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| - I was just in the E.R. yesterday and was treated like complete trash. I was left alone, sitting in a wheelchair in extreme abdominal pain. I started yelling for help and tossed my empty barf-bag towards a wall and low towards the floor, hoping someone would notice and might come help me. I wasn't sure what was going on around me because I was doubled over in pain. I just wanted help - I was extremely restless from pain and desperately ill.
Unfortunately, then I threw up hard, there was nothing in my stomach but I was heaving anyway. A "nurse" showed up. I was in a wheelchair,she bent over to yell in my face that "we" don't need to throw up on the floor in here" and "we don't throw up on the floor" {repetitive}. She was hyper-angry, very mean and right in my face. Like she hated me. Just vicious,{blonde hair, around 40 or so}. Yes, throwing up on a floor is hardly my idea of perfection,either. She was trying to humiliate. The T.V. commercials about "Dignity Health" are laughable - it's NOTHING like the way they really treat people.
I managed to ask the nurse who she thought she was speaking to like that. Then the guy who did the admitting starting badgering me because I spoke up for myself. He was a tall,young man, didn't get his name, I was too sick. And that the "nurse" shoved another throw up bag at me but both were being so nasty to me that I threw the bag on the floor because I was so upset by them. I was so ill I thought I was dying, they were acting like I was trash.
Then the pompous admitting guy called security on me, claiming I'd thrown the bag at the nurse, which was a complete lie. I was there alone too. Imagine being in that nightmare situation. I was in a wheelchair and bent over in extreme pain. But because I asked who they thought they were speaking to like that, this guy actually called security. Then he said he'd "write it down in my files" that I had thrown the bag AT the "nurse" and so on. Up to then I was going to try not to bother a relative of mine who was at work, but at that point I called them to literally come rescue me.
Neither the "nurse" nor the guy who did the admitting knew what was wrong with me of course, and I could have been dying for all they knew.
Then 2 security officers came and stood nearby me. I'm about 5 feet 6 inches tall, female, incapacitated and sitting in a wheelchair, crying. I had no one to help me with the situation until my relative got there. I was already hysterical from pain, then with the hostile behavior I felt like I wasn't going to be helped at all. It was true, I wasn't getting any help.
I asked them if they'd really never seen anyone vomit on the floor in the ER before. . At the complete end of my rope, I finally told the admitting guy I'd never been treated so badly in my life and that he was a Nazi. He thought it was funny and laughed at me. LAUGHED AT ME.
Still crying in pain, I got a quick look-over by a doctor who suddenly appeared, he was at least not hostile but then he left and I never saw him again. He made a comment that let me know he'd overheard or seen the situation, yet nothing was done on my behalf.
They moved me down a hallway. I was still yelling in pain. So they just moved me away. My relative was on the way still, I was alone. They left me there even though I sounded like I was dying and had no diagnoses yet -- then I lost my bowels, right in the wheelchair. I was in the ER { I later found out } because antibiotics had messed up my health and at first I could not "go to the bathroom" which caused the pain...then later when they left me sitting in the hall the illness caused me to suddenly loose control.
I'd been at the hospital at least a half hour by then,in extreme pain, begging for help,neglected. I had to grab a nurse as she went past me, I told her what happened and she pushed my chair to the bathroom. Afterward, I couldn't put my soiled clothes back on, so I had to stand inside the bathroom door until I could stop another person going by and asked them for a hospital gown.
After that I was moved FURTHER AWAY. My relative somehow found me.When they came to put me in a room I was told I "shouldn't have been" where they found me. Where I'd been PUT.
I managed to tell a few other employees at the hospital about this abuse. The female doctor who finally saw me was very condescending about it.
Whether anything gets done about this,who knows.Scary that they are willing to openly humiliate people who are helpless and are so sick-minded they'll call "security" on you if you stick up for yourself when a violent nurse screams in your face, and will leave you sitting alone in a hallway when you could be dying. I was the only one back there making that much noise but they ignored me. I've never been in so much pain before. I've never made that much noise before. It was humiliating to be left in that condition for so long.
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