hi, I want to share my experience in the last few days at my local hospital . I been experiencing diarheea and flu like symptoms , well the first er I go to they tell me its a virus probably ,no test just quesses ,They send me home with a prescription for bentyl and a brat diet . I couldnt believe it so 8 hours later i go to the next er at 12 am, 30 minutes away.The er here was excellent , ran all kinds of test cat scans, dye , blood urine , still no diagnosis so they admit me . well everything is fine , im getting nubain for my pain and thery start me on cipro , just in case of bacteria .blood sapmles show and urine hint that way , they collect stool to do culture , Well i get this nurse on /day 1 1/2 /in this hospital and i get a cold feeling from her . I ring for pain medicine and she like takes 45 minutes to come ,I didnt want to keep keep pressing light to look demanding or not patient but after that i became more persistant. They make you feel like ya a bad person when you ask for medicine especially pain medicine and believe me i was in pain./day 2 1/2/ my doctor tell me theres preliminary showing you might have a bacterial infection and you been on cipro and iv so thats good , no surgery it seems. well this nurse shows up again and i go to smoke a cigarette , she seem not to like that either but im a grown man so . I come back upstairs and ask her when shes got time can i get some medicine , im cramping real bad , shes like ok , well 20 minutes later she not there so i press the light. Well i find out she goes to meeting and that did it for me so i call customer relations and tell them situation , they say they will see into it. well 20 minutes later i hear my doctor being page ,which sounds fishy to me afteri just complain on a nurse . well my doctor shows up ,out of nowhere few hours later , I had my pain medicine by then , hes like well you got salmonella , since you wont be needing surgery we can get you discharged .Im like well you told me tomorrow or later ,this has nothing to do with me complaining to the nurse which I knew it did. IM like well im not ready to leave , I just find out I got salmonella , now i get discharged . So i decide maybe its best to leave , well my nurse come with the dc papers with this smirk on her face , at that time i wanted to smack off of her but decided to go peacefully . Well I get home which was like 2 pm in the south its hot believe me with salmonella and cipro, isnt too thoughtful of that hospital. I talk to my uncle when i get home and im like I dont under stand why i was being treated so horribly by this nurse . I go to bed and get some sleep. I wake up and her face just flashes in my mind and all of a sudden Im like I know that face , but im trying to decide if its just short term memory from the hospital and medication and it seems like I know this nurse. I lay down and try to forget and then bammm it hits me , I do know this woman , I couldnt believe it but she was the secretary for the chiropractor i was seeing 2 yr ago at that time when i had my car accident.

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well i wasnt finish typing the rest and the details were too much , but if you seen ,this woman was the secretary of my chiropractor and she already developed her perception of me and probably every person that went to that chiropractor . I didnt realize this until i gotten home and I know why my medicine was running late , because she thought i was some pain junkie which chiropractors dont prescribe pain medicine and I dint chose to be in a er with salmonella , and theres no doubt in my mind she remembered me and every action she pulled at that hospital was deliberate but i was hazed by the cipro and iv , dehydration , pain , and dint realized I new this woman .I was profiled by this nurse , Im sorry I didnt find out until i was already home but I will be filing my complaint with the nurses board of mississippi , She was descriminating against me , all the other nurses didnt question my pain , i had salmonella , if you get it you will know what pain is , oh and you know why she left out salmonella until I told her because she figured I wanted more pain meds from another doctor , r/o apendisitis means theres nothing wrong with me ,cant you see how hateful or judgemental this woman was , I wanted salmonella becuase thats what I had , I didnt want this to happen at all and another thing my diagnosis wasnt known until 2 hours before discharge so I bet she thought i was faking the whole damn thing .

[This message has been edited by tommyboy23 (edited 05-08-2003).]