You have GOT to be kidding me! We are currently in a room that has a shared door. I understand that this would be a GREAT situation for someone who had two kids in the hospital at the same but REALLY what are the chances of that? And could they not just reside in both sides of a SHARED room????? There seem to be plenty of those around here!!! We have been in the hospital now for 11 days… there was NO problem moving us from our comfy room when you needed it for a EKG. I did not even complain that they moved me to a room the size of a closet… My OCD self quietly cleaned and organized yet another room… but today has been the kicker. I SAW our favorite room being cleaned and SPECIFICALLY asked if we could move back. I have called the charge nurse two nights in a row as Kyleigh has been woken up hour after hour by SCREAMING kids (yes multiple ones) next door. One night they had 3-4 kids… and I understand they are in a BAD situation but what I do NOT understand is WHY over the course of TEN DAYS you cannot find ONE room to move me to that does not have a shared door especially when I KNOW that one was open today! Well that room was assigned to someone NEW coming in… FINE. Move THEM into here and move me over there… well then their admission time would have been bad… they are REALLY making an effort around here to admit as quickly as possible… REALLY? Because I seem to remember that less than a month ago we waited almost SEVEN hours to be admitted and have a room cleaned. Getting things cleaned around here seems to be a REAL issue. Maybe they need more housekeeping staff.. but either way I am not sitting around this room much longer.
I have sat in here day after day… Ky has missed naps and many hours of valuable sleep because the parent of the baby next door has to go SMOKE every hour and leaves the kid alone over there to scream its poor little head off. Ky is having surgery on Thursday… I am going to get pretty testy if she is being woken up hour after hour. All I am really saying is that they could have moved someone NEW in here … I have paid my dues in this room and I done. I am PISSED OFF and they are about to get this bull by the horns. I know there are tons of people who read this blog. If you are reading this and you have ANY influence at ALL at UK Hospital, please for the love of GOD call me in a favor and get me the HECK out of this room!!!!!!!!!! I am maxing out my Xanax in here!
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Oh Amber, I can commisserate. PCH has only shared rooms and they were once private rooms, so imagine the size! They are barely big enough to accomodate a chair next to the bed–and the curtain is against one side of the bed!
When we moved to the floor from the PICU, they moved us into a shared room that didn’t have anyone else yet–but I noticed the very room next door only had one bed, one TV–it was a little smaller than the other rooms and apparently they use it as a private room.
I asked if we could have it. No, it wasn’t cleaned yet. After I saw housekeeping leave, I asked again. No, they would then have to clean our room again and that wouldn’t be fair. Asked someone else, no it is already taken. It sat empty for THREE days–and then a new admit got it.
I was seething the whole time. Especially the day I had to take the other three kids in with me and couldn’t fit them in our room! Argh!!
Thinking of you–always!’
Michele
Amber I’m glad you’ll be able to get that G-tube for Ky- that should help take off a lot of pressure! Hopefully it means lots more time at home!!! I’ll pray things go smoothly tomorrow and you are home by Sunday! Hopefully you won’t go insane in the meantime!
We never get a shared room, and so never have to deal with this- the downside? Eithene is on PERMANENT contact precaustions, which mean she never is supposed to leave her room- NEVER. I tell them to forget it so they let her out in a stroller, but basically the months and t=months of hospital time she’s had the kid’s feet have never touched the floor. Probably why at 17.5 months she doesn’t walk…
Either way- it stinks, and frankly you are there enough they SHOULD give you a private room if its available! Try to hang on- you are doing a good job! Keep praying.
Jessica
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