9-6-08
Yesterday Morning i started having some cramping and some spotting and so i told my fiancee that if it continued i would go to the hospital. I went to the bathroom around 4pm and there was more blood, so i grab my cousin and off we go to the hospital. Well i get there and there is nowhere to park. They are soooo busy that theres not even anywhere to sit in the waiting room. They brought me into triage and told me that there was 12 people ahead of me that had priority because they had chest pains, and that people were coming off of ambulances like crazy. I asked them if they could possibly take me to minor emergency or up on the labor and delivery floor, or even just check on the baby real quick. I told them i didnt care if i had a room because i was worried that i might be having a miscarrage and i just wanted to make sure my baby was ok. They proceeded to tell me that l&d wont take you untill your atleast 21 weeks pregnant and that even if i was having a miscarrage there was nothing they could do for me untill they got me a room and all the other people had to go first. So upset and cramping i go and sit in the waiting room for 5 hours.
While in the waiting room I saw the craziest things happen. There was this one lady who had 9 seziers in just a couple hours and they wouldnt even take her back. They told her to lay down on the floor and not get up because the chest pain and ambulences had to go first. There was this other girl that came in and her name was erin. she was going thru the same thing i was going thru, but she was only 9 weeks. Then there was this guy who was like 15 yrs old and he was there because he threatened the school councelor to kill himself. I was told that even HE was going before me. I was sooo mad! I was kinda rude to him after sitting there with him for 5 hours having him constantly try to talk to me. Eventually i was like... if i gave you a razor would you kill yourself? he says no! i said well then you need to go the fuck home because if you were really gonna kill yourself you would do it and not be here. He said i have tried to kill myself. i cut myself before and he showed my his arm. little bitty scratches. I had to call his bullshit. I was like dude if you were gonna kill yourself you wouldnt be doing that. you would take a razor and cut hard and deep all the way down your arm! Those little scratches on your arms are just attention cuts and you need to cut that shit out cuz it just makes you look even more stupid!
Well anyways after 5 hours of sitting there i go up to them and ask how many people are still ahead of me? They tell me that there is now 24 people ahead of me and 5 ambulences, and that it could be atleast another 6-7 hours!!! I was sooo mad. I called another hospital on the northside of atlanta to see what their wait time was, and the lady told me that if i came up there then they would do a ultrasound and bloodwork in triage and i wouldnt have to wait on a room to make sure the baby is ok. So after wasteing almost 6 hrs at the other hospital i get ready to leave and go to piedmont hospital in atlanta. The girl named erin asked me where i was going and i told her. She got another lady to follow me and drive her up to piedmont too. It took us about 45 min to get there and we get signed in and they go to take my blood. now mind you i HATE having my blood taken! She sticks me in my underside of my wrist and it hurt sooooooooooooooo bad! She moved it all around and couldnt get any blood, so she stuck me in my other arm and took 6 things of blood. I eventually got to go down to my ultrasound and the baby looked great. I was hoping since i was past 17 weeks i might be able to see if it was a boy or girl, but the baby was upside down and all you could see was butt and spine haha. oh well not a big deal i can wait 3 more weeks.
Feeling a bit better knowing the baby is alive and well i go back up to the waiting room and wait for them to give me my own room. After about 2 hours the lady comes over to me and says that she needs more blood. I honestly thought she was kidding because she had already stuck me twice and why could she possibly need more than 6 tubes. Well she wasnt kidding!! aparently my other blood had clotted before they could test it! UGHHH so she takes 6 more tubes of my blood and they put my into a room. After a long wait and around 6am the doctor comes in to tell me my placenta came apart from the wall a little bit and that i am now on strict bed rest but other than that everything is fine! I asked about Erin and they told me that she had lost her baby! I felt soo bad for her and offered my condolences before i left and drove 45 min back home.
IT WAS THE WORST HOSPITAL VISTIT EVER (13 HOURS) BUT THANK GOD MY BABY IS OK!
