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 | 	- Recently unemployed and uninsured I had the unfortunate circumstance of becoming ill when my appendix ruptured. As I sat in the waiting room, vomiting and crying out in pain, they took me into the dingy, dirty emergency room and say me in the hall way in a wheel chair (I was in extreme pain and vomiting my guts out. They just left me there. It just so happened that a doctor (Dr. Young) was walking by to see another patient when he spotted me. He immediately told them to take me to cat scan, may be it was the vomiting, my crying out and the pale white color I had turned that he became concerned with. Well, the cat scan showed that my appendix had burst, they ran with me to the operating room, atlas I was saved. My problem was with the hospital room they had me in (437-A) It was  filthy, I was hospitalized for a total of 5 days and not once did anyone from the housekeeping staff come in and sweep, or mop or even empty the trash. The bathroom, each time I used it I had to bring a wash cloth with me to clean off the seat (the crackhead in the next bed looked and talked shady and I wasn't taking any chances) the floor next to the floor boards in the bathroom had about an inch of black crusted dirt.....I am not kidding. When it was time for my discharge they asked me if I wanted to shower, I politely declined and told them I would shower at home (I had given myself sponge baths). My concern is, isn't infection rampant in hospitals? I can certainly see why! I hope I never have to return there for my own health. The experience was eye-opening, the crackhead next to me said that she would take my medicine if I didn't want it (she had heard me tell the nurse when I didn't want it) telling me just act like I took it, I was mortified. She ate my food if I was sleeping and constantly had her crackhead friends there, the nurse told me that she was in and out of the hospital on a weekly basis looking for pain medication. UMC did you fire your housekeeping staff? Because if I had gotten a staff infection I would have certainly sued!
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