My leukemia's back.

[jgoldy2]

Rachel Good luck I hope you are well soon

 

[seminolewind]

I know exactly what you mean. I keep telling my visiting nurse clients that they need to speak up when they need something . They need to be accountable . They need to do their job . Sometimes it's just plain short staffing. The game hospitals play.

 

[donrae]

Got some more of my lovely B Positive donor's platelets last night. Got a good bump, from 12 up to 36. I'm thankful for all my platelet donors but feel a special connection to this particular person. I hope they know how grateful I am for their ongoing gift.

 

[Suzie]

Rachel...

That is great news!

I am sure your donor feels good about the fact that they are contributing to the well being of recipients...

Thank goodness for these wonderful people who give!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Got some more of my lovely B Positive donor's platelets last night. Got a good bump, from 12 up to 36. I'm thankful for all my platelet donors but feel a special connection to this particular person. I hope they know how grateful I am for their ongoing gift.

So many {hugs} for you and your donors, especially lovely B Positive.

 

[3goodeggs]

Have they sprung you yet?

Go Home, ET!
I'll ship you a bike.

I hope you are feeling better and getting better care still.
One hopes that empathy is prolific in hospitals, but maybe they have to steal it out of themselves.

 

[sourland]

Have they sprung you yet?

Go Home, ET!
I'll ship you a bike.

I hope you are feeling better and getting better care still.
One hopes that empathy is prolific in hospitals, but maybe they have to steal it out of themselves.

From me too.

 

[donrae]

Nope, still here with no end in sight. My labs were pretty inconsistent yesterday, the doc thinks its cause they're drawing from my central line so I don't have to get poked all the time. So, I reluctantly agreed to let them stick me this morning. I have a huge bruise and tape burn, only to find out the blanking tech only drew the electrolyte panel, not the CBC. Seriously?!? Well, I'm not getting stuck again....they blew that chance...so CBC drawn from the central line. Waiting for results still. Not one of my finer moments after the poor nurse told me the CBC wasn't done, I'm embarrassed to admit my inner sailor made a brief appearance. I did not, however, throw anything....it was close but that's a line I'm afraid to cross.

I'm seriously considering asking the doc what the consequences would be if I left against advice.....so not in my nature but I've just been captive too long.

 

[3goodeggs]

I am glad to know you have an inner sailor too.

I have learned that you need to ask them, 'What are you doing and to whom are you supposed to be doing it to?'
And I won't let them touch me if they don't get it right.


Sorry they buggered it up.

 

[Blooie]

When I was in the hospital for 10 days with gangrene, I was getting 3 different antibiotics IV on a rotating basis - a bag of one type would empty and the next bag of the second kind would replace it, followed by the 3rd, then back to the first and so on. This went on the entire time I was there, 24/7.

So one night a night nurse I hadn't seen before came in to change the Gentamicin (and I'm sure I butchered that spelling!) for Levaquin. I held up my arm for her just like every one of the other nurses had always asked me to do. She smiled as she unhooked the first antibiotic and said, "Oh, deary, I don't need that arm. I'm just going to replace this one and it'll go straight into your IV on this side."

That really made me angry! I was crabby enough by then anyway - I'd already hung my doctor in effigy on my hospital room door the day before. (That's another long story!)

I snapped back, "No, you're not putting that into my IV....not until you've looked at the hospital ID band on my arm and compared it to the bag in your hand and your orders." She was the first (and the only) nurse who'd come in and tried to do something without double checking that minor little detail of making sure the right person was getting the right medication. It never happened again,either!

You know, most us of try to be good patients, but there just comes a time when we have to say, "Look, I have a problem with what you're doing and I want to see someone else."