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Written by Anonymous User
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
I received liposuctions on areas from my armpits and on down to me knees (essentially my back, buttocks, abdomen, sides, inner and outer thighs, anterior thighs, and knees. After completing surgery, I was taken to an Halycon in Los Angeles to recuperate. I was an hour late arriving at the facility, because it took an extra hour to stabilize me after surgery due to the high level of pain I was experiencing.
When I arrived I was taken out of the van and despite being in a huge amount of pain, was forced to walk thirty feet into the house and up a flight of stairs.
The bed I was given was very hard. The nurse 'helped' me get into bed by grabbing by legs and lifting them on the bed while I struggled painfully to lay on my back which had just been operated on. After I was lying flat, the nurse ordered me 'scoot yourself up higher in the bed'.
Going to the bathroom was also painful. Rhe nurse would pull me upwards out of the bed by my right arm and order me in a stern voice to 'push the rest of your body up using your other arm'. This was very difficult and painful, yet she would not help me despite my protestations. Walking upright was very difficult and placing myself on the toilet was very difficult (she offered me no assistant in that endeavor other than to order me to 'bend at the knees'), not to mention painful. She also informed me that night that I would have to go to the bathroom unassisted the next day.
I needed to use the bathroom several times and had to endure this process at least 5 or 6 times.
At 4am, I was awakened by terrible pain. I called the nurse, who sternly told me,'There is nothing wrong with you, you just had a pill five minutes ago, go back to bed.' That was totally untrue, I had been given a pill about an hour early. There was nothing more for me to do than like awake in pain from 4am until about 8 o'clock when the nurse brought me some more pills. The pills did not do much to make the pain go away, plus the hard bed was making my liposuction back hurt even more.
I informed the nurse that I was leaving the facility that day and she asked me, 'Oh is the bed bothering your back?' I told her yes and she offered to move me to another room. I told her I much preferred to leave.
I left a little after 9am that day, even though I had paid in advance for two days (the cost is $400 a day!).
I later found out that my aneasthesiologist called the facility the night that I arrived at 9pm, got an answering machine, left a message and was never called back. He called because he was concerned about my condition.
The next day, he called facility and the nurse LIED and told him that 'she was just fine when she left this morning'. How do you like that for institutional inegrity?
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 16 February 2008 )
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