I was there for a replacement of my implanted medical pain pump. The place is HUGE, little hard to find the outpatient surgery center because there is SO MUCH PARKING. If you have been to any other hospital this is NEVER the case. Usually you are stuck in a garage. This place is like a mall parking lot! The place is beautiful, clean and modern. I wanted to take a special note, the volunteers were EXCELLENT. I have been to almost every hospital in this area and only the Mayo Clinic had the same quality of volunteers. Check in was a nice big area. Pre-op waiting was nice too. Everything was going fine really. Surgery was done and I wake up in a LOT of pain. This always happens. I am so used to pain meds it takes a TON to get my pain under control and it is just part of my life and I deal with it.
Here is what made me mad, pissed my mild mannered (nurse) wife off and why I WOULD NEVER GO BACK OR SUGGEST ANYONE ELSE EITHER. As I woke up with a hot knife in my back I got to listen to a 10 minute speech from the post op nurse on the evils of Oxicodone. I take it as part of my pain control. I agree there are some major issues and things are going to need to be worked on. I also believe every person has the right to their own opinion and if that is how she feels, well fine, her right. What I DID NOT NEED was a lecture from her about how the drug should be wiped off the Earth and it is evil and people who use is are idiots blah blah blah. Imagine you are having a baby. As you push and pant and push and pant the nurse tells you she does not believe in natural child birth. Or you are having ANY surgery and the nurse goes on for 10 minutes about her hard core no bending beliefs. When all you want is for her to SHUT UP and help get you out of the pain. When you are stuck in those horrid pain episodes like post surgery THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO LECTURE A PATIENT ON THEIR CARE THAT THEIR DOCTOR DECIDED ON WITH LOTS OF TIME, THOUGHT AND MEDICAL EXPERTISE. I respect nurses (married to one). But your opinion is only needed when ASKED for and when appropriate. This was not that time. I feel sorry for the next person who gets her tongue lashing.