Question from my hospital bed

Congrats on your surgery Toni, so excited for you, but boo on how you are being treated.  Definitely bring this up to the nurse manager, no one deserves to be treated that way.  You just went through major surgery and are in genuine pain and you need to be given something for the pain!  That infuriates me when people aren't doing their job.  Hopefully you get lots of help today with the day nurses.  That 7 o'clock shift change is when the patients seem to go unnoticed while they have their meeting.  If you will need anything try to get it from your nurse before 6:30pm that way you won't be ignored until they feel like answering you at 8pm.  

I started taking the Gas-X strips at the end of day 2. They worked well but my gas was limited to my mid-section, not all over & severe like many others have posted.
If you see your surgeon before you leave, I'd ask him/her.
Good luck!

Wow, that is too bad about the non-service.  In Ottawa, there are whiteboards in each room and the name of the nurse is written in as the shifts change.  As well there were instructions to us patients about what to do....walk, sip a certain amount of water each hour.

As well, there was another senior nurse that came and asked us about the care and about the nursing staff.  Everything was great.  I even told them I wasn`t going to check out of their hotel, it was too comfortable.  LOL

Keep moving.  Ask for hot blankets to place on your tummy (my roommate did that) and said that it helped.

All the best.

Judy

Speaking as a RN I also encourage you to complain in a written statement specifying dates and times. Every nurse should be wearing an ID badge and generally within the first hour of shift change come and have a look at you even if just to say hello. I'm sorry to hear that your hospital stay has been not great and hope things are better today. Be sure though to give kudos to those nurses who were exceptional. It's like any other profession, you're going to have people that are great and some who are not unfortunately not enough people complain against those who need a reminder why they became a nurse in the first place.