Yes, believe it. I'm VENTING! And I'm steaming hot farking livid.
Some of you know that Chuckles (my husband) 'hurt' his toe Sunday at my sil's house. The booboo broke & nearly severed his big toe, 24+ stitches and the broken bone was through the skin. We went to the hospital, had him treated, stitched (they had to cut part of his toe out to sew it up) did an iv antibiotic there, follow up visit on Thursday ... blah blah blah. He has been on antibiotics since Sunday. I've cleaned, medicated and changed (BLEAGH) his dressing twice a day for 4 days.
1pm doctor appointment today w/ the plastic surgeon that stitched him up. I medicated and changed his dressing at 10am. Toe looked a little 'tender,' seemed a little more swollen for day 4. Got to the doctor, his toe front & back, and about 1" onto his foot was bright red. Dr. pulls out 3 stitches, opens up the wound and swabs it to have a culture done. (Chuck swears he used a 4'x4' with a diaper on the end of it to cram up in there). Dr. says he's admitting him for iv antibiotics, may have to open up the wound. This was 1:15. Now we're in Belleville, 2 hospitals there (about 20 minutes from my house)--not by choice, because that was the closest ER Sunday night and we had the follow up visit today. Office calls St. Elizabeth (lesser of 2 evils) for a direct admit, 45 minutes later they still haven't called back . This is about 2pm. Dr. says I want him in now, try Memorial. They just put a very light gauze dressing on him to get him to the hospital. I tell the nurse in admitting, we need to get this dressing off, it's dry and it is going to stick to the wound when the bleeding stops. At 3:30 still nothing. At 4:30 they get him in a room finally. Still no new bandage. I "politely" (I WAS polite at first) asked the nurse to do this. At 5pm Dr. Sal comes in, orders a dressing change. At SEVEN PM - STILL NO DRESSING CHANGE AND NO IV. At 7 the infectious doctor comes in, orders the iv. The nurse comes in, I said, "CHANGE THE DRESSING, it's dried and stuck to his wound. She said it was 'shift change' but she'd remind his new nurse to do it. At 8pm - - NO F*CKING DRESSING. I went down the hall, grabbed a nurse, drug her to Chuck's room. I said, see this? It's 24+ stitches. It was supposed to be re-dressed 6 hours ago. It's dried to the wound. Either change it now or I am. She starts to PULL off the gauze, I grabbed her arm and said, go get some saline and soak this off. So FINALLY, she comes back at 8:40, and by 9pm he has a new bandage. At 9:15 when I left he STILL didn't have his IV.
I HATE Belleville hospitals. I have said for YEARS that if I get hurt or have a heart attack in B'ville, just dump me on the side of the road and let me die. DO NOT take me to either of the hospitals and let them kill me. It's been a standing joke for 25 years with me. But I'm dead (no pun intended) serious.
And if ANYONE EVER says ONE thing to me about underpaid and overworked nurses, I am going to clock them. Three times during each shift I walked past the nurses' station and there's 5-6 or 7 of them sitting on their *sses jacking their jaws.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Yes I'm farking pissed.
He's going to be in at least until Sunday. He thinks he's leaving at noon to go to his mom's 87th party on Sunday. They said he'd still be in. Will take 24 hours to get the initial results on the culture, 48 for a final reading. I'll be surprised if he's home Sunday unless I drag his ass out of there tomorrow and take him to a real hospital. Sarah's worried it's a staph infection, because the cellulitis is most often a result of strep or staph bacteria. I'm concerned she's right. To complicate things, "Stubby" is allergic to tetanus AND penicillin.
I'm a very easy going person unless you mess with my family or friends. There's no excuse for incompetence or worse, laziness. I'm not the sort that would ever be 'sue happy,' but trust me, I am documenting EVERYTHING, times, incidents etc., on paper. They (Sunday night) were already concerned the wound was so deep that the tissue wouldn't recover and they would have to do skin grafts. If anything remotely associated to this fiasco causes further infection or gangrene or tissue death that would lead to him losing this toe, someone's head will roll.
Thanks for letting me dump on you. My kids and mom don't need to hear it. You can just hit the back button at any time. This would upset them.
And how's your week going?
OMG jaybird is VENTING! Hubby's toe and hospital!
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