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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Wow, that is shocking. I understand doctors need to see doctors too, but his appointment should have been scheduled on a not surgery day.
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Bingo. Unless it was an actual emergency for his own health, that appt. should have not been scheduled on the morning of a surgery. Doctors are usually behind, depending upon the patient load, and most are overbooked. He's a doctor and is well aware of this.

If he worked at my hospital, he'd have to answer for that, not just in terms of putting the patient in an unacceptable position -- but in terms of lost revenue for the OR. Surgeries bring in huge money, and there are many resources involved (anesthesiologists, nursing, radiology technicians, pharmacists, and many more).
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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SteveBrickNJ said:
You'll be amazed re. what I'm about to share.
My wife was in the bed that would be wheeled into the operating room. She'd gone through all the million questions, changed to the hospital gown, given the urine sample, had the I V drip in her arm.....ready to go.....then the head surgical nurse approached us and says that the surgeon is unable to make it. He is not present in the hospital!
He, the surgeon....will HIMSELF be operated on sometime in the future.....and HE..the SURGEON was at an appointment FOR HIMSELF at a location 20 miles north of the hospital my wife and I were in. HIS appointment to see his surgeon for a consult for himself was at 10:30am. THAT surgeon was running behind schedule. My wife's surgeon chose to stay there and be seen by his surgeon rather than reschedule for his personal visit and come down south 20 miles and perform my wife's surgery.
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SteveBrickNJ said:
The nurse that prepared my wife with the I V was amazed! How unprofessional. How thoughtless!
My wife asked the surgeon's staff to have the surgeon to call her and apologize/ explain. So far no such call has been received.
The surgery is supposedly rescheduled for tomorrow but we have to wait until 5pm for the hospital to call with the new time.
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That's unforgivable! I hope both of you are doing well this morning. Sending prayers and pixie dust all goes well. xoxo
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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SteveBrickNJ said:
The nurse that prepared my wife with the I V was amazed! How unprofessional. How thoughtless!
My wife asked the surgeon's staff to have the surgeon to call her and apologize/ explain. So far no such call has been received.
The surgery is supposedly rescheduled for tomorrow but we have to wait until 5pm for the hospital to call with the new time.
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If you need I have an extra "Rapunzel's Little helper" you can borrow;)
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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MouseDreaming said:
Our drama and the injuries go together. Our practice space is terribly inadequate. Admin thinks the girls are fine dancing on the concrete cafeteria floor with a very thin practice floor over it. It offers no shock absorption. 2 of 3 captains out with knee injuries, quite a few who didn't go out for competitive dance because of this. 13 made the team. 11 are dancing. This is very small for a team. No alternates this year, either.

And DD is home early, because they have no practice space today. I don't know how that even happens.

