Gotta love hospitals!

**Sparky Bills** · 29th June 2007, 12:51

Turns out when I dislocated my shoulder, that I broke my arm too!
So there they were pulling and twisting my broken arm trying to put it back into place!
NO WONDER IT HURT SOOO MUCH!!

Luckily for me, the broken part (broke the very top of my arm, the ball part of the bone) fell back into place. So they dont have to operate. YAY for me!

Has anyone else had any problems like this before?
Im out of the Winter Series for at least another couple rounds.
Id be keen to hear from people in the know. How long did you wait etc?

**janno** · 29th June 2007, 12:55

Firkin 'el! Sounds most unpleasant.

Poor you. How long you off the bike for?

**Sparky Bills** · 29th June 2007, 12:56

Has been 4weeks now. At least 2 more. Well thats when I go back for a check up anyway.

**Sparky Bills** · 29th June 2007, 12:59

What annoyed me about this, was noone at the hospital told me my arm was broken. I found out a week later when the Orthapedic dude told me!
He couldnt understand why they put it back in knowing it was broken!

**Ivan** · 29th June 2007, 13:06

That Sux Martin,
I have never had a problem like that.

Any way so long as it heals properly and doesnt require surgery in the future

**007XX** · 29th June 2007, 13:17

I hate hospitals with a vengeance...

Sorry to hear of your trouble, sounds very painful!

Didn't have exactly that sort of experience, but once (8 and a half months pregnant), I was waiting to get an ultrasound to make sure my wee boy was doing well...
When a nurse approachs me and asks me to follow her...
And then proceeds to ask me to give her a urine sample, take my gear off and lie down for the preliminary inspection from the doc...wait for this.... for my INDUCTION!!!!

Needless to say I kind of balked at that

and spend about 10 mins convincing her I was not here to give birth!!!!

**Sparky Bills** · 29th June 2007, 13:20

Originally Posted by 007XX

I hate hospitals with a vengeance...

Sorry to hear of your trouble, sounds very painful!

Didn't have exactly that sort of experience, but once (8 and a half months pregnant), I was waiting to get an ultrasound to make sure my wee boy was doing well...
When a nurse approachs me and asks me to follow her...
And then proceeds to ask me to give her a urine sample, take my gear off and lie down for the preliminary inspection from the doc...wait for this.... for my INDUCTION!!!!

Needless to say I kind of balked at that

and spend about 10 mins convincing her I was not here to give birth!!!!

Thats got to fill you with convidence!

**007XX** · 29th June 2007, 13:28

Originally Posted by Sparky Bills

Thats got to fill you with convidence!

Oh definitely!!!

Needless to say, I warned my midwife that any doctors approaching me during childbirth would be promptly

out of the room!

**magicfairy** · 29th June 2007, 13:28

You could write a letter of complaint but it won't do much - response will be along the lines of "in the situation the staff felt they were doing all they could...."
As an ex-nurse who has seen the system from the inside my dealings with hospitals follow these 3 Rules (I read these once, given by a senior surgeon)

1 Avoid being admitted to hospital if you can
2 If you must stay in hospital, make the stay as short as possible, get discharged as soon as you can
3 Always try and have someone with you when you are being admitted or talking to medical staff when in hospital who can speak up on your behalf, ask questions and will remember what was said at the time.

Hospitals can be dangerous places, mistakes can be made, infections picked up and communications break down.

My own son was given 10 times too much morphine due to a drug calculation error by the nurses (5mg is way too much for a 5lb baby

)
If I hadn't been a nurse, saw him stop breathing and knew how to pick up the phone dial the emergency code and call in "respiratory arrest in childrens ward" (after telling the nurses who ignored me that I thought his breathing was going off) and then told the crash team it was morphine (it was a bit later they realised it was an OD) then they would not have reversed it in time and he would have died.
There are some good doctors and nurses out there, but increasingly hospitals are being staffed by juniors who are inexperienced, overworked and stressed.

**judecatmad** · 29th June 2007, 13:29

Originally Posted by 007XX

I hate hospitals with a vengeance...

Sorry to hear of your trouble, sounds very painful!

Didn't have exactly that sort of experience, but once (8 and a half months pregnant), I was waiting to get an ultrasound to make sure my wee boy was doing well...
When a nurse approachs me and asks me to follow her...
And then proceeds to ask me to give her a urine sample, take my gear off and lie down for the preliminary inspection from the doc...wait for this.... for my INDUCTION!!!!

Needless to say I kind of balked at that

and spend about 10 mins convincing her I was not here to give birth!!!!

2 in recent memory - hubby came off his bike last Sept, landed heavily on his elbow. Went to his doc who said it was just bruised and set him home. Was another week before the dipshit Doctor thought to xray it, and that was only cos I was nagging Dave to go back cos of the amount of pain he was in. Lo! and behold, it was broken and had already started to heal.....now he can't straighten his arm properly, but because it's only a little bit out of place, there's no op planned to fix him properly.

And the worst experience I ever had at a hospital was in Feb when I was miscarrying. Presented at Lower Hutt Hospital A&E, was asked what was wrong by the triage nurse (plexiglass between me and him, and the triage area is right in the middle of the waiting room) - this is after having explained to the receptionist what was wrong and having to sit there while a baby was triaged right in front of me - was in floods of tears, hubby had to take over and explain that I was in the middle of a miscarriage. They took me through to the back area and left me in a corridor, waiting. Then a nurse came up to me and asked if there was any chance I was pregnant.........if I hadn't been so upset and shocked at the question, I would have torn strips off her. Hubby is too mild mannered to fly off the handle but I'm still appalled and angry at the insensitivity.

**Goblin** · 29th June 2007, 13:31

Originally Posted by Sparky Bills

What annoyed me about this, was noone at the hospital told me my arm was broken. I found out a week later when the Orthapedic dude told me!
He couldnt understand why they put it back in knowing it was broken!

I dont blame you for being annoyed, sounds incredibly painful.
I reckon it's because you are a motorcyclist and a lot of doctors think we deserve to suffer for being so stupid as to ride motorcycles....and crash.

Just shows how often they do stuff up. When I had my thumb operated on, they had to draw an arrow on my left arm, above the cast, so they didnt operate on the wrong thumb.

**007XX** · 29th June 2007, 13:34

Originally Posted by judecatmad

2if I hadn't been so upset and shocked at the question, I would have torn strips off her. Hubby is too mild mannered to fly off the handle but I'm still appalled and angry at the insensitivity.

Really sorry to hear that...I can only imagine how that would feel! All the best for a "retry", if any planned....

**Sparky Bills** · 29th June 2007, 13:41

Originally Posted by Goblin

I dont blame you for being annoyed, sounds incredibly painful.
I reckon it's because you are a motorcyclist and a lot of doctors think we deserve to suffer for being so stupid as to ride motorcycles....and crash.
.

But I did it on riding my mountain bike. Maybe the same thing....?Both have 2 wheels, both crash lots.

**u4ea** · 29th June 2007, 13:42

Gee Sparky Bills you got a bummer deal!!!I know how painful it is ..when I broke my shoulder in 5 places and had concussion ,the hospital was going to discharge me (to get to another town) with no clothes as I was wearing leathers and there was no way I was able to get them on again in a hurry!yup..Gotta Love Hospitals ..