Friends don't let friends have surgery at OHSU

Jan 07, 2010

OK, so that's wrong, Dr. D' did a great job on both of my surgeries.. The hospital portion is a joke..

The nurses/CNA's are wonderful, the rest of the staff has got to go... First and foremost.. It is flagged ALLLLL over my file what my allergies are, including TURKEY..  When the first set of Faux Dr's made their rounds, I mentioned that I can't have white flours, rice and that I'M ALLERGIC TO TURKEY.. 1 hour later a nut shows up cuz apparently I have "a very strict diet requirement" Mind you, this is the SAME HOSPITAL and SAME DR whom preformed my DS, and I am on a BARATRIC FLOOR so it never occurred to me that things could get difficult..

ok so I talk about my "special diet" to this Nut.. She scribbles in her handy dandy note book. Next round of Faux Dr's shows up, AGAIN I remind them about the turkey and so on and so forth.. My dinner arrives, I'm just barley coherent enough and something tells me to READ my menu.. guess what

FUCKING TURKEY IS ON MY FUCKING PLATE! If i  had not looked before shoveling food into my starving pie hole, I would have been in anaphalatic shock and all the faux Dr's would have been scratching their head trying to figure out why...SIGH

Fast fwd.. I report this to EVERYONE who would listen to me as I was PISSED.. they also had sent the head pharmacist to me to talk about my vites.. I told him I CAN'T DO OIL BASED and all HAVE TO BE DRY.. We spoke in depth about absorption issues and why I took high amts of certain vites, he understood all this, or so I thought he did.. Next morning, low and behold.. I am given 4-oil based vit A's, Oil based vit E AND 2 FLINSTONE CHEWABLEs! I refuse them all and tell them why, I say I'm bringing in my own.. They agree but want the bottles to verify or some shit like that... So Tuesday morning they arrive, 3 pharmacists show up, take my bottles and 4 hours later they come back and decide I can take my vit A, D & centrum cuz they are in sealed bottles, the rest they could not identify.. I agreed, laughed and waited till they walked out of the room until I took all of what I require..

Wed night I finally had a MAJOR melt down after i had submitted my dinner menu but apparently the kitchen never got it.. When dinner arrived (I was starving) I lifted the cover only to find a lump of rice with veggies mixed in, mashed taters, FF milk & pudding... I pushed my call button and when my nurse arrived, I begged for my meds so I could just go to sleep and forget about everything that was happening... Instead she listened to me..

I couldn't believe that every single effort I had made to take care of my own body had failed, from my vites to my proper diet...

I'm home now and getting my proper care cuz I am my own dr.. This was/is a VERY painful surgery which I was told it would be.. i'm still to swollen to see my results but they should be interesting...

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