{"id":17010,"date":"2016-12-19T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=17010"},"modified":"2016-12-19T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T13:02:33","slug":"emergency-room-december-19-2016-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/emergency-room-december-19-2016-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Emergency Room, December 19, 2016 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My hospital bed at NBH Emergency Department<\/p><\/div>\n

Much to my dismay I spent 4 hours in an Emergency Room yesterday. I am fine! I had a migraine headache for over 48 hours and the nurse practitioner at the Little Clinic said to go to the ER for a CT scan just to rule out any abnormalities. I am fine, no brain tumors, cancer, etc. Just a really bad migraine. Anyway, I would not return to the Norton Baptist Health out by Costco in the future. The doctors and nurses were very kind. However, the wait time and accommodations were deplorable. I waited for an hour to see someone in the triage where they did not really ask me that much. Then I was given a bed in a hallway outside of an active elevator. I was told I could wait in the waiting room for a private room but it could be hours. I took the hall and a partition, “what about HIPPA I asked?” at that point the doctor was ready to lead me back to hours of waiting in a waiting room with actively vomiting patients waiting. No thank you, I stayed in the hallway.<\/p>\n

Everything in a hospital is delayed and slowed down. It took an hour to have my blood taken, another hour before I received a CAT Scan and over another hour before anyone read it. I felt even worse for the couple across the hall from me in front of the other active elevator who also had no privacy but a partition, she had to change into a hospital gown in front of the elevator. I know the hospital was overcrowded and the nurses and doctors were doing the best they could in that situation, of course how good could it ever be in a hospital anyway?<\/p>\n

On the other hand I was humbled by the fact that I left with the exact headache I entered the hospital with but the knowledge that I have no life threatening diseases. Others were still in the hospital when I left, one went for surgery, another one had no one there by her side, like I had my husband. I appreciate my health, my support system, and my ability to function normally except for the pain of a migraine. After the hospital visit I had dinner with my family and went to the evening Mass and thanked God for my health and the ability to no longer be in the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not a good experience at the ER…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1821,1155,1822],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}