This is all just the tip of the iceberg.
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Sympathy like
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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MouseDreaming said:
Already been done and the short story is district referred it back to admin. Their position is they researched it and it is safe. Case closed. Move on. We have also done research. The people who sold the flooring were shocked when they heard how it was being used. Doctors notes, comments. Sadly, I don't think they are interested in changing anything until someone is seriously injured and there is a lawsuit.
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:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: and:brb:
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MinnieM123 said:
Don't think much of the Admin. people who think it's fine for the kids to dance on a concrete floor (with just a thin practice floor over it). That's one way to injure joints. And then for your DD to be sent home early, because there was no practice space today? I'd love to know what other sport took their practice space? Not knowing all the details here, my "impression" is that the dance activity is not being taken seriously at all by the school admin. people.
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Unfortunately, it's quite common that activities that are not the most popular sports (basketball, football) are not given adequate funding, facilities, time, etc. When I was in high school, in cheerleading, we were told we couldn't go to all the away games because the basketball team/football team didn't want us on the bus with them, but they wouldn't pay for a bus for just us. I don't remember any games we didn't get to go to in the end, BUT...one speech and debate tournament stands out...
We had a VERY small budget and most meets were far enough away that we had to stay overnight, so we also had hotel costs. We had gone to Powell and it was storming something terrible. We got there late at night....somewhere around 11 pm I think, and when we got to the hotel, we just wanted to sleep, but the hotel was so gross. There was "condemned" tape around the back of the office area...we don't know what happened, but our bus driver's husband worked with drug addicts and she said the hotel employee who did the checkin was high as a kite. We were told not to leave anything in the rooms during the day because there had been a lot of theft in the area. My brother's room had one lock, which was broken. Ours, on the other hand had something like 7....and knife marks in the door. Technically, there WAS a TV...but it didn't work. There was some sort of white powder on the floor, and footprints in it, leading us to believe they had not vacuumed. One of the beds had a huge wad of hair in it, so we called the front desk to ask them to come change the sheets. When the gal got there, she said she couldn't change the sheets...all the sheets they had were in use. But, never fear....she had brought a wet washcloth, which she used to wipe the hair off the sheet (onto one of the girls' leg) and then left. It was freezing because none of us dared to get under the covers after that!! There were no vacancies at any other hotels, so we had to stay put.
We spent the next day in rounds. We had packed up all our belongings even though we would be returning that night, and we didn't leave ANYTHING in the room....we double checked. So our bus driver....we had a tiny team, so we had one of those bread box buses that seats like....12 people. It was fixin' to be a blizzard and the tournament was at the community college, so everything was spread out in different buildings. Our bus driver drove us from one building to the next, picking up kids from other schools who were walking because it was such bad weather....the whole thing should have been canceled. So we get back to the hotel that night, enter our room to find a pair of socks on the floor that had not been there when we left, and did not belong to any of us. It seems they may have been renting out the room by the hour during the day, which would explain why they told us to clear out the room, AND why there was hair in the bed. Just....so disgusting. But that's the only place we could afford with our budget of $40 per night per room and there was nothing anywhere else, regardless.
We finished the tournament and started to drive home. Everyone had eaten lunch at the taco johns except me, because I'm picky and wouldn't eat tacos. One girl ate a bunch. We got to Sheridan and stopped to eat at a JBs. This girl started feeling sick. We ended up in the ER because she got food poisoning. (everyone but me got sick the next day) The weather was getting really bad, we didn't know how long we would be there, the highway department had said no unnecessary travel, but our principal refused to pay for another night in a hotel and said we needed to come home. The girl is released from the hospital and we were sent on our way, into a blizzard, on a twisty windy road in the Bighorn mountains. Food poisoning girl had a trashbag, and the bus driver was white-knuckled....you couldn't see 10 feet in front of the bus. But the basketball team got to stay overnight in Douglas in a holiday in. There were 20 of them, 9 of us, they were closer to home, had NO ONE sick, and the weather in that area wasn't nearly as bad. But they got to stay, and we had to come home. By the time we got to Gillette, they had closed the road behind us....we were already on it, but they closed it right behind us, so when we got to Gillette, we had to stop. But...the principal was not happy and gave us a miniscule budget for a hotel that night. And because of the storm, the heat was out. My brother and I were the only ones who had blankets with us, and we had snacks....everyone else was starving. But at least we were safe and it was clean. We slept 7 girls in 1 room, all huddled up, the 2 boys in the other room. While the boys on the basketball team got to stay in a nice holiday Inn.
Administrators just don't seem to care about any activities except the ones that are very public and bring them recognition, in my experience. Our parents were all livid that he had endagered our lives to save some money, but what could they do at that point? It was done. And he was tenured and hard to get rid of. But if it's not an award winning team that they can take credit for, they would rather not "waste" any money on things like....dance floors, or mats, etc. Our school had no auditorium and our plays and musicals and band/choir concerts were held in the cafeteria or the gym. The district didn't want to spend the money for an auditorium for a small school. New uniforms for the cheerleaders? Nope....use the ones from 15 years ago or buy your own...the basket ball boys don't like the ones we got them last year, so the money is for them.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MinnieM123 said:
Curious -- trying to figure out the above. Is this in reference to a holiday, or a fireworks celebration or something?
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Wasn't it something about Illuminations stopping and being replaced? A lot of people are watching it now while they still can....I just figured she was there watching it before it goes away....time's ticking, and the show she's watching finished. That was my interpretation, but I could be wrong.
 

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