I had the heart procedure last Monday. When I woke up, I could not move my neck. The doctor had told us that he was only going to make one incision but ended up making three and one of them was on my neck. I am waiting on a an MRI right now to see just how much damage the Doctor did on my neck. This whole thing has been a disaster. On Friday I started feeling some horrible pains at one of the incision sites, my leg was bruising, it was weird. The pain got so bad I ended up in the ER and then was admitted to the hospital with internal bleeding from one of the incision sites. In all of this the Doctor was no where to be found. We called his office over and over again for an entire week and only got one call back from him and all that came out of his mouth was a bunch of lies to cover up his mistakes. When I was in the hospital with internal bleeding, he refused to even come down (his office was one floor up from where I was) to check on me or even discharge me. THANK GOD for my regular cardiologist. When we called her and told her what was going on, she was there within the hour and took care of everything. She was floored at what that Doctor had done to me.
I am on a heart monitor now, probably for the rest of the year. I am starting a new heart medication because when that messed up Doctor went in to fix the problem, he actually never fixed the problem. He cut me up, made a mess of my body and never fixed the issue that he was suppose to go in and fix. And I am going back to the Neurosurgeon. I may end up having that neck surgery after all.
On top of all of this, the hospital that I was in violated my HIPA rights not once, not twice but four times. I signed the confidentiality agreement to remain anonymous in the hospital and they still gave my medical information and such to any random person that asked. The hospital could care less. For almost a week after my surgery, we had no clue what was done and why they cut me up so much because after my surgery, instead of calling my husband like instructed to do, they went out into the waiting room, called my name and whomever answered the nurse gave them all of the information on my procedure including after care instructions. When ever we asked (we = me the patient and my husband) for after care instructions or why I was cut so much or even what was done we were given one of two answers, “I don’t know” or “I can’t give you that information”.
I feel so empty and helpless right now.