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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / March 2009Idiotic Surgery Story
So I go into the hopital practcally wearing a billboard that says, "I've got HCV" because I've got a horror of infecting anyone. The day I get home, the Infectious Diseases nurse calls me. Now, is everyone sitting down? .....It turns out one of the surgical nurses not only did not wear gloves, she touched my wound while it was bleeding and she had an open sore! How do you spell stupid????? I would almost say it serves her right if she gets infected but I can't bring myself to be that mean. > So I go into the hopital practcally wearing a billboard that says, "I've > got HCV" because I've got a horror of infecting anyone. The day I get [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > sore! How do you spell stupid????? I would almost say it serves her > right if she gets infected but I can't bring myself to be that mean. Certainly in Standard Operating Procedures (unfortunate pun) the drill in that scenario would have been for someone responsible for the task to remind everyone remotely to do with touching you or instruments that your blood presents a serious risk of infection. Basic workplace safety and health briefing required when working with a crew in heavy construction and the like comes to mind. Or on railroads, refineries, ships, etc. hurry up and heal, now Thipper! warm caring caress cactus jammies > So I go into the hopital practcally wearing a billboard that says, "I've got > HCV" because I've got a horror of infecting anyone. The day I get home, the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > spell stupid????? I would almost say it serves her right if she gets > infected but I can't bring myself to be that mean. what year is it? were you in a "twilight zone" episode? If you wind up with an abcess, I want you to promise to raise holy hell over this nurse not taking proper precautions for YOUR health issues!! Hopefully all will be will, but after what I saw my son go through when he had major abdominal surgery, I don't have a lot of faith in our medical professionals as far as them taking care not to infect us. And, of course, we don't really want anyone to contract the virus from us, but it almost sounds like she was TRYING to get it! geeze take care, friend. heal quickly and be well. hugs Sara I know the feeling,Thip, had a similar experience only it wasn't one of the nurses, it was a LAB TECH! Talk about what century are we in, is right! I reported her to the hospital and expressed my concern (tho I am virus free today) that what if I had NOT been diagnosed and treated the year before, I would have still been carrying all that contaminated blood - I was horrified to see a Lab tech playing with my IV, making it leak and my blood all over the tips of her fingers of both hands. The hospital was very concerned about identifying who it was so they could be given additional training in safety procedures. Making the story wierder, a few months later I went to my regular doc for bloodwork, walked in and now she was working THERE (I thought, wowo the hospital must have fired her!) This time she put on the gloves and prepped to take my blood, then stretched up the tip of the finger and chopped it off with the scissors, and proceded to use the bare finger to palpitate my vein and so on. Go figure. Yeah you gotta look out for yourself.... > So I go into the hopital practcally wearing a billboard that says, "I've > got HCV" because I've got a horror of infecting anyone. The day I get [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > sore! How do you spell stupid????? I would almost say it serves her > right if she gets infected but I can't bring myself to be that mean. What a story, but all too common these days. Cripes almighty, whatever happened to "hospital clean?" I hope you make a formal complaint to the hospital, the board, the state health care dept. and whatever other "responsible" agencies you have. That the nurse put herself at risk is shocking, but that she put you, the patient, at risk by sloppy procedures is inexcusable. I'll bet that, at the very least, you're looking forward to full mobility so you can kick her a.s :-) Take care, heal quickly and look forward to summer. Spidey >> So I go into the hopital practcally wearing a billboard that says, "I've >> got HCV" because I've got a horror of infecting anyone. The day I get [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Spidey I did report it (and several other things) to the hospital administrator. We'll see how (if) he responds). |
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