Re: OH man, am I pissed!!

April 5, 2001

You have every right to be pissed. What are they trying to do to you and Gracie. I never heard of such going on. Does your state have the educational law about it is the school's duty to provide teaching for every child's need? I will be rembering you and your children always.

Love

Carolyn

April 5, 2001

,

Oh sweetie, what can I say? I'm so sorry you had a crappy day, but

especially having to starve your poor daughter....once again, I would have

come unglued, and you showed incredible restraint! Better luck with

tomorrow, huh??

OH man, am I pissed!!

Grrr Grrr Grrr....

Went up to the children's hospital (over an hour away) for Gracie's MRI

today. Had to get the kids up at 5:30 am and leave the house by 6:30.

Dropped Adri off at the babysitter, then drove all the damn way to the

hospital. Registered in, and then sat there for an hour and 40 minutes

only to be told that they were NOT doing the MRI today. Seems that they

were worried about sedating Gracie because she is being tested for sleep

apnea a month from now.

Ok, so the logic of that, I can understand. What I can't understand is

WHY no one caught this little snag before hand. The order for the MRI

had to go through 2 different departments, which means 2 sets of

schedulers, 2 sets of doctors, but yet NO ONE caught it until we were

already there and had been waiting for almost 2 hours. :-( And then to

make it worse, no one wanted to accept responsibility for it, no one

even bothered to apologize or anything. In fact, one of the nurses got

rather nasty with me, to the point that I went and made a report to the

patient representative.

I just don't understand why a hospital of the caliber that this one

supposedly is has such poor communication between the departments. MRI

says it's developmental's fault...they should have known not to schedule

it. Developmental says it's MRI's fault, that they have no way of

knowing what MRI's policies are. In fact, the MRI nurse told me it was

MY fault for not telling them sooner. As if I should know that having a

sleep study a month from now would interfere with having an MRI today.

:-(

So I wasted a whole day for nothing. I woke my kids up at a horribly

early hour, I looked my 3 year old daughter in her face innumerable

times and had to tell her that not only could she not eat breakfast, but

that she couldn't even have a tiny sip of something to drink, I drove

for almost 3 hours and made a 110 mile round trip. And for what?? Grrr.

*hugs* to you all. Hope your day has been better than mine!

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April 5, 2001

wendyl,

oh that sucks.... i feel the frustration! and i'm sure i'm only feeling about

30% of what you felt! sorry you had such a crappy time with them..

E#%$@#%$#^#$#@$#^%#!!!

jennic

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April 5, 2001

It seems that fewer and fewer people will take responsiblity for their mistakes. AND fewer and fewer people will apologize. It is tiresome.

Lee

<whyten@...> wrote:

And then tomake it worse, no one wanted to accept responsibility for it, no oneeven bothered to apologize or anything

April 5, 2001

wrote:

> " Grrr Grrr Grrr....

>

> " drove all the damn way to the hospital. Registered in, and then sat there for

an hour and 40 minutes only to be told that they were NOT doing the MRI today.

> " ...but yet NO ONE caught it until we were already there and had been waiting

for almost 2 hours. :-( And then...no one wanted to accept responsibility for

it, no one even bothered to apologize or anything. In fact, one of the nurses

got rather nasty with me...the MRI nurse told me it was my fault... "

Dear ,

I wouldn't have taken prisoners; the line of bodies would have

stretched all the way to MRI from the street just from me demanding a

better explanation than that, I would have been so livid!!! I can still

see my ex-wife's face cringing at the sight of me starting to boil over

much less than what they did to you and your poor child (my ex- would

have been backing up as fast as her little scooter could carry her

LOL.). I would not have been satisfied until SOMEONE APOLOGIZED and

admitted fault. I'm serious, no one gets away from me without a better

explanation than that and an admission of guilt. Not that I'm so

special; but I wouldn't be able to control my temper and I would have

INSISTED on someone taking the blame and any nurse trying to blame me

for it would be wishing the thought never had occurred to her to do

that. They would have called security, I know, but they wouldn't get

off so easy. It would not have been over by then.

You have every right to be upset with them and I would encourage you

to make some calls; to your child's doctors at the very least--or

hospital administration--until someone, anyone, takes the blame and

calls YOU to do so.

I can't even IMAGINE the nurse trying to lay the blame on you; THEY

are the health care professionals while you are the MOTHER. YOU did

everything YOU were supposed to do; I'll bet you were even early for the

appointment.

My wife is the head of the Medical Records Coding Dept. at the

largest hospital in the Charlotte region. I have a good idea of the

amount of money that is generated by the kinds of services your child is

getting. It's not chicken feed, that's for sure. They OWE you much

more than you got for your trouble.

Best of luck to you and your little Gracie. I'm truly sorry all this

happened to you.

Hugs,

lyn

fbertaud@...

April 7, 2001

....I am so sorry to hear about this...That just goes to show you how

inconsiderate professionals (if that's what you want to call them) can

be....I have dealt with assholes like that a lot.....especially my pcp. The

other day I went to her as my left ear has been bleeding & I have been

extremely dizzy lately. I thought I had a terrible ear infection or

something. She put that thingy in my ear & turned it every which

way....needless to say I was in pure pain....I told her that whatever she

was pushing on was very painful....She said no infection...The problem must

be in the canal.... & left the office. What a B**CH!!! Sorry...my 1st vent

here on the list...You have enough problems....How is little Gracie? Tell

her hello from me please. Please take care & know that you are in my

thoughts & prayers. Hang in there! Hopefully things will get better soon!

Love,

barb