"I was there for only one night. I came in Tuesday at 5 am and left Wednesday night about 6:30.
The good: beautiful, clean, modern facility. I was impressed with all of those things. I also like the pager system of keeping us on top of when we were need where etc. everyon in the morning arrival period was friendly, quick and professional. The techs and nurses in Pre op were great and explained everything very clearly. Dr. Kim ran behind on his surgery and I was in that area longer than I expected. I loved that afterwards in the room my family had a walled off area within my room to sleep, eat, watch TV and hang out, but they could hear me if I needed them. We had some kind of suite that wasn't the way all the rooms were, so we lucked out there for sure.
The bad: it seemed like the nurse and techs took forever to get meds, etc. That was really awful when I waited on pain meds for over an hour once. But the worst thing was an overnight tech I had who came to do my vitals. She slapped the cuff on me and I measured something like 205 over 170. I do not have high BP nor did I have any symptoms of it. She looked at me weird and took it again, kept getting similarly scary reads. But the worst part was the look she kept giving me...wide eyes and frightened, yet had no words for me. It really pissed me off more than it scared me. So began the evening of doing me with stuff to bring it down which seemed to do little good. Well, shift change and enter a different tech. She looks at the band and says, " I have no idea why she used THIS band on you." she gets a new one and I am like 150 over 90. This is elevated for me but much more what they expect. Yeah, so NOT impressed with night tech lady at all. Ugh.
Wednesday monrning I thought I might finally get to rest after having some tests done. That might have been possible except for the jack hammering and banging on the window and wall right below our window. That lasted for over four hours. I couldn't wait to go home at that point, just to rest.
The only other bad thing happened to my family and was more their perception that an actual issue. When my surgery was wrapping up they were asked to go in a little room and Dr. Kim would be there to talk to them. Well, it was about 15 minutes before he came in. It was long enough for all four of my family member to worry to death why they'd been brought to a room, etc. They should have been told I was alright and that would have fixed that. They were super relieved when Dr. Kim came in and said I was fine and he expected me to do very well."
