I meant to post this Yesterday, So Pretend it was yesterday that you read this lol
OMG, So I was getting ready to go to bed last night, did my normal regiment, take a vicodan, lay down watch Daily Show and Steven Colbert with the hubby on DVR, get ready to fall asleep and out of no where my tooth, which hasn't bothered me since January, GOES NUTS! The pain was awful, so I went brushed my teeth again, flossed, used some mouth wash, still excrutiating pain. So call L&D, they tell me not to come all the way out to their hospital, which is 30 minutes away, go to the closest one, the one 5 blocks away.... HUGE MISTAKE!
They take me into Triage, and she tries to take my blood pressure with the machine 5 times.... ???/?? is what it kept reading so she goes to put the cuff on my lower arm, i tell her, inbetween tears, if you take my blood pressure in my lower are its wrong.... She does it anyways.... 168/118.... My head feels like its gonna explode, they put me in a Trauma room because all other ER beds are full. After an hour and a half of crying, a nurse comes in, asks whats wrong, i tell him about the tooth ache and the fact that i've had a few contractions , 3 to be exact, durring that hour and a half.... he says ok, procedure is once i give you a shot to help your mouth we send you to L&D here to get checked out.... So I'm like ok... This is at 5am... He come back in 15 minutes later, gives me a shot, but completely misses the nerve, i'm still in pain, but it did take some of the edge off... so i'm able to talk again, with out feeling like my heads gonna explode.
He says, ok, i'm discharging you, you'll be going up to L&D in a few... ok no problem... this is at 5:20am.... At 7am My husband finally finds the nurse and says, are you gonna actually discharge her.... They had lost my chart.... no one knew where the other one put it so they couldn't release me until they had the chart.... so they say ok we need you to go to L&D now, I said why, I haven't had a contraction in over 2 hours, they say cuz you wanna get your baby checked out to make sure he's ok... i say, he's moving and kicking me, he's fine.... well if you don't your insurance wont pay for this visit.... fine....
so they finally discharge me.... now they are argueing with each other, where L&D is now in the hospital because they had remodeled it a few months ago and moved it to a different floor.... So you mean you work in this small hospital, and no one even knows what floor the Labor and Delivery department is on..... wow....
So i get upstairs finally about 10 after 7 and i stand there for about 10 minutes cuz i didn't feel like laying down... they were great there, really friendly, super concerned about what they did down in the ER and everything, and even gave me a gift card for my long wait down stairs and the head of L&D asked if she could follow up with me after having the baby, sure no problem...
Fastforward to 2pm this afternoon after sleeping for 3 hours... pain is right back, my dentist wont see me, no other dentist will see me because of the c section being 48 hours away, and i'm feeling like im going to DIE. Got ahold of my Hospital's dental school who says they'll take me as an emergency, get there, after about an hour and a half they numb me... thank God...
Now tomorrow morning at 7am I have to head BACK out there to have the tooth pulled... I just hope I make it through the night....
Moral of the story... if your in pain and you won't take your worst enemy there.... don't go there 9 months pregnant no matter how badly your hurting.... :(
Ok thats my rant... im gonna take a vicodan and try to sleep soon.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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Ok. Five blocks away, huh? I am pretty sure I know the one you speak of.
I go to the Catholics at Saint Joseph. They're all right.
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