By: Jonny
Chapter 1 – Three Doctors Grim
Doctor 1
This adventure began when my I had cramps all morning and all day, no amount of medicine could get them to go away. So before MedCare closed a local clinic I decided to do something about it. The pain was unbearable in the waiting room as I waited for a good two hours. Finally the doctor could see me, by the time he got to the room I was double over on the examining bench. They took my blood and sent me home with gas
Doctor 2
Later that night the pain became worse, so bad I thought there where knives inside of me. My parents finally convinced me to go to the emergency room. I went, waited in agony, by this time I was vomiting every thirty minutes from the paint and nausea. About two hours went by and they decided it was time to see me. I had a doctor who was probably not a day over 94 years old who after taking my x-rays, ultrasounds, and blood work I waited another hour to see him again and he decided my pancreas. was inflamed and told me to stop drinking alcohol. Yes now I am supposedly an alcoholic. He gave me a pain show and sent me home.
Doctor 3
Upon the next morning I don't know how I was still alive. The pain was unbearable, all day I lay in cramps, vomited, I haven't eaten in days. They day kept by and nightfall came. It was then I decided to go to the emergency room yet again I figured It was something life threatening by now. I couldn't walk unless I was completely hunched over and I ached from vomiting.
I got to the emergency room and put my little slip of paper in the box for admittance and waited in the emergency room. About two hours later they finally decided to triage me. The triage nurse said with much surprise and exclamation: Name, social…cant you repeat that, social…etc…This time they decided to give me a green sticker because it seemed my case wasn't serious to them. So my wait continued in the waiting room, for five more long hours of cramps and vomiting.
Around three in the morning they decided to admit me, They began my x-rays once again and blood work. The doctor came in and for once this one knew what he was talking about, my appendix had burst and I was in need of immediate surgery it seems it had happened quite some time ago. And so the second part of my adventure began.
Pre-Op
Now this surgery had to happen, and it had to happen now, so there was no not eating for a period of time there was no drinking radioactive fluid and waiting 2 hours for reverse xray screening, no they decided the best thing to do at the time in all this chaos was to give me a 32oz enema. Yes in all my vomiting, pain, infection, and disease, I go to lay on a table while (a cute) male nurse shot a gallon of water into my ass. I even got to hold it in for ten minutes so it could fill me completely up and conveniently when it was over I asked where the bathroom was and it was all the way down the hall. So I squeezed my ass and wobbled past a hallway full of people where I spent the next ten minutes in the bathroom crapping my brains out with the trash can in from of me throwing up. I made it back down the hall way and readied for surgery.
My surgeon was Doctor Westbrook and if I ever have another surgery I would definitely ask for him he did a really good job and was really nice too.
They rolled me into surgery, but of course they room they normally use was under construction, so they decided to do my surgery in the birthing ward, so they wheeled my past a hallway full of screaming woman and babies, knocked by our with anesthesia and my surgery began.
CHAPTER 2: Onslow Memorial "Where People !?$!@"
The Awakening
I awoke not remembering falling asleep or where I was I can't remember too much about the next hour just felt in pain and nauseated.
Some fun events at the hospital:
I had extreme nausea for about four days, so they prescribed by medicine for, and when they shot it into my veins the nausea went away, it felt like my body was soaked in oragel and I became a zombie. If that's the solution for nausea let me throw up all day first!
Morphine, everybody knows its a powerful painkiller, but in the middle of the night when you're sweating, throwing up, you don't feel pain, but if you try to sleep, you'll see:
Frogs on motorcycles
Sticks that become bugs
People dying
Creatures beyond imagination
Voices
You'll ride elephants down western blvd.
Colors and patterns that look like an actually kaleidoscope
So you have to keep your eyes open so these things don't try to attack you or an elephant doesn't try to take your for a ride.
I remember one night I woke up extra wet, I checked to see if I peed or not. Id didnt, I had ripped my IV out and I bled all over the bed and antibiotics where running into the sheets for a good 20 minutes, It looked like something from killer clowns a mass of blood and fluid. So when the nurser finally got me out of laying in my own blood I went to the bathroom to vomit, throwing my fingers down my throat I forgot they where coveredin iv antibiotics that tasted like fiber glass.
Fishing – One incident resolved in a nurse who couldn't do an IV she shoved IV's throw my arms and poked my veins for the longest time and when I asked her why this was taking so long she blamed it on me…yea…
In the Middle of the night I got a lot of rest my schedule would follow:
10:00pm dose of drugs and drift to sleep
11:30pm Wake up in a puddle of sweat
12:00am Vital check: Blood pressure, Pulse, Oxygen check, temperature
Throw up
1:00am dose of medicine/Anitbiotics
Diarrhea
2:00-3:00 visiting with the elephants
Throw up
4:00 dosing off to sleep
4:30 Antibiotics
Diarrhea
5:00 Vitals again
Throw up
6:00 Blood draw
6:30 Medication/Antibiotics
Throw up
7:00 bed change sweat covered sheets/shift change new nurses same store
Yeah a nice steady sleep
I'd wake up in the middle of the night soaked in sweat from the morphine and when you push the button and call a nurse the sheets might as well dry them.
