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Your worst hospital experience

Posted on 12/11/22 at 11:35 pm
Posted by theantiquetiger
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Posted on 12/11/22 at 11:35 pm
I’ll start:

Three years ago, the family is on vacation in New Mexico/Arizona/Las Vegas.
The first half of the trip was for me. My wife isn’t much of an outdoors girl.
I spent three days in the desert, photographing, a little hiking, etc.
The fourth day, we go to Vegas. This is middle of July, it’s 105+ deg outside. We walk up and down the strip, etc. I started feeling fatigued, but not too bad. The feeling got worse the next two days, and my chest felt funny. I go to a walk in medical clinic. They discover my heart was skipping a beat every fourth beat. I never had irregular heart beat before. He thought I may have had a heart attack.
He sends me to the hospital that the clinic was associated with, the Sunrise Hospital. That sounds like a nice place.
Holy shite, I get there and discover it’s an inter-city hospital. The ER didn’t have private rooms or even curtains. It was one big room with chairs and beds, all filled with crack and methheads looking for a fix. People just puking and bleeding on the floor where they sat. I finally told my wife to just go back to the room while I waited on the blood results.
Granted, I was treated like royalty because I had insurance and paid my co-pay in cash.
Come to find out I was dehydrated and had a panic attack. As soon as the doctor told me I didn’t have a heart attack, it was like a switch went off. I felt perfect instantly.
I was back at the room, went out drinking and gambling that night.

TLTR - if you ever in Vegas, do not go to Sunrise hospital ER.
Posted by Tyga Woods
South Central Jupiter Island, FL
Member since Sep 2016
42280 posts
Posted on 12/11/22 at 11:44 pm to
quote:

inter-city hospital


Almost
Posted by RummelTiger
Official TD Sauces Club Member
Member since Aug 2004
93627 posts
Posted on 12/11/22 at 11:46 pm to
quote:

Tyga Woods


Better than those intra-city hospitals…
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
37923 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 12:17 am to
I saw a "Bad Strip Club" experience thread right underneath this one. I wonder if there is any overlap...
Posted by cwil177
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
29647 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 12:22 am to
Having my ER doctor miss my perforated ulcer. Thankfully the next hospital caught it and I had a successful surgery.

Now, as an ER doctor, having to tell someone their kid is dead. Absolutely sucks.
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
37923 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 12:36 am to
quote:

Now, as an ER doctor, having to tell someone their kid is dead. Absolutely sucks.


Yeah, when watching Law and Order reruns they make it look easy...but I can't imagine having to do that.
Posted by go_tigres
Member since Sep 2013
5485 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 5:27 am to
Went to er with one testicle the size of an orange. Er doc misdiagnosed it as a simple infection. Went home with antibiotics. Next day, testicle was the size of a grapefruit. Went to different er where the correctly diagnosed it as testicular torsion too far gone to save. Sent to OR for removal of said testicle.

That was a shitty weekend.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
38053 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 5:50 am to
That’s why you have two of them.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
63419 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:00 am to
Sharing a room at the old Lady of the Lake with an old guy who smoked.
Posted by Potchafa
Avoyelles
Member since Jul 2016
4453 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:00 am to
Six years old, Christmas eve morning. Decided to start my own fire and ended up with third degree burns on 30% of my body. Laid on a ER table with just a sheet on screaming for four hours in Marksville hospital. Then rushed to Baton Rouge General. I had to much pain medicine in me from the idiots in Marksville ER, so they had to cut a main vein from my left leg from my ankle to my hip. No pain meds. I passed out but not before smelling burning flesh from the tool they where using and being strapped to a table.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
138940 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:17 am to
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so they had to cut a main vein from my left leg from my ankle to my hip


That makes no sense unless the leg was so badly damaged they suspected compartment syndrome.
Third degree burns over 30% of your body though, holy smokes that's rough! Rehab must have sucked.
This post was edited on 12/12/22 at 12:41 pm
Posted by BabySam
FL
Member since Oct 2010
1592 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:19 am to
quote:

go_tigres


And no official name change request for uno_cajone_tigre
Posted by Potchafa
Avoyelles
Member since Jul 2016
4453 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:20 am to
I was wearing jogging pants, and the elastic band around my ankle had melted and cut circulation off to my foot. I almost lost my foot. My entire left leg was burned.
Posted by TomJoadGhost
Alabama
Member since Nov 2022
1003 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:31 am to
Holding my mom’s hand while she died.
Posted by Graton
Member since Jun 2017
371 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:42 am to
Last year in April I was diagnosed with Covid-19 after over a week of running fever. Throughout that week, I went to the urgent care and my Primary care Doctor and repeatedly tested negative for Covid. When I finally tested positive I had already developed double lung pneumonia. I got an antibody infusion and the fever went away but my oxygen level kept dropping by the day. I finally went to the emergency room when I realized I couldn't make it 20 feet to the bathroom without getting out of breath. My oxygen level was in the low 70's. I got a CT of my chest and they discovered what appeared to be an air pocket around my heart. I was admitted to the hospital on oxygen and they told me that I needed to have chest tubes put in to get rid of the air pocket. I remember getting wheeled to the operating room and as soon as they told me to take a deep breath of the anesthesia, I couldn't breathe. I remember panicking and then the room went black. I woke up in ICU on a ventilator but they never put in the chest tubes. All I could think was, "I have covid and I'm on a ventilator. I know how this story ends. This sucks because I can't even see my wife or kids before I die." Obviously I recovered and was discharged but thinking I was going to die without seeing my family again was a terrible experience.
Posted by FemaleTiger
neverneverland
Member since Jul 2008
873 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:44 am to
Being told my son didn't survive the car accident.

Worst day of my life.
Posted by Tempratt
Member since Oct 2013
15199 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:46 am to
quote:

Having my ER doctor miss my perforated ulcer.


My dad had one of those that separated and stomach contents spilled into this body.

I was a little kid and it crushed me.
Posted by Cajun367
S. Louisiana
Member since Oct 2017
1943 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:02 am to
I just want to find the MF who has the monopoly on supplying every single hospital with the chair, bed/couch and TV in their delivery/post delivery rooms. Like damn, for the money people money spend, can they go to home furniture once every decade?
Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
11067 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:11 am to
My brother has a nasty scar on his chin.

When he was a kid he busted it open and when my mom took him to the ER in rural Texas in the 80’s, the doctors weren’t available because “the cowboys are on.”

So my mom took him home and stitched/taped it up best she could.
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
23173 posts
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:35 am to
I had colitis about 35 years ago. One night I had cramps and bleeding from my rectum. Went to the ER. Was told to remove pants and underwear and wait for the doctor. He came in with 6 medical students. Bad enough having one person examine your rectum. 7 is a bit much.
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