keikei

keikei specializes in public health.

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1. Treating pain in ER

   keikei replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

   Yes, you're probably right. My experiences aren't important, OP, I am very sorry to have hijacked your post & if I have made it more difficult for you to get the answers you were looking for. When I shared, I was thinking it might help if you k...

2. I refuse to be a punching bag - NO MORE ASSAULT

   keikei replied to abbaking's topic in Relations

   very true - most people wouldn't dream of assaulting a flight attendant (whose job IS to bring you things to eat/drink and keep you comfortable) or swearing at a TSA for fear of being charged with a federal crime. Everyone knows the consequences are...

3. Treating pain in ER

   keikei replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

   I have no idea what you're talking about. I haven't lectured anyone or asked anyone to make anything about me. I didn't comment on a post you wrote or were participating in and yell at you for anything you wrote or felt, I don't even know you. I r...

4. Treating pain in ER

   keikei replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

   Oh, I don't doubt that at all! My neighbor is a cardiac nurse. She works LONG hours and the stories she tells me are eye openers sometimes! When I said I was shocked about what I read on here, it wasn't mean in a judgmental way, I meant it as in "...

5. Treating pain in ER

   keikei replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

   Because the "walls" and "doors" in the ER are curtains? Everyone can hear everything, there is no privacy at all and when you're lying in bed for 17 hours waiting for an IV to finish, you hear a lot of things. I am having a conversation on here wit...

6. Treating pain in ER

   keikei replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

   I agree - it's not my PCP, it's my nephrologist that does this. She only sees patients once a week because she is with a teaching facility which is also the same place as the ER where she sends me. They know I have a lot of kidney stones that are s...

7. Treating pain in ER

   keikei replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

   ....Oh, just venting in general... Even though I'm just starting this journey (and later in life at that), I feel that I've learned a lot just being a patient. I've gotten a unique view of what is going on in a hospital because I am usually there ...

8. Treating pain in ER

   keikei replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

   This is my reason for reading the posts on here, though I don't post much since I don't have any real nursing experience. I want to get a feel for what I'll be doing before I invest a lot of time/money into schooling for it. I want to make sure I h...

9. Treating pain in ER

   keikei replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

   My doctor does call the ED and does have a pain management plan in place. It's all in my chart and she always calls in advance, tells them why she is sending me in, what she would like done, etc. And they are waiting for me when I arrive. This par...

10. Treating pain in ER

    keikei replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

    I just wanted you to know that I do understand. I have huge kidney stones too, but they don't know how to treat them because I have PKD. So sometimes the pain from the stones flares up and it's seriously the worst pain ever. Or if a cyst starts bl...

11. Bad experience - is this typical?

    keikei replied to keikei's topic in Emergency

    I have a friend who is a nurse in that ER. She was at a wedding last weekend. She was not there. What is so odd about that? I also have a friend who is an ER doctor. She does not work at the ER. What is so strange about that? Why would I even ...

12. Bad experience - is this typical?

    keikei replied to keikei's topic in Emergency

    There was nothing mysterious about it. The shift changed at 9pm and that was when this nurse came on duty. From what I could understand, the shifts were 4 or 12 hours, I could be wrong. The nurse that was supposed to be taking care of me said she ...

13. Bad experience - is this typical?

    keikei replied to keikei's topic in Emergency

    Thank you very much for saying this. My biggest concern was that it was something I did or didn't do that caused this to happen. I understand that ER's are busy, crazy places and that it must be very frustrating to have people come in who should h...

14. Bad experience - is this typical?

    keikei replied to keikei's topic in Emergency

    I can't respond to all of the questions about every little detail. You can believe me or not, at this point it doesn't even matter. My only reason for posting here was that I arrived at this site from a google search about was this normal care. I ...

15. Bad experience - is this typical?

    keikei replied to keikei's topic in Emergency

    That's all pretty accurate. Except I was not oozing, it was squirting out with each heart beat unless I kept pressure on it. Had it only been oozing, I would have waited and gone to my regular PCP or something the next morning. The five hours part...