72 hours post-surgery. the doctor has been flawless so far. the several nurses have decidedly not been.
trying to go outside doctor's orders to get me walking two days early, despite the risk it poses to my grafts
making me exercise my legs in bed on day two, against strict doctor's orders of rest only
telling me i will need to walk on day five, no matter what. i cannot walk. i came in in a wheelchair. the doctor said there are exercises that can work around my disability. the nurse says there are not.
telling me i need to start developing independence and they cannot pass things to me if the reach is hard, literally half an hour after surgery
informing me that nobody has ever died of pain, as a reply to concern about being asked to do a movement that would hurt a lot
failing to tell me that i needed to request pain meds, as opposed to being on a schedule as with my other meds, then being cagey about the recommended frequency, until the doctor eventually informed me of how often i can take them. this led to a very rough night for no good reason
taking half an hour to get me pain meds after requesting them, which meant about two hours with little to no pain management. justified by "well, you just had a major surgery, it's gonna hurt"
cutting my dose of pain meds in half without telling me. i certainly noticed when they wore off earlier
touching the surgery site without asking and for no explained reason, inducing significant pain. my pain was visible and audible and she did not stop
not checking on me when my pulse monitor alerted both me and the nurse station that my heart rate had dropped from ~100 to 35 in about fifteen seconds. then shot up back to normal. it was just an equipment error, but it is odd nobody came to check on me at all or even called me
i spat up brown sputum. asked the nurse if that was concerning. he told me it's just from the food i was eating (4x fries total in like 36 hours), then came back with a device to help prevent pneumonia. didn't get a straight answer on the risks until i talked to the doctor. brown sputum can be a sign of pneumonia, but also sometimes happens as part of anesthesia, and will probably resolve via use of the device
getting the occasional (i think accidental) he/him or sir. i am here to recover from a vaginoplasty. this is a hospital for that. are you kidding me.
