Anti Pleasure

Well it’s been a little while since I have posted here, cannot really say I have been in the mood.

For the second time my surgery has been pushed back, because of a minor mistake from SEVERAL different nurses.

The hospital in my hometown is SO unjust, there is only one gynecologist in the city so that means he is the only one who is able to perform the type of labotomy surgery that I need done for a (LARGE) ovarian cyst. And also, I have gone in for pre-op to one nurse, everything was a go, and on November 25th a nurse asked me all these questions, drugged me up with the usuals before surgery and then I waited for SIX HOURS only to be sent home. Why? Because once again, one gynecologist in the city… and something had either gone wrong or gone on longer with a patient who most likely had cancer, or maybe she was having a baby, I don’t know… but he deals with delivering babies, cancer, problems with ovaries etc. 

Anyways… my surgery had been reschedule three weeks later, on December 16th. I received a call from the hospital on December 10th from some spacey nurse who didn’t seem to remember what she needed to ask me. Then I go in at 9 in the morning to the hospital, get drugged up again, asked questions like if I was on any medications and whatnot, I TOLD them that I took ib profen for pain and the nurse just nodded, “okay!” and sent me to a bed to “relax” before my surgery.

Now, my wife brought up to one of the nurses (because, I am researcher and I always look up things just to be on the safe side) she said, “she took ib profen the night before and we read on the internet that you could hemorage or that it wasn’t safe to have surgery the next day.”

Now I had gone through FOUR DIFFERENT NURSES since the 25th of November, all of them not telling me that you ARE NOT supposed to take ib profen ten days before your surgery! I have been taking ib profen non-stop obviously ten days before my surgery,  both times! 

All four nurses neglected to tell me that it was dangerous and really risky to be taking ib profen ten days before your surgery. IS THIS A LITTLE MISTAKE? NO! Because this little incident could have gotten me killed. I almost went to surgery but my wife had brought up the fact that I had been taking ib profen. 

It just makes me think, do these nurses even care? They are talking about going on strike, AND WHAT FOR? NONE OF YOU ARE DOING YOUR JOBS! You all sit around talking about your nails and your hair, or when you are going on break… you’re too busy to look after patients that could die because of a SIMPLE thing that you forgot to tell me, you halfwits! 

I am so angered by the nurses here. I am sure that some of them are working these 12 hour shifts and really deserve the extra pay, but most of you, I’m sorry, YOU DO NOT deserve a raise until you do your job.

I just can’t even believe it… my surgery being pushed back for the second time because nurses didn’t tell me this small factor. Thanks a lot, I have been out of work for months and months now and I just wanted this over with. The only bright side to this is that I don’t have to be in pain during the Christmas holidays… but at this point I am so angered, I don’t care, I just wanted the surgery done. How the nurses never even asked the question if I was taking certain medications every day makes me wonder who else has died or has had excessive bleeding in surgery that could lead to fatality.

UGH and ugh and ughhhhhhhhhh!

Damn hospitals and damn nurses.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS