pretty flower PART C (AND LAST SECTION) RESPONSE

I've since had three more episodes, but was better prepared for dealing with each. Scary and unnerving just the same. For the last one (the 4th, this past Friday evening) my husband drove to the county trauma center just before 10 PM, and I was attended to by an experienced, knowledgeable PA, and given the phone number for the Dept of Otolaryngology at that teaching hospital. This morning (Monday) I am placing the call, happy to have that avenue because not ONE of the ENTs in our town and surrounding area was willing to see me, telling me "....you need to be seen by a trauma specialist..." Well, that's what happened Friday night! And that hospital is rated the TOP trauma center in the county...

I am appalled that not ONE doctor within the ENT departments of medical groups within my town and surrounding areas is interested in dealing with the kind of situation that has happened to me. What does that say about them?.....And where does that leave people like me, faced with such frightening experiences? I cannot travel to another state or into NYC so that seriously leaves me with little to no options. I'm praying that the teaching hospital whose trauma ER attended to me on Friday night will prove helpful. I had actually been informed that no, would not see me UNLESS I WAS NOT BLEEDING....But my past experiences with several ENTs had left me underwhelmed, with my nasal issues not addressed...

I still worry about a possible growth of some kind, just as what happened to your husband. He is so fortunate to have had knowledgeable PROFESSIONALS who take responsibility instead of shrugging a patient off to someone else. Trust me when I say that the survey that I was sent to fill out for that 1st nasal bleeding episode, had my entire focused account of how incompetently and unprofessionally that ER had treated a 75 year old woman who was left unattended for periods of time and not allowed to have her husband to be with her..... Yes, I filed a complaint with the head of the ER department, along with a copy to the head of the hospital.

I have included your husband in my prayers, that he may get wonderful news this summer!

God bless you both, and again mil gracias for making time to write to me. You are appreciated, just as are the other members on this incredible site. 💝🙏🏽