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[dru_evilista]

I haven't updated my livejournal in a while, as it's mostly a fandom journal and I haven't been working on fic or anything lately, and the last two weeks or so have been pure hell.

I just got home from hospital...at 12:30 am.

My dad went into the hospital on Halloween with trouble breathing. Then everything just goes down hill. They tell us he's in kidney failure and congestive heart failure, he keeps getting sicker and sicker, and he's slurring so bad I can't understand a word he's saying. And they all totally ignore us telling them this. We KEPP saying over and over that he's falling asleep in the middle of conversations, that he's slurring, that he can;t remember anything, etc... andnthey just go "Oh he's fine. I haven't noticed anything." and shit like that.

Then one day the retards decide that it's a great idea to get a 400lb man who's so shaky and weak he CAN'T FEED HIMSELF,(plus was already handicapped for the last 8 years and in a wheelchair) out of bed, and he ends up falling and getting hurt, and ripping open a old ulcer on his leg that had finely been closing, so he was bleeding all over.

So after my mom screaming at them alot, and a few more days of shoddy care, we go at like 9am in today and find out in the night suddenly he couldn't swallow or speak. Cue a LOT more screaming and by 2pm we get him transfered to a better hospital. (A SERIOUSLY better hospital. It's HUGE and clean and nice and the staff are not morons, and there's actual doctors in the building and not just there for 5 minutes in the morning then nothing but nurses who aren't allowed to do shit without taking forever to call a doctor and get permission.)

In a couple hours they find out what's wrong and are treating him and moving him to the NuroICU, compared to NINE FUCKING DAYS where the other hospital shoved him into a back room and did nothing but make my dad worse. I hope we fucking sue them all to hell and back. And lets not even get into the motherfucking piece of shit who when on call, and called about a prescription my dad needed, cause the morons screwed up and lost my dads drug list, said "Oh and I'll add a script for Vicodin, that'll knock him out so he doesn't bother me anymore." I hope that asshole gets struck by lightning!

And now it's like 1am, and my brother is finely out of the bathroom so I can wash my makeup off and go to bed...

Comments

[samueljames]

I'm sorry real life has been so tough. That first hospital sounds really awful and I'm glad your dad was able to be moved to a better hospital. I hope they'll be able to take good care of him so that you know he's being looked after. Take care.

[daughterjudy53.livejournal.com]

God...some buttfuckers just shouldn't be allowed to go to medical school. I'm so sorry, Dru. It was many, many years ago, but, I went through the same thing with my dad. Three long months of it. They were decent to him, though. Seriously, get a lawyer. There's no excuse for that shit. And, get some rest yourself. All this is as draining on the family as it is on the patient. I'll just be thinking 'bout ya.

[dru_evilista]

Yeah it's exhausting. And we're talking to our lawyer, we don't even care if we don't get money or anything, we just want to stop these idiots from hurting anyone else. The sheer incompetence of that hospital is unspeakable. When we were transferring dad, my brother and I were following by car the the nurses were supposed to have directions to the other hospital...it took over half on hour with THREE nurses trying to figure out how to use Mapquest, then try to figure out how to use the printer. I mean seriously, how can you trust anyone who can't even print bloody directions?!

[dru_evilista]

Thanks...yeah the new hospital is better, though he's still not doing well...

[diamond9697.livejournal.com]

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I hope you guys sue the shit out of that place too. Places like that should be shut down, then salted and burned just in case. ((hugs))

[dru_evilista]

Yeah we're suing. We're suing them HARD! These people should not be allowed to hurt anyone else like they hurt my dad.

And as an aside, in the car as we were ranting about everything, we started thinking and realized our family doctor seriously sucks for not only missing all this with dad who he's seen regularly for like 15 years, but like never managing to treat my moms hurt ankle(which is STILL hurt, no matter how much he brushed it off with "Oh it's just a sprain" and my sinus infections, that it took a PA in the ER (after the guy who was supposed to be covering for our Doctor while he was on vacation, told me "You're not my patient, go to the ER") to tell me "You should take allergy meds, it'd stop you from getting sinus infections every month." I did, and haven't had one in like a 5 years. But did the doctor every day that to me? No. Fail.

[diamond9697.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Sounds like it's time for a new doctor too.

[lwitch.livejournal.com]

Hop your dad is doing a little better and being treated properly now. Virtual hugs to you. *great big squeezy hug*

[dru_evilista]

Yeah the new hospital is light years better. It's a huge medical center, is like a couple miles long, made of several buildings, great friendly, good at their jobs staff, and as a added perk(as we're eating so, so, so SO many meals there) the cafeteria is awesome.

And dad's doing a bit better. He can swallow now, so they're letting him eat again(till this morning he hadn't been able to eat anything since Sunday, cause they were worried he might get stuff in his lungs), and he's getting a bit of speech back. Only a few words, and frequently not what he means to say, but the doctors and nurses say it'll get better with time.