re: Your worst hospital experience

I remember learning about TT in 7th grade sex Ed and being terrified of it to this day.
One day you wake up with a giant nut. Wtf?

I was forced to wear a mask to enter the building.

It was horrible. I had to go cleanse myself by saying 3 “don’t tread on me”‘s and 2 “stop the steal”s

I had to have surgery on my radius because I had shattered the joint in a dirt bike crash. When they wheeled me in to surgery there was heavy metal rock music playing and an open box of pizza on a stainless steel table next to me. The next thing I know they tell me to count backwards from 10 and I was out. The surgery went well but I was a little freaked out

The surgery was done by Dr Bankston at Surgical Specialties in Baton Rouge.

Mine was while working. Seen a couple kids get die, shite haunts you for a long time.

I won’t go into it again, but my worst hospital experience is detailed in the near death experience thread from this past weekend.

Having said that, Grandview is an outstanding hospital and the only one I’ll use.

My mom had early onset Alzheimer's. About 10 years ago at 2 am Christmas morning the nursing home called and said she had a seizure and were sending her to the hospital.
One of the saddest days of my life having to sit in the hospital with her on Christmas. She was 60 at the time. I sat there thinking about all of the good times she would miss with my kids and my sisters kids. Life can be a brutal motherfricker.

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 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? ?

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That MF'r would be me...
Worked for 15 years for the #1 company supplying hospital beds, stretchers and patient room furniture.. Pretty much all of BR hospitals have my stuff. It is quite uncomfortable isn't it?
When you have to account for 300+ pound patients and family members.. with blood and bodily fluids getting on everything, which therefore needs to be wipeable/sterilizable, and the fact that staff wants you to go home anyway, it makes for some uncomfortable stuff. At least the patient bed mattress has evolved. The abused room furniture is built to last and will never be comfortable.

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One day you wake up with a giant nut. Wtf?

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Literally woke up to go piss and I could barely walk. The next day when it had gotten to grapefruit size I was walking like Quasimodo carrying a bowling ball between his legs.

My mom was in icu and was going into organ failure. She was was somewhat alert but was being kept alive with machines. She was obviously in pain and my sisters and I would go in when allowed and talk to her and watch her struggle. This went on all day on a Thursday and they were going to try a different procedure to keep her alive that night. Friday morning we were told they had to stop the procedure and there was nothing they could do except sedate her. The Doctor met with my siblings and me and told us she was going to die. We continued to visit her with family members but hours went by since we were told of her fate but nobody from the hospital was talking about when it would end. I finally pulled a nurse aside and asked her. Nurses came in and disconnected all of the tubes and mom passed within 10 seconds. It has taken me a few years to get the image of her in that bed with tubes going to her mouth and nose. I pass by the hospital regularly and I still don’t look at the building as I drive by and it’s been 5 years.

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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.

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Ah, not that it matters, but just so you know then, that incision was was not to look for a vein. It sounds like they were concerned about compartment syndrome, and performed a procedure called a fasciotomy to preserve bloodflow to your foot.