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where we have real hospitals. On the way the chest pain went into jaw pain,, I couldn’t breathe and was getting delirious (no comment please Greg although I know you will make one anyway)yeah, I know Greg, why would a hospital believe me. Well, the reality is that it’s, well, real! I went to a nearby local hospital just outside Austin. I asked Lizzie to take me into Austin. I didn’t think it was a heart attack because asthma can cause similar symptoms. And I figured it was pleurisy (which it was) because that can cause the lungs to rub against the chest wall and cause heart attack like pain. Anyway, I could not get enough strength to even sit up on the back seat of the truck. The triage nurse kicked me and said “Well, we’re not going in there to get you”. I told him if I died here they would find a way to get me out. Lizzie helped me into a wheel chair and this guy took me in with my feet dragging on the ground. Right to the check in station. I collapse in the chair and was in and out of going to sleep from lack of seizure meds. Lizzie said I needed help NOW but the clerk said all the paper work had to be filled FIRST. That was it!. I was weak and breathless but I got up and told my wife to take me to (no names to be mentioned) … hospital in Austin. I couldn’t make it so she stopped at the next nearest one. (I do not like EMS. She got me in and they took me in the ER, they did an oxygen sat while another nurse set up an ECG and got oxygen and this nurse said “well your oxygen sat is 99 so you obviously do not have trouble breathing, you must be diabetic (which I am not). That was the end!. I sat up ribbed the ECG leads off, ripped the BP cuff off and other things and the other nurse tried to stop me. She almost went through the wall. Adrenaline was no flowing. They said “you can’t leave”. And of course I told them to try to stop me. I grabbed for my shirt, scared the s… out of everyone and ripped people’s hands off my body and got out of there. Poor Lizzie. I had her take me home. Yeah, Ii went home, to bed, took a lot of pain meds and fell asleep. Anyone who knows medicine at all knows that a person having even severe asthma can have normal oxygen sat which is why you don;t give oxygen to them unless it is so serious that there is no choice. Oh yeah, this one nurse at hospital #2 told me “this is why you are supposed to call 911”. I told him there is no statute that requires that. I am have not yet finished with these two animal farms. OK, yes, I am stubborn and I can be pushed over the edge easily enough in cases like this, but I studied enough medicine to know that no one should be treated that way. The local beer joint would be my next choice. It was interesting to say the least.
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Inhumane, my friend. Do not take it lying down — or standing up, or any which way. No one should be treated in such a disgraceful, demeaning, miserable fashion. My blood is boiling just reading it!
OMG! My son just was in a crap hospital , but yours tops his! It’s like some bad movie. Wish I could have been there to call the cops or paramedics right from the fron of the hospital!
Hope you recover from that and get to see a doctor. You have some great ones you’ve written about. Go to them please, ok?
GRRRRRRRRRRR, my poor son might need surgery because they screwed up with him.
Idiots!!OMG!! You have been through the wringer and to hell and back! Where did those idiots get their medical “training”? I thought that I had had bad experiences!! This takes the cake! They obviously don’t listen to what a patient tells them. Your health issues are very complex. The very least they could have done is hear you out so they could figure out the best way to help you. Hang in there. Keep on trying to get the right doc. We want you better OK? Maybe there are better docs on Neergog.
do they have a school of nasty training for your hospitals down there? wheres that texas charm stuff? geeesh.
Wow! I can not believe what you have just gone through! The illness part was bad enough, but the horrible treatment in the hospital is unbelieveable. Thank goodness you are strong enough to get through it all. Rest & get better…. things were not the same around here without your wit & humour.
They say everything is bigger in Texas but I didn’t think they meant jerks too! Sorry you had to endure all that on top of being sick. Hopefully all the hugs from the Bladder Cancer Canada gang will help offset the awful experience. Feel better soon Kiowa.
Mike and Monique
Kiowa just wanted to wish you Merry Christmas and I hope your health continues to get better. You’ll be in my prayers.
FloYeah, this whole thing is so absurd. Of course I am stubborn and refuse to be treated like an idiot so it does’ t take much for me to walk out of a place where I am treated this way. But, honestly, I think it’s my long hair. Being native Indian that pretty much ran in my family and I have no plans to cut it. I really think it’s a discrimination thing. In any event it is highly unusual because I live near the best of the best hospitals but just outside of Austin so I went to the two closest ones. Next time, I’ll go right into Austin. My GP who is a good friend is on this. His wife is a physician and she is the director of the ER at one of the hospitals. Of course I didn;t tell them I was also of doctor. But that had nothing to do with it anyway.
I do thank everyone for thinking of me. I knew my friends would stand by me. Sorry I scared Jeane out of her mind and made Greg pee in his pants, but he’s done that before anyway.
Things are better, just behind in everything.
Maybe if this happens again I’ll just make believe I’m unconscious. I really want to assure everyone that tis really was unusual for anywhere in Texas and it is very disappointing. I know, I know, the Texas Ego Syndrome!. Well, we do have bigger jerks! Scary. And you should see the size of our golf balls!!!!!
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