RANT!

Alayna

So two days ago I was meeting my mom upfront to bring her my little brother and sister to her after babysitting. As I’m driving my vision goes totally wack! The car in front of me looked like it was also in the oncoming lane and they had two medians and everything was blurry, so blurry and double vision . I’m thinking “well I just woke up (cuz ya girl loves sleep) maybe it’ll ware off “ I had to cover one eye to drive because that’s the only way I didn’t see double. I only had to go about ten minutes away . So I finally get back home and I’m watching tv and I still have double / blurry vision. And then a migraine comes on. So I go into my room and get my glasses , (which is mostly prescribed for my stigmatism and they aren’t need all the time). And it doesn’t help not even a little bit.

The next day it’s even worse. I’m standing in the kitchen and my boyfriend says “babe your left eye looks like it’s trying to cross. “ so I call the eye doctor and she tells me she can’t do anything for me to call a specialist, she put me on hold and connected me to one. He tells me “go to the er immediately! Being your eye is trying to cross and it happened out of no where is very odd and you have a migraine it could be something neuro.” So my boyfriend brings me to the er. One of the nurses says we’ll take you immediately after talking to the eye doctor I told her I talked with . I get into my room and by that time my moms there (I’m 20 I still want my mom there ) so the doctor comes in and asks me why I was in two weeks ago and I explained to him I had surgery to get my gallbladder removed . And he says “why were you in here two in a half weeks before that and I explained to him another time that I have kidney disease and I had gallstones and I was constantly throwing up(worse gallbladder attack I’ve ever had) and my mom was worried that my gallbladder had ruptured . And then I remembered that that incident he was also my doctor , my boyfriend got into an argument with his nurse because I’m allergic to penicillin and she was trying to give me some in my iv and said she’d give me Benadryl in the iv after so we trusted that. Then she gave me pain medicine ( he always looks up a name of a pain medicine when they give me something because of my kidney disease.) so he told her I couldn’t have that it’s not good for my kidneys . Basically, she got aggravated with him telling her what to do that we got a new nurse . ANYWAY. So he asks me why I’m in there and I explain it all to him and he says “well I guess you can consider that a reason to be in here” like I’m just doing what the eye doctor told me to do he freaked me out so yeah, I’m in here. Of course I didn’t say that though. And then he comes over to me and he’s looking in my eyes with his light and he says its probably nothing . And I said well that’s good and he starts pushing on my stomach and I said “I just had surgery I still have stitches and it still hurts right now “ and he says when’d you have surgery as he’s still pushing on me and I say “a week in a half ago” and he’s still pushing on my stomach . So he stands there looking at me and says ,” you have a headache ?” And I say yes , it’s only about a 7 right now I don’t want pain medicine “ ( I hate pain medicine and the way it makes me feel I try to avoid it if I can tolerate the pain) so he says “I guess I’ll do an mri if you insist” . my boyfriend jumped in and said “ yes, we insist “ so I get the mri and then he says I think I see something from your optic nerve just to make sure I’m gonna order a CT. So I go to CT . I come back and the nurse tells us , “it shouldn’t be long you’re first on the radiologists list it’ll take the longest as 45 minutes. “ a hour later she comes back and says “ he didn’t come talk to you yet ? He has the scan he wanted to look at it so it should only be a couple more minutes since the long part is already done” then there was the nurses shift change , FIVE HOURS LATER , he still hasn’t shown, so my boyfriend asks the nurse , and “he’s on break right now it’ll be about another hour “ like really ? He could’ve at least came and told us that or updated us or given us the answer we came here for and discharged us . Now I’m just holding up a room that someone else needs in the waiting room. He finally comes and says I have ischemic optic neuropathy. So he makes a remark and says “do you have another reason to stay in here now “ like I’m already fuming but my moms the laid back shy type and hates confrontation so I try my hardest , me and my boyfriend both to not say anything . Then he says “no? Okay then I’m gonna discharge you and I’m not giving you pain medicine “ and I said “I don’t need pain medicine I requested to not get it in the first place.” But then my boyfriend makes a remark and says “I do after dealing with this shit “ TWO HOURS later , I finally get discharged, NO medications at all, no antibiotics nothing and it took two hours . And not to mention he didn’t even explain this thing to us what it was how you treat it , nothing.