Am so glad you found someone you knew through your work.
your last day . I am just like you, I try to always stay out of the
hospital and ask for IV's at home. My lung doctor said that they don't
usually
treat pneumonia at home on IV unfortunately. I guess because of the chest
x-rays
that are needed.
It would really be interesting if others feel like we do about the hospital.
They don't seem to know what a digital is and they think they only have to
do one.
I really appreciate you writing about your experiences. Why are hospitals so
inept about our care? When you feel so horrible and you have to battle to
get what you need.
Seven days seemed like a month.
Dana
I won't go to the hospital unless I'm near dead, I hate that place and good
luck finding anyone familiar with quadriplegia, they think you're helpless
and in a way you are because you're out of your element there.
I can't wait to leave the hospitals and if it wasn't for my caregivers that
truly care for me and come see me everyday while I'm there I starve to death.
The last time I was there they couldn't find me a bed side comode! Are you
kidding me! My caregiver had to bring mine.
A couple years ago I went for a horrible uti and I was there for about half
a day and could barely find a cna to help me and then this nurse comes in and
it turns out I knew her because I just had her house built and we had a
short conversation and she asked if I was getting good care and I told her I
couldn't get anybody to take some time and set things up for me so I could
reach
them because they kept running off and she walked to the door and hollered at
a cna that came rushing to her call and told her who I was and I remember
her telling her that this man is not helpless in fact he's very capable of
anything and if you'd take 15 minutes with him to put things in his reach and
do
some adjusting then he probably won't call you for hours. After that it got
better but there's no place like home Dorothy!
Glad you're back Dana
Mark Jackson
RollinOn
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Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 10:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] antibiotics
I just got out of the hospital Friday after being in for seven days with
pneumonia. I really like to know about the yogurt and how much should be
taken
after being on IV's for seven days. They always have trouble getting an IV
in me. My first one quit working and they tried to do a pic line 2 times
without success so the anesthesiologist used my neck. They were going to take
me
to radiology to try again but they decided to go with the neck IV and my
pneumonia finally looked better. My bowels quit working also and luckily it
was
not a blockage, so I was put on Myralax and after about four days it started
working. I was so miserable as it looked like I had a basketball in my
stomach.
It is unreal the kind of care you get in the hospital for at least this one.
If my mother had not been around, I don't know if I would have gotten my
bowels to work again.
I would love to hear about others hospital experiences and if the nurses
will do digitals properly. I found that to be a real problem. I was glad to
have a good mattress that did not give me any breakdown.
I was so anxious to get home, so I could get proper care. It did not help
that my doctor did not come until the fifth day.
I was told that the hospital had closed it's ER shortly after I was
admitted, but the county ask it to open again.
How do you find the hospital that can give you proper clear? I go to the
hospital very seldomly, but it is usually for UTI, respiratory problems, last
time it was a coma, because of UTI that was septic. I remember not being that
good the last time and I was in ICU at a different hospital, because the
hospital that my doctors are was full. I remember going to the floor my last
day, and the CNA just disappearing during breakfast and they had to have
persons from other departments get me ready to go home. It's incredibly sad
that
you don't feel safe in the hospital.
Dana ( C-4-5, 33 years post, 54, Prairie Village, Kansas, which is a suburb
of Kansas City Missouri)
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