells me like I'm an idiot that he can't give her a sedative to stop some of the agitation because she's so sluggish. Sure.. let's just crash her entire system. Idiot. I wasn't asking them to do that. She's out of it enough already.
Also, the only thing I can get out of her right now is her head aches.. I keep putting it down to all the noise in this emerg and the bright lights and such. Finally someone tells me that the patch I discovered on her back is NITRO! No damn wonder she has a headache to beat all headaches. I'll never forget the first time they gave me nitro, it was with my first heart attack in the emerg. I honestly don't know what was worse, the chest pain from the heart attack or the headache from the nitro. Felt like someone took a ballpeen hammer and hit me between the eyes and split my head right open from front to back. No exaggeration. So she probably has a headache much like that and then add all the noise and lights.
Oh.. I'm told there are no rooms in the hospital at all !!! That's why she is still down here in emerg. This place is a zoo. The E. D.'s really need to take some pay cuts to hire nurses and do some building up to add floors. Where the hell is all the money going that people donate? If you come into this hospital the first thing you get when you get home is on their damn donation list and you get an onslaught of bloody letters asking for money.
6:25 pm.. ok, it's official.. they are trying to kill her for sure. Guy comes in with a food tray for her. She's been on a strict liquid diet for 4 years now so they give her... a very dry vegetarian pattie, cumin sweet potatoes, hard green peas and a brownie. really???? guy says he knew nothing about her diet. Told him it's right on her chart but again he says no one told him about it... for Christ sake... get your shit together. If she was slightly awake and tried to eat any of that crap she would have aspirated it and ended up in i.c.u. again.
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