Average time for nurses to come after paged: 5 Days
What I ate for 5 days in the hospital and 2 days of illness:
1 can of apple juice
4 bottles of orange Gatorade
A pudding
Cup of Rice Krispies
Total times I threw up: 60-80
Medicine Prescribed through 7 day duration: 16
4 Nausea Medications
5 Pain Killers
5 Antibiotics
1 For Cramps
1 For Diarrhea
0 For Stress
I must thank my mother, father, and sister who assisted me in the hospital. Without them I would have been left in the hands of the nurses, and would not be able to write this today.
Friends, when a family member is sick, NEVER let them stay in a hospital alone sit there beside them and endure the boredom it's the only way they will get the help they need do not rely on the staff.
Thanks also to all who visited, sent flowers, stuffed animals, text messages, and thought of me during this duration.
Appendicitis and In-Patient survivor
Jonathon
A Note added from my sister
YOU FORGOT:*They had a an IV bag hanging with someone else's information stickered all over it.*The food people threw your food on a table far out of reach when you couldnt even lift your arm*The nurses had to ask YOU why you were there and what they needed to do half the time*One nurse said youd go home the next morning 5 minutes after the surgeon said a few more days!*They didnt check your bandages for almost 48 hrs I think? or was it 24*It took them 2 hours to get your damn applejuice lol*They never knew what meds to give you because they wouldn't COMMUNICATE
Posted by Carrie on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 6:50 AM
I went back to the hospital for another 7 Days because of an Abscess
(Latin: abscessus) is a collection of pus that has accumulated in a cavity formed by the tissue on the basis of an infectious process (usually caused by bacteria or parasites) or other foreign materials (e.g. splinters or bullet wounds). It is a defensive reaction of the tissue to prevent the spread of infectious materials to other parts of the body.
So I had another surgery this time it took longer because it wasn't an emergency it just looked like I had a grape fruit coming out of my groin. They loaded me up with pain Meds ran a cat scan and scheduled my surgery for the next morning.
This time was different they didn't sew me up after the 2 hour surgery, they stuck a drain tube in me and left my wound wide open and stuffed it with gauze. I was sore, they loaded me up on pain killers and my stay went on.
The wound this time has to heal from the inside out.
The next day the gauze had to be taken out while I was awake, my awesome surgeon and a very nice wound specialist lined up beside my bed and began pulling out an endless line of bloody pussy gauze while I screamed in agony from the pain, then they stuffed me again with more. I get to go through this every other day for the next two weeks still. Pass the drugs.
MEDICATION UPDATE
Medicine Prescribed through 15 day duration: 32 Medicines
4 Nausea Medications
8 Pain Killers
10 Antibiotics
1 For Cramps
1 For Diarrhea
2 Stool Softners
1 For Itching
3 For Sleep
1 For Sore Throat
1 Multivitamin
0 For Stress
Total COST of Hospital Stay
Bills are still coming in but average I put together is literally over $100,000 (Not including medication) THANK GOD FOR BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD!
It cost an average of $7000 a Night just for the room
$15,000 + in surgery and anesthesia
The Nutritionist…
For those of you who know me, I manage a fitness center and remain pretty health conscious. The hospital had a healthy menu of hamburgers, French fries, fried chicken, cakes and pies every day. After having you stomach ripped open the last thing you want is greesy crappy food especially if your health conscious. So I couldn't eat this food and the head nutritionist to the hospital was called. I asked her why there where no healthy foods on the menu and she explained people wanted comfort foods when they are sick. Oh, my, god these people are sick she is the nutritionist shouldn't she be keeping them healthy? I explained to her Id prefer fresh fruit, a wide variety of vegetables and whole grains, with no fried foods and no high fructose corn syrup I wanted to get better and eat healthy. So the next day for breakfast after my depiction of what I wanted to eat I was given no fruit, pancakes and sausage, syrup, coffee, and a non fat yogurt. Yeah, I ordered out for the duration of my stay for healthy food because it couldn't be found in the hospital, they never got one order right the whole time I was there;
At one point I requested Melon. They said they had none, I told the nutritionist mom had brought some up from the cafeteria the night before and this morning and she had gone to get more. The nutritionist ensured me there was no melon. I ate melon for days and she insisted the melon I was eating wasn't really there.
Punch me again…
One Nurse assistant would come in and take my blood pressure, Temp, oxygen level, every four hours. She ripped off my blood pressure device off my arm and her arm slapped against my open wound. She continued I informed her I had a gaping open wound there and she responded, oh a waaa….? Yeah real concerned and informed huh?
More Later Going to bed now…
TOTAL WEIGHT WHEN IT ALL BEGAN 165 LBS
TOTAL WEIGHT NOW 151 LBS
I lost about 15 lbs and I havent shit in a week so when I do it will probably be 20.
Added from My Sister
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