Wife's in the hospital
Thank goodness you have the patience to deal with the doctors and all of the behind the scenes crap... It's definitely not easy!
Rick, it's not just patience, but I've had to lay down the law a couple of times with both doctors. They've suggested a few things to me as options, like putting in an arterial screen to protect her lungs from more clots, it was given to me as an option. They then put it in her chart to be done. I wasn't happy. Um, when did we go from it's an option, to ordering it, without talking to me at all in the meantime. They both got their asses handed to them for that. Ya think that's information I'd like to have, maybe, just maybe, when they decided the need for it, instead of finding out from a nurse who told me about it two days after it was charted?
And then the ICU doctor put the procedure on hold without me knowing? Because he wanted to "talk" to me about continuing treatment instead of turning off the machines? I know my wife, I know the discussions we have about this situation over the years, I know what her living will says.
Sometimes, just sometimes, the doctors need a reminder, that, yes, they have the medical knowledge, but they don't have the knowledge I have of Sarah. And I'm not afraid to remind of that.
