{"id":2837,"date":"2010-12-04T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T15:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2010-12-04T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T15:32:28","slug":"another-er-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/2010\/12\/04\/another-er-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Another ER Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, here it is, another story about a trip to the ER.\u00a0 This time it’s me and not Elle.\u00a0 I know, weird huh?\u00a0 Let me start at the beginning.\u00a0 If you don’t know, I have a hernia and I’m having surgery to repair it on the 30th of this month.\u00a0 I had called the surgeon’s office the other day to ask about some pain medication.\u00a0 The pain has gotten a lot worse lately and I haven’t been feeling that great.\u00a0 Of course they didn’t call me back until almost 5pm that day, and I missed the call.\u00a0 The Medical Tech (or whatever she was) left a message saying, “we do not condone the use of pain medication before surgery, take advil, tylenol and alieve to help the pain<\/em> (which I already told her I was doing).\u00a0 If you are in a lot more pain, you should contact your Primary Care Provider and get re-evaluated.”<\/em>\u00a0 Wait, what?\u00a0 My PCP?\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 They are the one’s doing the surgery NOT<\/strong><\/em> my PCP!\u00a0 The next day I called my PCP and told them how I was feeling.\u00a0 They were nice enough to fit me into their schedule.\u00a0 My PCP was surprised that the Surgeon’s office sent me to her.\u00a0 When she examined me, she was worried that my hernia was “strangulated or incarcerated”,<\/em> and would require immediate surgery.\u00a0 She sent me over to the ER.<\/p>\n

So here goes the ER story.\u00a0 First off I had a very young Male Nurse examine me and push on my stomach.\u00a0 OWWWW!\u00a0 He wasn’t sure about it either, so he had the Doctor come in.\u00a0 Okay, I was wearing leggings, and you know leggings are very<\/em> stretchy, my hernia is on my lower abdomen where my c-section\/hysterectomy incision is.\u00a0 This doctor decided I needed to take my leggings completely off.\u00a0 What the Hell??<\/strong> (I know it’s not Wednesday, but seriously WHY<\/em> would I need them off?)\u00a0 It’s not like he needs to examine my legs or something!!\u00a0 He starts pushing all over my stomach too.\u00a0 Double OWWWWWW!\u00a0 He isn’t sure either, and decides that I need to have a CAT Scan.\u00a0 They gave me a dose of morphine and hooked me up to a few different devices to monitor my vitals.\u00a0 I still at this point did not<\/em> have my pants back!\u00a0 They were across the room on the chair!\u00a0 I took all the devices off and walked across the room to get my pants.\u00a0 Of course all the monitors are beeping and the alarms are going off!\u00a0 I got them on and got back into bed before the nurse came in.\u00a0 She said, “What happened?\u00a0 Is everything okay?\u00a0 Why are you all unhooked?”<\/em>\u00a0 I said, “I wanted my pants and I wasn’t going to lay her pant-less!”<\/strong>\u00a0 She just laughed and agreed that she would of gotten the pants too.<\/p>\n

So I laid there for about an hour drinking the nasty stuff for the CAT Scan.\u00a0 I got another dose of morphine that didn’t kill the pain, but made me dopey (insert joke here Elle).<\/em>\u00a0 Then right before I was going to go get my scan, a different Surgeon from the same practice that is doing my surgery came in to examine me.\u00a0 He said that he had already been at the ER doing a consult.\u00a0 He examined me and then said,“you have a hernia, it’s going to hurt, it’s going to hurt until you get it fixed.\u00a0 If you had a “strangulated hernia” you would be a heck of a lot sicker than you are right now.”<\/em>\u00a0 I said, “I am NOT<\/em> the one that came here, I called YOUR<\/em> practice and I was told to go see my PCP, my PCP is the one that sent me here.”<\/strong>\u00a0 He then said, “Well I’m glad I was here to examine you so they didn’t end up bothering me to come back in and examine you later.”\u00a0<\/em> WHAT????\u00a0 Hello, Mr. Jerky Surgeon guy who makes way too much money, it’s your freaking job!\u00a0 I then said, “what about the CAT Scan?”<\/strong>\u00a0 and he says, “Oh I would just cancel that you don’t need it, you’re fine, if you’re in so much pain you can call the office and see if they will move up the surgery.”<\/em>\u00a0 So at this point I’ve been at the ER for 4 hours alone and I am NOT<\/em><\/strong> in the mood for an attitude.\u00a0 I say, “I just drank a Big Gulp of crap, I am NOT<\/em> cancelling the Cat Scan now, and your office just called me and moved my surgery to a later date than I had!!”\u00a0 <\/strong>He said something else before he left but at this point I was no longer listening.<\/p>\n

Now comes the CAT Scan.\u00a0 I haven’t had a scan in a long time, and apparently I’ve never<\/em> had one with the dye they inject you with.\u00a0 He injects the dye, and at first it felt cold going in, and then I felt it…….oh my god<\/em> I just pee’d my pants!!\u00a0 OMG!!!<\/strong>\u00a0 I have never<\/em> pee’d my pants, I am in the scan, holding my breath and freaking out that I just pee’d all over myself!\u00a0 They pull me out of the scan I start feeling my legs and stuff and realize I didn’t just pee myself.\u00a0\u00a0 Huh?Apparently when they inject you with that dye they are suppose <\/em>to tell you that you will feel like you just pee’d your pants.\u00a0\u00a0 They didn’t mention that to me!<\/p>\n

Luckily my hernia wasn’t an emergency and they sent me home later that night.\u00a0 I’m still in a lot of pain, and I’m really not happy with the practice that is doing my surgery.\u00a0 But at this point I already have a scheduled surgery and if I were to switch to another practice it would be a few more months before I am able to have surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, here it is, another story about a trip to the ER.\u00a0 This time it’s me and not Elle.\u00a0 I know, weird huh?\u00a0 Let me start at the beginning.\u00a0 If you don’t know, I have a hernia and I’m having surgery to repair it on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[291,587,791,1105,1253,1617],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ISGQ-JL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}