2 /5 Joyce StAndrie: I was not impressed. It was a completely different experience than it was 4 months ago. First of all, I had 5 different nurses taking care of me. They just kept wandering off, then someone else would come introduce themselves. The first nurse was male and he stuck in the blood draw needle in the muscle of my foreman, even though I told him that no one has ever had trouble using the inside of my elbow. He said he didnāt like using the inside of elbow because itās too uncomfortable. It hurt me very badly for a couple of hours. I told him look itās already bruising. He said thatās just blood gathering under the skin and it would go away. He couldnāt get any blood flow so he moved it to my hand. Even though he had already told me that the veins in my hand probably wouldnāt work. He told me he blew out that vein so he moved to the crook of my right arm. That was the most painful experience with blood draw Iāve ever had.
The anesthesiologists came to talk to me and they were awful. If I had not been through the same procedure 4 months earlier, I would have had no idea what they were talking about. When I was out of surgery and Dr. Hanson came to talk to me, he asked how much I remember about being in the surgery center. I told him way more than last time. He said I thought so, you were still talking until right before the surgery. Then he told a different male nurse, āhe was weird. Iāve never seen that beforeā. When that nurse went to add something to my IV, he discovered that the IV was no longer in place. Finally, they moved it to the crook of my left arm- where I asked him to put it originally.
I had two or three more nurses after that gentleman. The recovery nurse was good, but she talked and talked and talked- she was so loud. She had one more nurse take over for her before I was released. And she acted like it was her first day and she had no idea what to do. My daughter was only there for about 30 minutes and she even said, I am not impressed with this place!
