Yesterday I said if I still felt bad I was going to the ER. Well this morning I woke up and felt just horrible. I still had a headache (like for the 1 1/2-2 weeks) I was also weak, shaky, feet felt like 2 sweating ice cubes, kinda lightheaded, and pukey oh and bleeding. I mean I felt bad and was scared. I did not want to load the family up for a long trip to Savannah (bigger city). So at 8:30am I loaded myself up alone and went to our local hospital. Its a small town and early morning so I figured I would be in and out with an answer in a few hours. This was not to be.
When I got there there was just a few people waiting I thought not bad. Well the triage nurse asked me a whole line of idiotic questions IMO. But the topper was "Do you think the bleeding is just your period" I contained myself enough not to bite her head off. But I did answer like this " If I thought it ws my period do you think I would be here". So anyways got through that and the paper work. And the waiting begins.
I did not get called back till 2pm. Not a typo here it took 6 hours to get called. Then a nurse asks me "do you think your pregnant." Hmmm Well I have been here twice in a month for bleeding and I have been bleeding off and on since July so no I have to say I do not think I am pregnant. Yet I still have to give (TMI) a specimen. An hour later (3pm) she comes back to get it. I am crying by this point begging to see a doctor. Well I don't know when they will get to you. So I wait another hour crying, mad, frustrated and upset. By 4pm I have still not seen a doctor or anything. I have been there 8 hours and I have had enough and I am mad.
So I get dressed walk out of the room and say loudly "Ya'll can give this room to someone else because its painfully obvious no one cares about the girl bleeding and I am leaving". So now I have a nurse following me down the hall asking me if I am leaving. I said yep and I am not saying no papers (ya know discharge papers whatever). I stop in the lobby to call hubby to tell him I have not been seen in 8hours and I will be on the way home once I stop and get some food because I have not ate anything since the night before. And there was a woman in the lobby who had been there as long as I had (she had family being seen) asked if I had seen a doctor. Told her nope been here 8 hours and never saw a doctor and I was leaving to go to Savannah to actually get some help (last part said loudly because there were people there that I wanted them to know how I was treated). Said a few not so nice things about the hospital and walked out.
Now normally I am not like this. But with all the stress and frustration and doctors treating like dirt I had had enough. And just blew a fuse in front of everyone and their brother. And there is probably a big note in my file that says bar this loony at the door.
Takes a deep breath. I needed to let that out. It was just a bad bad day all the way around for me. Heck its been a bad couple of months for me. And I was bound to blow a fuse at some point. I just kinda regret it was in public and in the middle of a hospital. I just can't wait for all this to be over with so I can go back to my calm don't rock the boat kinda person.
Thanks for listening.
When I got there there was just a few people waiting I thought not bad. Well the triage nurse asked me a whole line of idiotic questions IMO. But the topper was "Do you think the bleeding is just your period" I contained myself enough not to bite her head off. But I did answer like this " If I thought it ws my period do you think I would be here". So anyways got through that and the paper work. And the waiting begins.
I did not get called back till 2pm. Not a typo here it took 6 hours to get called. Then a nurse asks me "do you think your pregnant." Hmmm Well I have been here twice in a month for bleeding and I have been bleeding off and on since July so no I have to say I do not think I am pregnant. Yet I still have to give (TMI) a specimen. An hour later (3pm) she comes back to get it. I am crying by this point begging to see a doctor. Well I don't know when they will get to you. So I wait another hour crying, mad, frustrated and upset. By 4pm I have still not seen a doctor or anything. I have been there 8 hours and I have had enough and I am mad.
So I get dressed walk out of the room and say loudly "Ya'll can give this room to someone else because its painfully obvious no one cares about the girl bleeding and I am leaving". So now I have a nurse following me down the hall asking me if I am leaving. I said yep and I am not saying no papers (ya know discharge papers whatever). I stop in the lobby to call hubby to tell him I have not been seen in 8hours and I will be on the way home once I stop and get some food because I have not ate anything since the night before. And there was a woman in the lobby who had been there as long as I had (she had family being seen) asked if I had seen a doctor. Told her nope been here 8 hours and never saw a doctor and I was leaving to go to Savannah to actually get some help (last part said loudly because there were people there that I wanted them to know how I was treated). Said a few not so nice things about the hospital and walked out.
Now normally I am not like this. But with all the stress and frustration and doctors treating like dirt I had had enough. And just blew a fuse in front of everyone and their brother. And there is probably a big note in my file that says bar this loony at the door.
Takes a deep breath. I needed to let that out. It was just a bad bad day all the way around for me. Heck its been a bad couple of months for me. And I was bound to blow a fuse at some point. I just kinda regret it was in public and in the middle of a hospital. I just can't wait for all this to be over with so I can go back to my calm don't rock the boat kinda person.
Thanks for listening.