Jinxed's blog: "Pray for Jessie"

So this surgery was to remove all the lymph nodes under Jessie's right arm.Jessie's appt. was for 1:30 but we had to be there 2 hrs early for prep.She wasnt allowed to eat or drink after midnight the night be4.So she made sure she ate around 9 the previous night. We arrived at Magee where the surgery was taking place at 11 am.At around 1 pm Jess is getting pissed cuz she is hungry and the other people in the waiting room re bringing in food to eat while they wait for their family.They still hadnt taken her back to pre-op.At 2:30 not only is Jess pissed but so am I. They still hadnt called us back and I understand the Dr could have got held up but nobody informed us of anything.I went to the reception desk and complained and the woman called the pre-op and said,and I quote,"you need to come get this patient as her mother is being a bitch"! Pre-op did come and get us and I could hear the nurses bitcing about it.The nurse comes in around 3 to start an IV and collapsed to of Jessie's veins due to her being dehydrated.Mind you she hadnt eaten or had a drink in 18 hrs.So the nurse says that she would have anethesia do the IV and they would be in. At 4 I asked where the dr was and the nurse says I told you he would be in I just didnt tell u when.By now Im fuming.Finally the Dr comes in around 4:15.He actually asked me if he had me sign the permission slip in the previous surgeries or if Jess signed them.She is 13!!! The surgery took about 30 min. and the Dr came and told me all went well and I would be able to see her in about 30 minutes.This was 5pm.At 6:15 I got worried.I still hadnt seen her and nobody was telling me anything.Finally they called me back at 6:30.As I am sitting with her my cell rings and it is the nurses telling me I can go see Jess.When I said I was sitting with her she says"oh we came and got you already"?WTF is up with that? Finally at 7:15 we are getting ready to leave.The nurse then tries to explain the discharge instructions to my daughter instead of me.I said she is a minor and you speak to me not her!!! Another thing I noticed was there was only one child there to be operated on and that was Jess.She needed nurses who deal with kids not adults! And finally the worst part was on my way home! My cell phone rings and it is the hospital.The nurse wants to know which room Jess is in and where I am at.When I tell her Jess is in my car and I am on my way home the nurse asked...Oh we did her surgery already?...Are you serious!!! No communication whatsoever!!! I told her Dr that we would never be back to that hospital and we would be going directly through Hillman in the future!!