Lets just get to the PT(Physical Therapy) staff issues first!!
Their PT staff SHOULD BE BANNED and KICKED OUT of the hospital for good!! They are extremely unfriendly, pushy, act like they know it all, and EXTREMELY CARELESS. First, THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN TO TRY AND FORCE ME TO navigate with crutches up some hard steel fire escape steps with a huge external fixator on my foot. They had never made me do it a month before when I originally got the fixator put on my foot in their same hospital, Deaconess! I almost had my head cracked open!!
I told them I had already navigated the steps AT HOME(we live on second floor) several times with the fixator on my foot. And, that I have probably had, in total, a couple years experience already of having to use crutches due to a badly broken leg about 14 years ago.
Almost had my skull cracked open because they tried, AND DID, make me walk up some of those hard steel fire escape steps with crutches while, on my foot, I had an external fixator. It is a metal object well over a foot long and about 10" wide and basically holds my foot together. Every time I took a step up the stairs, the fixator was banging on the hard steel fire escape steps because it was twice the size of those steps. Then they(PT) had a strap wrapped around my waist thinking they were going to be able to stop me if I fell. First of all, the person holding the strap didn't have the strength to even begin to stop me if I fell. Second of all, having them tugging and pulling on the strap all the time I was trying to navigate up the steps with the crutches just made it much more difficult to balance myself on each step!! I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE PT(Physical Therapy) go up the same steps with crutches with the same massive external fixator on their foot!!!
Anyway, I fell when just about at the top of the steps but fortunately I was quite aware of everything going on (even though night before I had a blood transfusion besides being on a variety of drugs) and grabbed a rail before falling completely down and didn't get hurt otherwise I COULD HAVE CRACKED MY HEAD WIDE OPEN!!
Even though I had had the external fixator put on my foot the last time I was in this hospital, over a month ago, I never had any problem leaving with it. But this time they tried to force me to stay and said I could not leave!! (NOT!)
1)RECOVERY IN HOSPITAL
NOT ONE BIT COMFORTABLE AT ALL!!! Have had 2 stays in last 60 days(as of 8/3/19) Have the WORST beds. After a day, butt was getting real sore. They finally bring in a small inflatable mattress and put under me which didn't help much at all!! Sheets, especially top half, kept coming off bed. Bed also has a mechanism on it where if you get out of bed, to just stand for a second, a LOUD ALARM goes off and everybody rushes to you like you are a criminal trying to escape. You cannot get up and stand on the side of the bed on the one good leg you have to pee which is what I've done in previous hospitals all the time.
2)Nurses(RN's, not the assistants):
Most RN's in charge seemed nice, caring, and knowledgeable. Only problem was they were always late in delivering meds causing you to keep getting them later and later every time, if you had to wait a specified number of hours for the next dose.
3)Nurse assistants!
Some were good but a few were uncaring, obnoxious, lazy i.e. didn't seem to want to help much, and downright jerks(Guy nurses especially). They also did not seem to be on the same page all the time.
FINAL NOTE: Somebody (I figure it was someone from PT(Physical Therapy)) had the gall to call me on a Saturday afternoon, a day after getting out of hospital, and said they "WERE COMING OVER SUNDAY" to help me or do whatever they were going to do. They sounded like I did NOT HAVE A CHOICE but that they WERE COMING OVER like demanding it. You can just guess what I told them and of course they never came over. But I could not believe how they WERE ACTING LIKE THEY WERE COMING OVER WITHOUT EVEN ASKING!!!
FIRE ALL PT'S at Deaconess!
And NEVER go to DEACONESS if you can help it!! read more