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@eileena
So sorry to hear you had insufficient time to recover. You are right about living one day at a time. A NDE certainly makes one reflect on the priorities of one's life. Funny the comments about you being a priority! Unfortunately there are few who truly understand NDE and many who feel it is mumbo jumbo. Guess one has to experience it to know it. My husband was sceptical until it happened not once, but twice to him. He has a very strong faith might I add.
Trust your recovery is moving in the right direction. My husband has what he calls 'dusty' days, when things are not going so well. He always tells me he is 'good!'. I can see in his body language that he is NOT, so bless him.
Hugs to you. X
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When I saw my cardiologist after I went back for my 2 week check up I mentioned the problematic fellow to him and his response was that nurses are not to make the decisions about care, doctors are the decision makers.
Also, the second night I was in ICU the assigned nurse spent most of her time with a more interesting patient and each time the alarm sounded off and I rang to get her to come as the particular machine even registered that I had no heart beat (alarming to say the least, I began to wonder if I had died and no one told me) She would eventually come, but after the 4th time I called for her the ID10T put my call button up on a shelf above my head and no way could I reach it AND she turned off the monitor instead of calling someone from the department that could have brought another of those monitors to replace the defective one.
When I checked out (the 8th day of my entire stay) the head floor nurse came to check if my stay had been good, I let her know about the assigned nurse from the second night. Needless to say she got this absolutely pissed look on her face and attempted to reassure me that would NEVER happen to another patient. I'm not sure but, due to the reputation this hospital has, I'd bet that the assigned nurse on the 2nd night was on the unemployment lines the next week.