Going Crazy!!

Wow! Well it has been a whirl wind around me. A couple of weeks ago my son woke up and could barley breath. He was grasping for air and trying to cry but couldn't. So we took him to the E.R. ! They said he had croup and his windpipe was trying to close . I told the doctor that he was fine when he went to bed! He didn't have anything wrong with him. They gave him breathing treatments and medication. Which helped and them they sent us home with a breathing machine. They said because my son has immune system problems that the onset of the croup would do that to him. Totally scary!! It's a very good thing that when something happens I have been trained to know what to do. Still I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone. Then on May 12 th my husband woke up with a sore stomach, which he said I must of pulled a muscle in the stomach . Or so he thought. They day went on, he did some yard work with the bobcat . The pain got worse he could not stand up straight all the rest of the day. I told him is probably was his appendix. Of course that's like talk to a brick wall. He went to bed early and around 12am he could barley move . Still he said he was fine . Saturday around 7:30 am I said you can't even walk you don't have a choice I am taking you to the E.R. ! I put him in the car and head to the hospital. They do a cat scan on the abdomen. They said the appendix was a 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Which means he need surgery soon. Another 21/2 hours go buy and finally got to have surgery by this time it was 2 pm mind you we arrived at 9:05 am !! The surgeon comes out a says his appendix was ruptured and is was very nasty he also said it had stones in it and the had to me removed because the fell out when removing the appendix. He also said they got all the infection. Who new that appendix could have stones!! I certainly never heard of it. After surgery they moved us to a room . Well there's were the night mare began. The nurse on Saturday night was great. The one we had on Sunday was a night mare. The entire day she came in one time . I mean husband had loose stool (sorry for that info) and I pressed the button to call some one down. If they would have told me the machine he was hooked up to could be unplugged I would have done that so he could make it to the bathroom. But no one came I had to find the break room and ask for help . The help I got was yeah you can unplug it . No came to change the sheet or anything I had to do it . I mean I'm sorry but when your in the medical field you should do your job. Other wise don't be a dam nurse. Because no one check on him on Sunday he got a major infection. Come Monday he had to get a tube stuck up his nose down to the stomach . It was put there to pump out the yuck. I mean I won't go in to details but I knew that something wasn't right. He finally go to come home on Wednesday evening . Now he's recovering , he's very sore and tired. Let this be a lesson to those of you who don't want to do your job or hate it . Remember the patient didn't ask to have an illness and they would like to get treated with respect to. I know some people can be hard to deal with but if you just don't want to help people find a different line of work. I will be contact the medical board on the nurse who did nothing and caused a infection .