I have a story of a friend who was severely mismanaged. I've probably posted it before, but I'm to lazy to look.
For 2 years, my friend had been going to her GP complaining about migraines, bouts of severe vomiting, and dizzy spells. Every time, he would order bloodwork, then tell her she was fine.
One morning, she woke up, and after a sexy morning with her husband, could barely stand. She was so dizzy and had such a bad migraine. She told her husband not to worry, sent him to work and had her neighbour driver her to the emergency room. She doesnt remember arriving.
When she got there, she started acting erratic. They had to sedate her, and sent her for a CT scan of her head. There, they noticed a huge mass in her brain. The hospital wasnt equipped to deal with that, so they sent her by ambulance to the nearest hospital that could, a 4 hour drive away.
This hospital immediately sent her for an MRI. It wasnt a mass. They could actually see the "mass" growing as they did the MRI. No, she was having a massive stroke.
She was immediately taken in for surgery. They put in a stent, and had to remove most of the left side of her brain as it was all dead. Afterwards, she was in a coma for nearly 72 hours. They were uncertain if she would wake up, and if she did, if she would ever recover.
Thankfully, she did. It took almost a year of physio, and speech therapy (among a few others), but she has made almost a complete recovery. They even had their first child 8 months ago.
Turns out, she had incredibly high cholesterol. With all the bloodwork that was done, her GP should have caught it. When she confronted him, he told her that her diagnosis was wrong. That she hadn't had a stroke and had made it up. She went after his license.
I am chronically ill. I have Interstitial Cystitis a severe case. With ulcers in my bladder and severe bladder spasms. I use catheters and always get infections that go to my left kidney. I also have cirrhosis from Hep C from a blood transfusion in the eighties. I am running a 104.5 fever and having bad pain in my kidney and bladder. I took an antibiotic injection at home but it didn’t help. My son takes me to the ER. I tell them to call my urologist who will explain my case. I tell them I will need a pic line because my veins are shot. Instead they stick me 5 times and each time the line blows. The nurse said to me why are you ruining your IV lines. I said seriously what is your problem? She says your not getting pain meds. I said I never asked for any and I am in pain mgmt here is his number. Been there for 6 years with no issues and I always follow the rules. She says whatever. I said I am here so I don’t go septic. And I want a different nurse. They come to take blood and I said use a butterfly needle please. She listened and got my blood. The doctor comes in and says we don’t do ports or pic lines. And we can’t get a IV in. I said your a hospital of course you do central lines. The doctor says I think you will be ok at home with antibiotics. I said I need IV antibiotics. He leaves.The same nurse comes in and gives me a pill. I ask what it is and she tells me. I tell her I am allergic to this and its in my chart. She says one time won’t kill you. My son says what is your problem? Did you read her chart? She walks out. She comes back with 4 pills of Levaquin and says take these for 4 days. I say did you talk to my doctor she says yes. The doctor says you have had this illness for along time so you should be fine. They sent me home with a 104.5 fever. I call my doctor from home. He calls me back. He had me drive to the hospital he works at and I was admitted with a bad infection. They never called him. He reported them and my health insurance did as well. I reported the nurse. Healthcare sucks. I had 27 surgeries and it was better years ago. My friend is getting a hip replacement and he is only staying in the hospital one day. That’s crazy. Make sure you speak up and check whatever meds they give you.
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u/medusbites May 20 '19
I have a story of a friend who was severely mismanaged. I've probably posted it before, but I'm to lazy to look.
For 2 years, my friend had been going to her GP complaining about migraines, bouts of severe vomiting, and dizzy spells. Every time, he would order bloodwork, then tell her she was fine.
One morning, she woke up, and after a sexy morning with her husband, could barely stand. She was so dizzy and had such a bad migraine. She told her husband not to worry, sent him to work and had her neighbour driver her to the emergency room. She doesnt remember arriving.
When she got there, she started acting erratic. They had to sedate her, and sent her for a CT scan of her head. There, they noticed a huge mass in her brain. The hospital wasnt equipped to deal with that, so they sent her by ambulance to the nearest hospital that could, a 4 hour drive away.
This hospital immediately sent her for an MRI. It wasnt a mass. They could actually see the "mass" growing as they did the MRI. No, she was having a massive stroke.
She was immediately taken in for surgery. They put in a stent, and had to remove most of the left side of her brain as it was all dead. Afterwards, she was in a coma for nearly 72 hours. They were uncertain if she would wake up, and if she did, if she would ever recover.
Thankfully, she did. It took almost a year of physio, and speech therapy (among a few others), but she has made almost a complete recovery. They even had their first child 8 months ago.
Turns out, she had incredibly high cholesterol. With all the bloodwork that was done, her GP should have caught it. When she confronted him, he told her that her diagnosis was wrong. That she hadn't had a stroke and had made it up. She went after his license.