12-27-2010, 12:08 AM
last New Years Eve i was in the cardiac ICU in Boston, having had a heart attack on the 30th.
a day after that i got tired of the hospital because they gave me shit about detaching my leads and rolling my IV stand/pole outside for a cigarette. picky picky picky anal nurses.
so i decided to get the hell out of there and this is what ensued:
little hospital story...this young doctor enters my cell...er...room...and tells me ambulances are expensive so i should take a train home to the Cape when i'm discharged . the only problem with that is there ARE NO TRAINS to Cape Cod! so i said to him, let me be sure i understand this...i am supposed to go out and wander about in a snowstorm until i find a train station , although i JUST had cardiac catherization and my femoral artery has been dissected like a frog in biology class and i could bleed out in two minutes flat? he replied well uh yes. so i rang for the nurse. she came in and i announced that obviously one of their psych patients had chewed through his straps and was standing in my room wearing a white coat and stethoscope.
she threw him out into the hall before i ripped his face off. and within the hour i was told an ambulance would be taking me directly to my door on the Cape. (which my insurance would cover.) i don't know what mop closet they assigned young doctor kildare to after that.
and i don't know why they didn't think i was a great patient.
got a New Years story? :newyearkiss:
a day after that i got tired of the hospital because they gave me shit about detaching my leads and rolling my IV stand/pole outside for a cigarette. picky picky picky anal nurses.
so i decided to get the hell out of there and this is what ensued:
little hospital story...this young doctor enters my cell...er...room...and tells me ambulances are expensive so i should take a train home to the Cape when i'm discharged . the only problem with that is there ARE NO TRAINS to Cape Cod! so i said to him, let me be sure i understand this...i am supposed to go out and wander about in a snowstorm until i find a train station , although i JUST had cardiac catherization and my femoral artery has been dissected like a frog in biology class and i could bleed out in two minutes flat? he replied well uh yes. so i rang for the nurse. she came in and i announced that obviously one of their psych patients had chewed through his straps and was standing in my room wearing a white coat and stethoscope.
she threw him out into the hall before i ripped his face off. and within the hour i was told an ambulance would be taking me directly to my door on the Cape. (which my insurance would cover.) i don't know what mop closet they assigned young doctor kildare to after that.
and i don't know why they didn't think i was a great patient.
got a New Years story? :newyearkiss: