Topic: hospital stay
When my then 16 month old split his head open we sat in the waiting room for 4 hours before he got in to be seen. (SJRH) The reason? They had to call in child protective services to "investigate". They thought it was my fault. Yea. And while waiting, I gave him some pens/pencils to draw with, well didn't he fall and drive a pen through the roof of his mouth. OMFG. That was the only reason we got in after 4 hours!
My daughter jumped into a box of picture frames last year, impaled her leg, ended up with 63 stitches in her leg. We were rushed by ambulance (DECH) and sat in emerg. for 2 hours before a Dr even came to look at her! They stitched her up and sent her home. The next day she ended up with massive infections/swelling in her leg, blew out all her stitches and we ended up going back in. Sat for 6 hours in the waiting room, before they would take her back in, sat in the emerg room for 2 more hours before being seen by a dr. Finally (8 hours later!) we get her stitched back up, and sent up to peds. She spent 9 days in there hooked up to iv's. The drs and nurses would not let me change her clothes because she was hooked up to iv's. I begged them to let me bathe her, she had sticky meds in her hair, she was smelly, sweaty, and dirty. NOPE. Would not do it. So my poor baby girl sat in a dirty night dress for days! Finally I got pissed off, unhooked her iv myself, and took her to the bathroom and bathed her. I came back to her room, got her dressed, hair done, hooked up the iv again, and got her back into bed. 2 hours later the nurse came in and asked what I had done. I told her I unhooked it, bathed her, and hooked her back up. She tried to be snotty to me, until I explained why I had to do it. Noone would do it for her!!
Oh yea, the best part? They tried to make me leave her alone at the hospital everynight. They told me parents are not allowed to stay overnight. I told them no way in hell I was leaving my 3 year old alone with the morons they had working there.
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