HELL WEEK

Sep 05, 2011

Hi guys, just had my surgery last Tuesday August 30,2011.  I really don't know where to start.  When I initially start reading about all the journey's I really expected the worse out the deal.  I had pretty much I thought prepared myself for the worse in my life, but then I kind of figured if I endured to c-sections almost a year apart I could survive anything.  The day before surgery I called a friend who had undergone her gastric bypass surgery this past July and she said that she had and awesome experience.  She was up and moving the same day, and her diet was advanced to a soft puree diet. And she was the king of the hill.  For some reason I adopted her experience as my own.  So needless to say I drove myself to the hospital the day of surgery and that's when the drama began.  The nurse that started my iv must have been a first year graduate and had no clue as to what she was doing.  The IV that she started I knew that it would not suffice surgery.  The anesthesiologist also mention the same himself.  When I came out of the FOG I had a central line in my neck along with other various previous IV attempts and severe bruising.  I woke up in excruciating pain and remained in pain over night.  I did not get any sleep in two nights due to the pain and the fact I was not on my nightly sleeper.  I have been on trazadone over over 3 years and the surgeon decided I need nothing to replace this.  However I was receiving 2mg of morphine every hour IV, this never touched the pain. I stayed with an increase in heart rate and blood pressure my entire hospital stay.  When I SPOKE TO THE CHARGE NURSE ABOUT MY INADEQUATE PAIN MANAGEMENT, SHE STATED THAT THIS SURGEON HAS A HISTORY OF ALLOWING HIS PATIENTS SUFFER LIKE THIS.  I could not believe this when I heard it, then before my discharge another nurse said the same thing.  I thought to myself this was insane and that I will file

 a compliant upon my release.

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