I am so glad to hear you are feeling better and congratulations on losing those 23 pounds!

As for "bad" nurses, I am a nurse and what you need to do is write a letter to the nurse manager on the unit you were on and explain what happened . Either they were really uncaring , or not educated properly as to what was proper protocal and need to get educated. As a patient you have rights.

Take care

Sher

ps. if you ever are in the hospital again and have an issue with a nurse ask to speak with the nurse in charge or the nurse manager.

Oh no Kathy! Sorry to hear you have the flu hope you don't have the swine flu -

You're in my prayers to feel better....

Healing energy sent your way

Glad you are feeling better Tammy. I have been thinking of you but haven't called since I might be oinkin. Def have the flu and not sure about the H1N1.

So I mentioned to Dr. Raftopolous that I was not happy with some of the care I received in the hospital, I told him I had a list of the good nurses and CNA's and I was going to write a letter - he wanted to know if I remembered the "bad" nurses and CNA's because he was going to try to make sure that these nurses/CNA's DO NOT take care of his patients! (wish I had kept a naughty and nice list!)

So for all you post-ops - if you've run across a nurse or CNA that was really doing a poor job or a really good job - please either PM me with names - or post them here - I will get the list to Dr. R at my follow up appointment - he said he would make sure it was anonymouse so I figured I mine as well gather as much info as I can for other patients.

On another note - I'm down 23 pounds!! And starting to feel much, much, much better!!!

I can't tell you how good the support meetings are because I haven't attended one but here is the info for the St. Francis Bariatric Center meetings:

Monthly support group meetings for preoperative and postoperative Bariatric weight loss surgery patients are held on the fourth Tuesday of the month from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Gengras Auditorium 1st floor at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center.

*** Please note the October Support Group Date has been changed. Support Group will be held on October 22, 2009 instead of October 27th, 2009, please call the office for time and location of October's Support group. (860) 714-7128.