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Originally Posted by jaxfam6
I don't think I could have ended that one over the phone. I think I would have been down there in their face if they would say such an ignorant thing to me. I might even start looking for a different office to deal with
serious condition or not that is not the right way to deal with a parent of a sick child
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I don't know why some people are in the medical profession.
When my brother was 15, he was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. At the beginning he was in isolation, you had to suit up and wear a mask to go in to see him. They questioned everyone about whether or not they were sick before letting them in to see him. I have year-round allergies and frequently have a sniffle. When they questioned me I told them that I had the sniffle but that I knew it was allergies, but to be on the safe side, I would stay out of his room. It was torture for me not to go in there to see him.
Anyway, long story longer, I had asked my mom to ask him what he would like me to bring him, and he said peanut butter cookies. So I went home and baked him some cookies, and sealed them up and brought them back to the hospital. I was walking down the hall to his room when a nurse who had been there when I said that I had allergies stopped me and asked me what I was doing. I explained that I had brought him some cookies, and she said, "You can't go in there". I told her that I wasn't going in there, I was going to hand them in the door to my mother. This women proceed to yell at me "Stay away from his room, don't you understand your brother is dying, do you want to KILL him?"!!!!!
I can understand and appreciate that she was trying to protect him, but there are about 1 million other ways that she could have dealt with a devastated family member. Needless to say, I lost it. I went off on this woman on a monumental scale.
Funny thing is, this was a podunk hospital in our town, the next week he was transfered to the Children's Hospital in LA and there they had him in a open room with no masks or anything.
'Some folk don't understand that the middle "F" in AFF is the most important ingredient!' -noeticknight
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