Was BACK in E.R. last night..

[Jenn]

Run it, I've been thinking about you ALOT these past few days, bless your heart, I hope YOU are feeling better. Yes percocet and nice soak in the tub and a nap has worked wonders!!

And as for the comment about my healing I like my skin and myself just the way I am thank you I don't need anything to toughen up

I ALSO agree with the having a advocate with you when you go to the hospital. DH would have gone had we had someone to watch the little one.
He had a disc that ruptured in his back a few years ago and had major back surgery. The care he received was HORRIBLE, had I not been there to constantly stay on the nurses there's not telling how he would have ended up. Several nurses lost their jobs after my letter and family letters of his care. Our health system today is AWFUL, it's sad but true.

[mimitabby]

my friend the EX-ER doc was expected to take care of 12 patients at a time!!
(that's why he quit!) he said it wasn't fair to anyone! how could you be confident about your care working a LONG shift into the night with 12 people at a time needing you????

it's all about cutting costs... the wrong way.

[Kano]

Jenn, I've had a lucky nearly fifty years, I guess, not having dealt with the kind of pain you're going through, but I've watched family members, and understand some what you're talking about when it comes to the meds -- the spacey feeling is icky, but it helps you get through the most painful part and sleep -- which is pretty essential to the healing process!

So, use the meds, even though you don't like them, for a couple of days, rest as much as possible, and then kind of wean yourself off them, still keeping the pain managed -- advil or something in their place, with the pain pills at bed time. I'm told it's easier to deal with the pain by taking the meds before you have to play "catch up" with it -- don't wait til you're at 8 to deal with it! (especially if you have to keep up with your munchkin!)

Karen in Boise

[KnottedYet]

my friend the EX-ER doc was expected to take care of 12 patients at a time!!
(that's why he quit!) he said it wasn't fair to anyone! how could you be confident about your care working a LONG shift into the night with 12 people at a time needing you????

it's all about cutting costs... the wrong way.

Jeez, and I feel like I'm losing it when I only have 5 or 6 patients at a time!! (and it's not even life-or-death!)

[Duck on Wheels]

... The care he received was HORRIBLE, had I not been there to constantly stay on the nurses there's not telling how he would have ended up. Several nurses lost their jobs after my letter and family letters of his care. Our health system today is AWFUL, it's sad but true.

And here the annual national meeting of the ultra-right-wing "Progress Party" has been on the news lately, with their new chairwoman bleeting on and on about how much better service we'll get if they have their way and privatize national and municipal health services. Right. Not. Things can be slow here, and bureaucratically rigid at tims, but I have yet to experience rude or careless. Of course, that may be because we're simply a smaller country. You don't just hear of complaints via your nurse manager -- you'd hear them via your neighbor, and your cousin's brother-in-law, and your old school teacher, and your former scouts den-mate, and so on and so on. And too, you're likely to be treating your neighbor, and your cousin's brother-in-law, and and and.

But enough ranting away from the topic. How're you feeling? Is the swelling and redness getting any better? And have you written that story for the local paper yet? Or called a journalist there to write one? Two things would make good news now: Jenn's all better; and, the driver got his come uppance.