Yesterday, I told you that there was more to tell about the
last few days. Tuesday on the way to the doctor’s office Frank had to stop and
wait for a mother and two young deer moved out of the road. It was wonderful to
just sit there for a moment and watch them. They finally turned and turned back
the way they had come and ran back into the woods. The smaller deer did not
have any spots, and the bottoms of their tails were bright white. I didn’t notice the signs on any antlers on
either of them. In fact I almost didn’t see the 2nd young deer
because of how far back in the woods it was, the other two were out on the
road. This happened around 9 am, which I thought was very late in the day time
to see them.
Now to update you on my G-tube, the doctor that put in says
there are only three reasons to replace it. 1) it gets pulled out, 2) it gets clogged
and can’t be cleared out, or 3) It becomes dried and brittle. None of those
things have happened she says that I am doing a very good job of keeping the
site nice and clean. I only need to go back to see her have gotten into a
problem. She cleaned the area and tightens the G-tube down.
It was after I she
had done the exam that she saw my backside has I got off her exam table. Then
she became alarmed at the size of the swelling she saw. She said for it to be
that size than my hip had to be broken, dislocated or a very large
hematoma. She called the ER and told
that she was sending me directly over to be examined. She hoped that would
speed things up things for us at the ER but it didn’t help. After all the new
ER department had only been open for a day. Some equipment didn’t work and it
turned out that it just hadn’t been plugged in. The new ER has close to twice
has many patient treatment area’s but they don’t have any more staff to care
for the patients, so I ended up waiting an awful long time to go upstairs to my
hospital room. I registered into the ER at 10:30 am on Tuesday, but did not get
admitted to my room until 4:30 am on Wednesday.
That was well over 12 hours after they made the discussion to admit me.
One of the good things that happened to me was that they listened
to me about my night feedings and how they needed to be done in two parts. I
told them in them in the ER that I
would fight them if they didn’t do it my way. I know what works in my crazy
sick ole body. I did not get the feeding that night because they did not have
the information before noon on Tuesday.
I think that it was on Wednesday that a technician that
wanted to draw blood from my port sight. He was told that it was in use but he
didn’t care about that. That could be stopped; he could draw the blood and then
started up all over again. My nurses
would not allow him to do this. They had to get the doctor to write orders in
my chart to stop this technician. It was hours later when a different
technician came and drew the blood from my arm the way that we needed it to be
done.
The most interesting thing that happened was that three
people from management came in to ask me a lot of questions about my care. They
spent over 30 minutes talking with me. They asked all types of questions, the
only thing that they didn’t ask about was the food. Although they wanted to know about this
hospital stay; but I did not hesitate to tell them that twice this year I had
bad experiences in this hospital. They
took notes and listened carefully to everything I had to say.
No one wants to be a patient in a hospital, I can only think
of one good reason to be in the hospital that is to have a baby. But the staff
made this visit a good one.
Now to get to today’s events. My nurse Cookie came to see
how I was doing. On Wednesday, while in the hospital an IV Nurse said the wrong
port needle had been used in my port. They had not used a blue disk which
somehow is supposed prevent infection.
This needle comes with a blue tubing attached to it. I told Cookie all
about it. She explained to me that the hospital and the VNA get their supplies
from different suppliers. She is going to ask her supervisors to look into what
the IV Nurse said to try to make the patients care is contestant. Now I want
EVERYONE to know that I get great care from the VNA. Cookie and the other VNA nurses that have
treated me are great people.
A couple of hours after Cookie left I started feeling sick.
I have a sore throat, upset stomach, and a headache. I have gone to bed and
taken a couple hour naps. But I am not running a temperature. I will keep
myself quiet and stay home from Church
tomorrow. I know that I need that rest.
