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I didn’t feel safe, heard, or even treated like a human being the entire stay
I’ve never felt so overlooked in a hospital before. I understand I’m not the only patient and I expected some wait time, but this was beyond anything reasonable. On my first night I called for help at 4 a.m. for the bathroom and pain meds, and the nurse didn’t show up until 5. Nobody checked on me about the pain, I wasn’t given antibiotics even when I asked, and no doctor saw me until the second day. I kept asking about X-rays and was told they’d been ordered, but the nurses said they weren’t. I waited over an hour just to get unhooked from my IV so I could use the restroom, and every call button took forever to get a response. One of the night nurses didn’t even know how to work the IV machine. I had to set timers just to see how long it took someone to come back because the care was so slow. The communication was awful from every direction. No one asked about my allergies before serving meals and was served a meal with what I was allergic to. My “high potassium” diet was freezer-burned bananas and cold, salty french fries. A phlebotomist tried to brush me off like I wouldn’t understand my own labs, and I was stuck with needles at least ten times because nobody put in a proper line. The IV in my arm was leaking from day one and no one listened until day three when the fluids were literally pouring out. There was even a roach in my bathroom—my boyfriend had to kill it because staff just shrugged. When I finally asked for a supervisor so I could leave, the nurse disappeared and came back saying she forgot, and the supervisor dodged every question about leaving AMA. By the time the doctor said he’d “call later,” I was done.
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