Stephanie R.
Yelp
I have had Long Haul Covid for 2.5 years and have been disabled. I've been a RN,BSN for 28 years. A unit tech told a 1 year Resident that I was doing JUMPING JACKS in my room at 4am at Memorial Hermann Downtown! I just thought if my L&D friends/colleagues could hear my accomplishments now!! I'm an Athlete! On to the Olympics soon I was admitted with Blood Pressures of 65/40 and heart rate in the 40's. Then I went on to a POTS episode and heart rate went from 60-70's to 120's just getting out of the bed. I nearly fell on my poor PT guy (he was very nice and Professional) . JUMPING JACKS!! Not even when I had a ton of whiskey, healthy and was 80 lbs lighter 2.5 years ago, have I been able to do JUMPING JACKS with these 51 year old knees! I don't exercise, more than when I was an active RN running around a unit, that's the extent. So....I got kicked out of a hospital that did nothing for almost 1 week!! I was told by several night RN's, that 6pm-7am the 1st year Residents will NOT order anything if needed and are too scared to call attendings! So, I had the nurse text the Attending Internist on-call every hour on the hour, that I needed my sleep medication I have taken for 2 years! If I was awake, he should be awake, since they dropped my medications without even discussing this with me during their "working hours" (thought Physicians were on for 24 hours?) I was ignored. Then I called the House Supe "Stephanie" about 3:30am, she said she'd call a "coordinator". NOTHING! In the 7 days I was admitted by the "Internist", I had only seen Dr Carrion ONCE (he was very RUDE ranting about "are you aware your Cardiologist who sent you here is now out of the country?!?!). Well... no.... I'm not his wife or receptionist! Then, today August 1st at approx 9:45am a new Attending Internist came in to my small room with about 6-7 young residents and 2 "coordinators or managers" to tell me they were kicking me out! WOW! PAINFUL! YOU WEREN'T DOING YOUR JOB ANYWAY, is what I thought! No Internist EVER reviewed my daily blood work with me that they had ordered every morning at 4am. Maybe if they did, they would have seen I had a blood glucose of FIFTY-FOUR as they were kicking a crying, exhausted, sick patient out the door and calling SECURITY!! My consult with Dr Orlander Endocrinology was fine. Consult with Rheumatologist Dr Hwoang was fine. The Internist Team D should ALL be FIRED and definitely NOT teaching young Residents! Continuing with my experience, alone (no family) when they came in to kick me out, with a room full of people trying to intimidate me (big show of force), not another person could have fit into this small room, I got upset and told the "Attending" and Residents to get out of my room
(don't remember his name started with a P I think and he had a speech impediment, he continued to yell at me and argue, he knew NOTHING ABOUT ME)!! I realized they were retaliating on me for being my own advocate and trying to get ahold of them through the night!! If discharge had been planned I would have known the day before. They said they notified some "Dr Xavier" (obviously not as loving as Professor Xavier) or maybe it was a Dr. Ceasar, I really wouldn't know, he never rounded on me either but he gave them the go ahead to throw me out, without even coming to look or listen to me! They called my consults who were going to come round on me and got them to be on board with kicking me out! I wanted a consult with Hematology... I was developing massive purple bruising all over my arms! They just said I could go follow up later with my PCP and they were "still" throwing me out on the curb and getting security to do it!! Exact words!! By this time it was FINE BY ME! So, I told the rest of them to get out of my room! I was a FALL RISK. But I was mad!! Although I was a FALL RISK, had pending lab test and was unstable (in all its forms), I had no choice but jump out of bed to gather my bags but then, as usual, I FELL on my knee/HEAD!! Oh, let's not forget that blood glucose of 54 that I, nor any other Professional noted, 2 days NO sleep, just adding a new medicine that has been known to mess with my sleep and irritability, Hydrocortisone and messing/discontinuing my sleep medications and refusing to come evaluate me through the night, instead they ordered MELATONIN 3MG!! Vindictive as hell! The laughing chatting employees outside my door did not hear me screaming and crying "HELP"!! THEN HAD THE NERVE TO SAY I "STAGED" IT and with all their talking and through a closed door (where they did not hear me yelling for HELP) they had the audacity to say, "we did not hear you fall!!" Are you kidding me?! WHAT?! I have busted my front teeth out with 5 fractures above the gum line, multiple oral surgeries, several concussions, bruises and my family in my bedroom have not "heard" me hit the ground in my bathroom!! I'm not thin anymore but I'm SURE NOT AN ELEPHANT! I don't need to "stage" a fall!