[Loch-Ruadh] The rest of the story...
Julie Self
julie_self at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 5 12:53:26 PDT 2005
Now folks, get a really GOOD picture of this line-up in your minds: DANA
AINGEAL
POOKIE
Now, isn't that SCARY? Wish I had been there!
Gwen
Loch Ruadh Rocks!!
>From: "Dana" <sca004 at sbcglobal.net>
>Reply-To: "Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA,Inc."
><loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
>To: <loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: [Loch-Ruadh] The rest of the story...
>Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 19:50:21 -0500
>
>Now that I have had a real good nights sleep I would like to thank my
>family and friends. Only a very small circle of people knew I was going to
>the emergency room Wednesday night. And I "thought" I was only going to be
>there a couple of hours!!!
>
>As most of you know Pookie, my daughter-in-law, works at the hospital as an
>emergency room nurse. She paved the way for me by getting a room ready and
>did not take me down the "stinky" hall. She had the best people lined up to
>check me out. Got my blood taken and then went and got me some food since I
>hadn't eaten since o'clock that afternoon. I was starving....especially
>since I had just left a meeting where everyone was eating grilled hot dogs,
>beans and potato chips!!
>
>The emergency room was busy Wednesday night but Pookie made sure I was well
>taken care of EKG's, X rays and blood tests were all done in a timely
>manner. And all the people that took care of me, the doctor, technicians
>and nurses were all very good to me. The only time I cried was when they
>told me I wasn't going home that night because I needed more tests and
>something with the EKG
>
>I was moved upstairs to the 5th floor to a private room (again thanks to
>Pookie) at 4 AM. Pookie even checked out the nurses before I was moved.
>They slapped on a heart monitor, drew blood and then let me sleep from 4:30
>to 6 AM. Then they started taking blood every 2 hours and sometimes as
>often as 3 times in 30 minutes!! Pookie came up to see me at 7 when she got
>off. Most of Thursday is a blur because I was so tired and just wanted to
>sleep. A doctor came in to see me in the afternoon and talked about a
>stress test I would need before getting to go home. I agreed if it could be
>done first thing in the morning.
>
>Friday morning I am wheeled out of my room at 6:45 (missed seeing Pookie)
>for a test that should take about 2 hours. Now I haven't had anything to
>eat or drink since about 8:30 PM Thursday. Remember this is morning, NO
>COFFEE, haven't had a cigarette since Wednesday evening, not a good thing
>as far as I'm concerned. They do what they have to do...inject me with
>something, take some pictures and then we wait for the doctor to show up
>and we wait and wait and wait, 2 hours later this doctor shows up and says
>I was dumped in her lap and spends the entire "6 whole minutes" that she
>had to be there for this test on the phone with her office. Now Dana STILL
>HASN'T HAD COFFEE!! The people in the Nuclear Med Lab were fantastic. I can
>have coffee and breakfast now and they get it for me ASAP. I have to eat
>and drink and wait 30 minutes so they can take more pictures. Guess what???
>The damn machine mal functions not once or twice but three times before
>they get the pictures they need. So I don't get back to my room until after
>1 o'clock. Around 2 this doctor shows up again complaining about me being
>dumped in her lap and TELLS me her associate WILL be doing an angiogram on
>me later that evening!! And we will go from there as to a course of
>treatment that could range from meds to open heart surgery!! Scares the
>living S#&T out of me and I already do not like this doctor. I tell
>Aingeal, who was sitting there, I'm checking out and going home!! That's my
>right and I'm exercising it!! She tells me she will be back, just hang
>tight, yea like what else can I do. I guess she calls Pookie and gets her
>out of bed and tells her what has happened up to this point. The next thing
>I hear is Pookie calling me and telling me to go out to the nurses station
>and tell them "You are not seeing or talking to ANYONE other than a doctor
>named Mundalaru." Ok, done (in tears) so now the nurse knows I am REALLY
>upset. Aingeal gets back and says Pookie pulled some big strings and has
>another doctor coming to see me. The same doctor that Caerell is going to
>see. Then a really nice man comes in to talk to us because the nurse calls
>downstairs and tells someone I am really upset. Long story short this
>doctor works with Dr. Mundalaru. He tells me all about this procedure and
>listens to my medical history and gets me some meds to calm my nerves and
>before I know it they are wheeling me down the hall. The rest of my story
>is a real big blur. I know I asked Tom to go home and take care of the
>animals, I think Aingeal is still there. When I wake up in my room I
>remember Rob and Pookie being there and asking me how I felt. Well, I was
>feeling NOOOO PAIN.
>
>So the moral of my story is... "If you're gonna get sick and need to go to
>the hospital be sure you have a family member that works there." I was NOT
>just another patient, I received very special care because Pookie works
>there (and I think they are afraid of her!!)
>
>I would like to also thank everyone that came to visit me (that very small
>circle that knew where I was!!), called me, prayed for me (and God only
>knows how much I needed those) and sent well wishes on the list. Although I
>still have very little energy I am feeling much, much better.
>
>Dana
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