"The first few hours after surgery, no one could get my pain pump to work. It took over 12 hours to finally get some pain relief right after surgery. When my Dr. came in and said this was unexceptable, the staff immediately started treating me horrible. Some nurses felt that I didnt need pain meds and shut off my pain pump, then the next shift would turn it back on.
Even though i tried to explain that my 2 hour surgery ended up being 6 hours because of other complications and more work was done besides the actual bypass, they didnt care.
I had to walk every hour during the day and every 2 hours at night and they would always come in while i was trying to get a little bit a sleep for absolutely no reason.
Everytime i would fall asleep a loud beep ing sound would go off because my leveles would drop. I tried to tell them to let me put the oxygen in my nose so i could get some sleep without being woke up 1 minute later by the stupid machine. The nurses said i didnt need the oxygen and i couldnt put it on. i was so desperate for sleep but what was i suposed to do. the last day when the Dr. came in i told him that i was concerned that my oxygen levels were going dangerously low when i tried to sleep and he said that was a normal patteren for me and it would improve down the road. i asked him if the nurses knew of this information because i had that oxygen thing on my finger the whole time and got no sleep because of it. my Dr. said the staff knows that bypass patients always do this and i didnt even need that monitor on me in the first place.
I have asthma but was told not to bring my inhalers because they would be provided for me but when i finally got them to call the Dr. to order them, it took over 13 hours to finally get them and they brought 1 inhaler into me at 3am and said they couldnt give it to me until later in the morning when they could get the Dr. approval for it. WHAT? The Dr. was the one that ordered it in the first place, why would he need to approve it again.
One of my nurses was already off the clock and going home but saw me in the hallway doing my laps and he asked me how my pain was? I told him that it was finally under control, he said so that means we can lower your doses? I told him no because like i said, my pain is finally under control and stable. Well, a few minutes after i got back to my room, my new nurse and the nurse that i spoke to in the hallway came into my room and lowered the dose on my pain pump. that nurse had no business doing that and the new nurse had no business listening to another nurse that wasnt my nurse at the time.
this behavior all stemmed from my Dr. talking to someone about the earlier behavior of the staff when they couldnt get my pain pump to work for so long and they kept telling me to stop moaning and complaining so much.
Like i said, this was the worst hopsital experience i have ever had and i have had several hospital visits and stays in several different hospitals."
