For His Glory

Hospitals........ugh.....

After 3 days of stomach pain, nausea, and well...other issues you probably wouldn't want to know about....I ended up going back to the hospital.  I went Monday night and they gave me fluids, took blood and gave me anti nausea and pain  meds in the ER.  We got home around midnight.  Today we were back again, this time to my Gastro Dr.  I waited what felt like forever, sitting in my wheel chair and then was taken back to wait another hour.  When the Dr came in he nearly shouted my name and sat down across from me with his computer.  Now they have computers instead of charts...lovely.....so, I am telling him how horrible I feel and all that has been going on since Sun afternoon, and he never looks up from his computer...just keeps using his stylus and umhumming.  When I mentioned how hard this has been for me on top of my already very debilitating illness he says, "I'm sure it is", without even looking up.  He never even did a physical exam on me to feel of my stomach! I am sorry to be venting, but I have this need to get this off my chest...

(I had my gallbladder taken out last Summer and ever since then I have had trouble.  I get these horrible pains under my sternum every few months...the last three times this happened I ended up in the Hospital having ERCP's done, that gave me pancreatitis and the last one I had a perf in my intestinal wall-basically the Dr accidentaly poked a hole in my intestinal wall.  So, when the pain came back this time I was so afraid i would end up having to have surgery again...)

So, then he sends me to do labwork and tells me that I will probably have to come back up there in a day or so for the catscan, because BCBS requires a preapproval now and that takes them 24 hrs.  Then they make the appt.  I begged the Nurse to call BCBS right then.  She was very nice and apologized that she couldn't....then she gave in......and while i was getting labwork done she called them for me! I went back and she told me she had set it up and to go on down to catscan.  

Needless to say, we were at the hospital all day....and I am waiting to hear what the reports say.

I am trying very hard to forgive the Dr for being so prideful....

We all have our faults...

Hospitals.........they aren't what they used to be.......ugh........

Hi old friend!

8:32 AM, Jun. 29, 2007 .. Posted by sharoncrooks

So glad you searched for me on the web!
Looking forward to catching up.

-Shari