I don't like the waking up in the middle of the night thing either. What annoys me the most about it is that I am left alone for most of the day, but at night I am bothered every 3-4 hours for treatments, X-rays, labs, and vitals. Very annoying. My doctor has to put orders in my chart to leave me alone after 10pm until it's for medication. I've also had my share of hospital horror stories. 1) When I was a kid I had beeped my nursed because my arm was hurting. She was busy with an actual emergency and no other nurse thought it was important enough to bother her. By the time my mother had shown up my arm was pretty swollen (like Pop-eye's lower arm). My mom went and got a nurse, who finally got my nurse. My nurse was so apologetic. She immediately removed my IV and put compresses on my arm. She then went and had a chat with the nurse who hadn't relayed my original message in the first place. 2) The hospital I go to is a teaching hospital, and one time when I went in the student Dr. who admitted me took one look at me (I look very healthy, even when I'm sick) and said that if I was his patient he would not have put me in the hospital over a simple cold (I had a major staph infection). My mother was so angry with him, she requested that he not see me again. 3) When I was 16 a nurse had tried to put an IV in, she missed and hit the bone in my wrist. I don't do well with pain. When I had requested something to take the pain away the intern refused. I had to call my doctor and he had to order pain medicine. By then my hand was swelling up. 4) What I hated the most was when the nurse would forget to bring my enzymes. It was a never ending battle trying to explain that I needed them as soon as my food arrived. My doctor now orders that I have a bottle bedside so that I can eat whatever I want. 5) Speaking of meals, what annoys me most these days is that when I tell the dietarian on staff that I cannot have caffiene, soy, or eggs, I always end up recieving those items (My hospital doesn't have a menu that you can choose from, say it costs too much money). 6) I had an argument with an intern over how often I take a medication. My doctor orders that I take a certain med once a week. The intern tried telling me that I had to have it every day. He was set straight. 7) My last hospital stay was a bit scary. I had been moved to the adult ward. My first night there, I was trying to get some sleep when I heard something. I can't see very well without my glasses on but I could see a figure in my room. I reached for my glasses thinking it was a nurse. It was some guy standing there butt naked. I beeped for my nurse I wanted to scream so badly but I was so sick I could barely speak, so I grabbed things to throw. He left, but it took my nurse thirty minutes to show up. When I finally explained what had happened, she said that one of the patients was confused and had been wondering around the hospital floor in the nude. I had my boyfriend notified and he stayed with me the rest of the time.
That's it for now. My mother has more so I'd have to ask her.
