[nthomas08]

in reply to: Recently diagnosed with hyperthyroidism #1062249

Thank you, Ski for the invaluable information! I truly appreciate everything you’ve told me and I understand now that this isn’t a quick fix. Patience and trust in my healthcare provider will do me justice.

I am a week and 1 day in recovery from my surgery and it was quite the feat! The evening of my surgery I had a very uncomfortable night due to the lack of understanding from my care provider in the hospital! I found that nurses are not our friends!!! I hate saying that but, my experience was absolutely horrible the first night! I felt as if I was in a horror movie!

One knows ones body and to have someone tell you that their appears to be no swelling at my surgical site was dumbfounding! My incision site had swollen so badly that my bandage popped off! I was in tremendous pain and was told at 10pm that I could not receive any further pain meds until 2am!!! Which by the way, I was given regular vicodin pills and by the way did not touch my pain at all! She made me swallow pills!!! After surgery and didn’t even tell me that their was also an IV med she could have given me instead! I got up out of the bed at 1am crying (red, black and purple bruising, swelling on my neck) and went to search for the nurse manager (who couldn’t be found) to complain of my treatment by this nurse! No where to be found, once the nurse had seen me in the hallway (balling my eyes out) she made it a point to come into my room at 1:30am and tells me that it looks like she’ll be giving me pain medication an hour early and oh by the way she tells me (I found that their is another pain med on your chart for dilaudid via IV!!!!! Which I feel should’ve been done in the first place instead of making me choke down pills!

The next morning the surgeon arrives and see’s my neck and wants me to explain what happened! I tell him as best I could of her mistreatment! He then goes and grabs a tracheotomy kit and explains to me that he may need to perform this! SCARED OUT OF MY MIND! But, thank you heavenly father my oxygen levels were ok for him not to do so! I then had to have surgery again to reopen my wound to see why my neck had swollen so bad (2nd surgery)! He found a large hematoma and fluid! He was not at all happy because he was not called during the night of my swelling! My 2nd day in the hospital I had nurse managers and administrators coming in and out of my room requesting to know what happened! I’m just glad that I didn’t see that nurse again while I remained in the hospital until Thursday! I just can’t stop thinking about the horror of that night! I’d received exceptional care after that night and I thanked the nursing staff every chance I got for their compassion and quality of care! My one night stay turned into 4! Due to someone having a bad night, day and week!

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