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| - Should be St. Rose "Duh" Lima.
I was born in this hospital but I will never go back. The ER was the worse I have ever experienced. I raised 4 kids did many ER visits and this was the first time I had ever needed to go. I had a colonoscopy there on Monday, the next day I started bleeding non stop. I ended up in the ER because I was beginning to lose consciousness. Failure #1, I went to the triage desk and told the nurse my Dr. sent me here because I was bleeding and was about to pass out. She gave me papers to fill out and sent me to the lobby. I couldn't even sit up or I would get dizzy. When my wife completed the paper work she called us back to her cubby hole and tried to get a blood pressure, she couldn't. I told her 3 different times I was going to pass out and her response was "Let's get your temperature". At that point I passed out and passed blood all over the floor. Thank god my wife was there to catch me or I might have had a head injury to go with my bleeding. When I started to come to I was on a gurney in a ER stall. I could hear people talking. The Dr. was asking for a blood pressure but they couldn't get one. I knew I was alive because I could see the EKG monitor and I had a heart beat. They started 2 I.V's, one in each arm which made me freezing cold. When they did finally get a blood pressure it was 58/44. I saw the nurse one more time after that.
Failure #2. A little while later the Dr. came back in, and this was the last time I saw him, and said I had a vasovagal reaction from seeing my own blood. What Dominican Republic Med School did he go to. My Hemoglobin went from 15.9 and dropped to 9.2. A drop of 40%. Maybe, just maybe that might be the issue of passing out.
Failure #3. The gastroenterologist came by and ordered me to have a CT of the Abdomen and 2 fleets enemas to clean me out so he could see where I was bleeding from, while we waited for the colonoscopy team to come in. The hour or so we waited for them to come in, nothing was done. When my Dr. asked if they did the enemas, I told him no. In disgust, he said to the team, "this is going to be messy". They asked me to roll on my side and I asked if I should take my shorts off, which I had been laying in for the past 2 1/2 hours covered in blood. The nurse just shook her head.
Failure #4. I was admitted for 3 days until my blood pressure would come back up. With an I.V. in each arm they kept me on fluids. They only used the left arm to put the fluids in. Never flushed the right I.V. the entire time I was there. When it was time to go home, they removed both I.V.'s. This is where the failure comes in. 2 days later my arm was hurting and the vein was huge and tender. A clot had formed in the right arm where the I.V. was. I was instructed to take aspirin and apply heat to the area and it should go away. Well, it never did and now the vein which was as large as a pencil is now a shriveled up hard vein the size of a pencil lead and useless.
These were just the main blunders of the hospital, I guess I should be thankful I made it out alive. But as you can see I won't make the mistake of going back to St. Rose "Duh" Lima anytime soon. I will take my chances of the 20 minute drive to Las Vegas to receive any care.
To be honest, the nurses on the floor were very friendly. The place was clean and although I was only given clear liquids on the last day I was there, ice chips only before that, broth never tasted so good.
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