Apr 23

“You Have Ketones In Your Urine. You Should Be Eating.”

“You have ketones in your urine. You should be eating.” – ER nurse to mother after hooking her up to an External Fetal Monitor for eight hours without allowing food or liquids.

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Heidi had this to say, Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:08 pm (Quote)

Wow! Was this said in a critical way, or in a “let’s change course” way?

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JOANNA had this to say, Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:26 pm (Quote)

SIWell, this nurse is correct about that metabolic chemestry, that is exactly what I would say to a client. Of course I wouldn’t have starved her to begin with!

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Jadzia@Toddlerisms had this to say, Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:42 pm (Quote)

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. My faaaaavorite mind game.

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Tee had this to say, Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:46 pm (Quote)

Common sense dictates that going without food or water for eight hours is a very bad plan, especially if you’re growing a human being inside your body. Just saying…

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Sheva Reply:
April 23rd, 2012 at 6:05 pm Sheva(Quote)

Well, common sense must be one of the options you have to special order nowadays, because the standard model doesn’t seem to come with it automatically.

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Kristin had this to say, Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:55 pm (Quote)

Great! I’d like a club sandwich with a pickle spear on the side, some cheese crackers with peanut butter, an orange, some strawberry yogurt, maybe some granola bars, oh, what the hay, how about some chocolate ice cream too. I’m famished!

What? You weren’t offering to get me something to eat? Then WHY did you mentioned I needed to? Were you just trying to be cruel?

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cathi had this to say, Apr 23, 2012 @ 2:09 pm (Quote)

Even prisoners get treated better than that! Duh! Let the woman go for cryin’ out loud! And bring her a steak! And a glass of wine(won’t hurt and would probably help after 8 hrs tied to a bed! )I would love to hear the end result of this from the OP

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amanda Reply:
April 23rd, 2012 at 7:29 pm amanda(Quote)

i remember crying and telling one of the nurses that prisoners had more rights than their patients. i was a high risk pregnancy and in hospital for several weeks before the birth and routinely on iv only for 3 or 4 days – when i would really start to complain someone would actually ask the doc if i could drink again and they would be suprised i wasn’t as they totally forgot they had said i couldn’t. prisoners are allowed to have basic rights like showers, clothing that covers their a$$ and food and water…

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Amanda had this to say, Apr 23, 2012 @ 4:06 pm (Quote)

This one is mine, too. I ended up in the ER because of chest pains and breathing trouble when I was about 35 weeks pregnant with my first. (In hindsight, I think it was a nasty panic attack, but I didn’t recognize the symptoms as that at the time and was panicked.)

When I got to the ER at about 11pm, I had already gone two hours without eating and was famished. I went to take a drink out of my water bottle and was admonished. They hooked me up to a fetal monitor, turned off the lights, and closed the door. DH and I sat in a room lit only by the EFM screen until he finally found a switch to turn on an overhead light. Several times the EFM beeped loudly and they would eventually come in, annoyed, and readjust it. Eventually one of them just turned the volume all the way down without readjusting it or saying a word, and slammed the door behind her.

There was a vending machine that DH went to for a Coke but they didn’t have any snacks. They gave him the evil eye when he got the Coke and he had to explain that it was for him, but he shared it with me once he got back. I lay there for eight hours with the only sustenance being a few sips of Coke.

FINALLY, after hours of being hungry and agonizing over what was going on, a nurse came in and said the only problem they found with my screens was a high level of ketones and admonished me again for not eating.

After this experience, I switched to another doctor’s office in a closer town because I never wanted to be in that same hospital again!

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Dreamy Reply:
April 23rd, 2012 at 8:12 pm Dreamy(Quote)

Jerkasses!

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Vy Reply:
April 24th, 2012 at 1:27 pm Vy(Quote)

Idiots! (I say that a lot.)

I’m so sorry you had to lay there for eight hours. I can’t even image.

My doctor kept me in the waiting room once for two hours, then ordered a blood draw and sent me directly to the (affiliated) lab. The tech commented on how her job would have been easier if I made sure to drink more water next time. I had to hold myself in check, and very politely explained WHY I was dehydrated and assured her I wasn’t looking forward to walking around with that gigantic elbow bruise for the next two weeks. -.-

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lilmrsmchenry had this to say, Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:04 pm (Quote)

Good. Make me a sammich woman!

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jenni Reply:
April 24th, 2012 at 5:10 am jenni(Quote)

yeah!

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Jespren had this to say, Apr 24, 2012 @ 4:55 am (Quote)

Grr! Stupid docs just love problems they create don’t they?

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Your Name had this to say, May 1, 2012 @ 5:27 am (Quote)

27 hours into active labor I kicked the OB out of my room because he refused to let me eat… got myself some food and forced them to turn down my epi (that they made me need because they physically hurt me) baby was born in 45 min even though the baby wasn’t gonna be ready for “Several hours”

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Sheva Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 5:54 am Sheva(Quote)

You rock! What did you do that made them turn it down? I can’t figure that one out.

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