Bluerose- not gallbladder or a stone or cancer related

jane65

Hi Bluerose,
I read your post about your latest trials, and I sympathize with your ridiculous attempt to get proper medical care. I wish you good luck, the stress must be intolerable.

Regarding your comment about my health coverage and the ER, I have excellent medical coverage.
I'm on Medicare and have a second private ins., so coverage or cost are not a factor. Frankly that is what makes me crazy and frightens me about how our administration wants to overhaul our medical coverage.

I did go the the ER and had a CT scan, blood work and saw the ER doctor with no problem. A stone, or gallbladder problem were ruled out and the problem is my 2 hernias which must be operated on. I've seen my surgeon and have a date for surgery next month, already scheduled. I chose to delay it to prepare myself, with my doctor's approval.

The way you're being treated is criminal, considering that you're dealing with a potentially deadly situation, and you've already been through such a serious disease.

I wish you well, maybe you should contact a newspaper or TV station and have them come with you to sit in a doctor's office demanding to be seen.

Our President is planning to cut a billion dollars from Medicare, and add millions of new patients to the roles, with no additional doctors to care for them, I can't see how rationing and waiting lines can be avoided.

Good luck to you,
Jane

bluerose

Left you a note under your other topic here


Sounds like you have a wonderful health care team, I am so happy for you and jealous at the same time. Sigh.

I won't go through it all again so if you could read my comment to you there. I couldn't explain it all but the ER was awful this morning and I wound up walking out untreated due to the nurses horrible attitude. I went in by ambulance and she said there was no bed for me to lie down and stuck me in the waiting room with others who were coughing up lungs (I get infections quickly) and wouldnt tell me how long the wait so I could decide if I could stand sitting that long. Its a long story but was a smart alec about it all and I was not sure I would get good health care after that incident with the nurse so I had no choice but to go.

I called the patient relations dept this morning when they opened and told them and to boot the grouchy nurse I had told me that on top of her treatment she was going to make sure I paid for the ambulance as I was leaving - which makes no sense since it had nothing to do with my condition and no doctor had even seen me yet. I guess some people misuse ambulances and she decided, a vendetta obviously as we werent seeing eye to eye, that she would make me pay for the ambulance and it is $250. What the heck? Like I would call an ambulance for nothing, ridiculous. Anywho they are looking into it, just what I needed more stress. The ambulance drivers had got a higher blood pressure than normal.

If I didnt have a high blood pressure before I went in I sure did after meeting that nurse. Unreal. Just lucky I guess. Shesssh. Blessings, Bluerose