April 15

[Guest guest]

Hi, I am new to the PAI site. I was searching for information on

pancreatitis, which I already know to much about, and stumbled,

happily, upon it.

On April 15 my husband, , will have been deceased for 3 years

from an acute pancreatitis attack. He had a few of them, but not

often. His cause was hyperlipidemia V. What a shock. Because he

had had other attacks we knew exactly what we were dealing with and

knew exactly what to expect. I drove him to the local hospital, we

live in New Hampshire, at 8 in the morning JUST TO GET THE PAIN UNDER

CONTROL. We were going to have him transferred to another hospital

later in the day. That never happened. By noon time I believe that

he was in some sort of a coma state and at 4:30 he was dead.

I am in the process of a suit against the hospital. There were so

many signs that he had something going on that wasn't right. The

nurse never listened to me when I approached her with them. She just

gave me lame excuses to get away from me and was off to another

patient.

The hospital says that they did everything right, but I know better.

When you have done this a time or 2 you know what it's

like. He's in pain, they give him meds, put in the NG tube, and take

a CT scan to see the progression of the pancreas. Boy did they give

him pain meds! He had to ask when they were going to tube him. They

never did a CT scan.

I am furious. My husband was only 35. I am writing this, mostly to

say to all of you suffering and to all of you who are the hand

holders like I was. Make sure that all of your medical personnel are

listening to you. If you don't feel like they are, yell louder.

was being treated by a General Physician whom I told

personally that was very sick. His response was " it's only

pancreatitis " . Make sure that you are being heard and they are doing

what you expect from them. We know what, or practically know what,

we should expect when entering an ER. Make sure they listen.

couldn't talk for himself and I did the best I could. I

should have yelled louder when I wasn't getting the attention I

wanted for the concerns I had. Now, that's why I'm sueing them.

THEY SHOULD HAVE LISTENED !!!!!

Make sure you are heard.

NH

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

I too am a new member. Reading your letter really scared me! I

have been in constant pain for 6 weeks now. I also see a MD. Each

time I go in to see him, he tries a different pain medication. Right

now he has me on Demerol. The Demerol tablets are 50 mg each and he

has me taking 2 tablets every 4 hours as needed. In other words, I

can take 100 mg every 4 hours (that's alot).

I have been beginning to feel like a guinnea pig, so I checked out

the Doctor Database and I emailed a dr. at the University of

Minnesota (I live in Minnesota) and he thinks I should get in to see

him as soon as possible, however, my insurance won't cover it unless

I am referred by my MD. Tomorrow (Tuesday) I have an appointment to

see my MD and I am taking a print out of the email I received from

the dr. at the University, and I am asking for a referrel.

I am very sorry about your husband. Thank you for sharing this

info., it really seemed to hit home as it seems like no one at our

clinic or hospital knows anything about pancreatitis. Please pray

that I make it to see this specialist at the University.

Again, I am sorry to hear about your husband, and I think you are

doing the right thing by sueing the hospital, hopefully it will make

more medical people aware of the dangers involved with pancreatitis.

Welcome to the club, and if you want to talk, feel free to email

me.

Hugs,

Louise ()