“VA Nurse Refused to Get a Veteran in Severe Pain a Bed, So He Laid On The Cold Floor”
I was within a quarter inch of that myself, last time I was there. They even became angry with me for asking to lie down. If some 84 year old guy in a wheelchair hadn’t started talking with me, I think I’d have done it.
Both Administrator, Sub Administrator, and all 3 shifts from that floor from the janitor to the head of the floor should be fired today with NO PENSIONS. Sen. Richard Burr 202 224 3154, Thom Tillis 202 224 6342, Rep Butterfield 202 225 3101 all US Congress. Contact your own too.
It’s not just VA it’s even private hospitals. Beware of stand alone clinics. They have more legal protection than a hospital has.
I had a bad reaction to MS Contin, locked up all my joints in severe pain, and caused a really bad case of diarrhea for several hrs, it would run down my leg every time I tried to stand. Several changes in night clothes were needed. Took me 4 days to get the crap out of my system.
Got myself out of the OR cart and went to the RR when I had the inner ear perfusion, I needed to pee, no call button, no vital checks, No place for the IV to be hung on, but the toilet flush handle. Sadistic doctor. This is a 3 day same day surgery. No pain meds. I fired the butt hole. And would not go back for the 6 wk check up, made my PCP find me another ENT. Come to find out the POS had a bad rep of being sadistic. Biggest stand alone ear clinic in Memphis, could not get the state to go after him. Lost half my low freq hearing. And now wear twin hearing aids, I had to pay for, as I’m a spouse, not the service member.
We are way over the VA cap so have to use private docs and hospitals. Hubby gets a new partial knee on Mar 22. Over night stay as Medicare insist on it. Not necessary. 1st one he walked with out aid 30 mins after surgery. Was driving 3 days later.