PS:  IT’S OUR ANNIVERSAY…..8 YEARS!!!!!!!

 

Got to the hospital around 10:30.  Vikki is clearly not herself.  She is heavily medicated. She pulled out her PICC line last night. She was extremely restless and agitated. Her heart rate and blood pressure were at alarming levels.  This morning, she does not recognize me and does not respond when I try to get her attention.  I don’t think she even knows who I am this morning.

 

The doctors finally made rounds. The new ICU attending is a pompous, arrogant SOB…..he just confirmed my opinion that these guys are running a factory with no personal concern for the patient.  He dismissed or interrupted every question I asked. He contradicted what the doctors before him have said, and dismissed me when I tried to get him to explain.

 

Now, they are worried about spots that showed up on xray….plan to do broncoscopy this afternoon.  Magically, they aren’t worried about the fluid around here lungs (that the prior team WAS worried about) and magically, they now say her pancreas issue has been resolved (I need to hear that from GI since they are supposed to be managing that treatment).

 

The care coordinator had arranged the care conference I requested for this afternoon, but I had them cancel. There is no point in getting in the room again with this guy…..he is the epitome of an arrogant world class jerk.  Trying to have an interactive dialogue with him would be a waste of time, and it would probably make me even more frustrated than I am now.

 

Unfortunately, we are stuck here and stuck with this jerk for the next two weeks.  If I could move her, I would certainly try to figure out how.