Why I Hate Hospitals!

This is just my rant for today, and I know It is NOTHING compared to what some of you have gone through, but it makes me angry, nonetheless.

At 12:30 Tuesday morning, my son called me so sick he could barely talk. He had been vomiting and running to the bathroom for 6 hours nonstop and could not keep anything down. He thought he might have food poisoning. I got dressed and we picked him up and arrived at the hospital at 1 AM, got him in a wheelchair, and registered. A nurse took blood, put in a picc line, and moved him to a hallway between the two emg corriders. Many people, staff and patients, came and went from those corridors. No nurse ever checked on him. Two hours later, I found the nurse who had placed us there and asked her if I should begin making funeral arrangements or if someone could possibly see him. She told me the wait was because there were no clean rooms and couldn't give me an approximate time of how much longer we would have to wait. I relayed this info to my son, who was doubled over in pain and could not lay down in the NON RECLINING Recliner he had been left in. They had been kind enough to provide him with a blanket, so he said "the hell with this" and spread the blanket on the floor in the hallway and lay down on it in a fetal position.

WELL, THAT GOT THEIR ATTENTION!! Less than a minute later, 2 nurses came down the hall, and said "Oh, how are you feeling. We CAN'T have this. Let me make up this cot over here for you." Hubby said "Maybe if you are this busy, we should take him somewhere else." the male nurse responded, "You are free to take him anywhere you choose, sir. After all, he is the patient and the CUSTOMER." Gee, how refreshing to know that you are the CUSTOMER. I bit my tongue(Hubby did not), and told the nurse, we just needed some help for him.

Soon , he was moved into a room, 4 bags of fluid were given, and 3 anti-nausea shots. He could not be given anti cramping med because the last one he got caused a seizure.

During the next 7 hours, I had occasion to walk through the emg area a few times and noticed that all the empty rooms of the 50 total were dirty. I'm wondering whose job it is to keep these rooms clean and ready for emergency patients. Surely, not the nurses.
It is a shame that he had to lay on the floor to get any recognition.

I warned thxmiker about this hospital, and ONLY took my son there because it was an emergency and he lives a block from it. From now on, I will drive the 15 miles to a hospital that I know has the patient's welfare in mind and does not just consider him a CUSTOMER.

My son is feeling much better now. My rant is over. Thanks for listening.

Luv,

Wolfen