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So, I have a lot to catch up on. At the moment, its 4 AM here in Fort Lauderdale and I find myself here in Memorial Regional Hospital South with my beautiful wife. In the 10 years we’ve been together, I’ve never seen here in the kind of pain she is enduring due to severe Sciatica. Now this has been going on now Since Dec. 26th 2011, the day after her mother went into the hospital at Imperial Point Medical Center. We choose to NOT be in a hospital the hospital right now so soon after losing Brandy’s mother to nursing home neglect, and of course then being ignored in an ICU at the hospital she was in to the point that they just let her die…and watched it while it happened.

We watched wrongful death happen while begging the nurses to PLEASE call a doctor…any doctor…to no avail.?So you can understand our apprehension in having to bring Brandy to a hospital within 2 weeks of the above issue occurring while we tried to help save her mom. As her mom went into a Code Blue and began to fail…Brandy had already informed all the nurses and the doctors that she wanted to hold her mother in her arms and help her pass from this world. So as the Code was called…and they began CPR and making the attempts to revive her mother…Brandy realized that this was the moment and that her mother was not going to make. So in the moment with a rush of adrenaline, she launched herself over the bed rails…and into the bed with her mother…further injuring an old herniated disk. Her mother did not make it as they called her time of death in the wee hours of the morning at 1:55 a.m. on Jan. 2nd, 2012.

So for the past two weeks, the Sciatica continued to worsen…to the point that on Jan. 11th, 2012 a mere 6 days after burying her mother, the Sciatica became so severe that she was unable to walk anymore…and began trying to crawl to get around. Just getting to the restroom became an impossible task, requiring me to at times, carry her to her destination.

We now have taken Brandy to Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, avoiding the place where the nurses just let her mother die…only to be told that albeit she was in very severe pain…that the ONLY way they would treat her…was if she came in paralyzed. So they gave her a shot for pain (good for 4 hours) and sent her home. Obviously they want to charge us a few thousand dollars for that visit…but turned us away without finding out what the problem is…or ensuring that she received proper treatment.

Which now brings us to my rant right here in Memorial Regional Hospital South where the nurses will yell at you. That’s right, my wife was just yelled at by her nurse (Margaret – 4th Floor) because she felt she had done everything possible to help my wife. This nurse would then proceed to tell her that she would get her pillows to help make her comfortable…and after 25 mins., came back with 1 small pillow decrying they were full when the floor itself has rooms blocked off as being clean and ready for new patients. Couldn’t they borrow a pillow or two from these empty rooms until they need those rooms…and find pillows from them when they actually get real patients.

Then to try and treat her in the ER, they shoot her numerous times with Dilaudid (3X over 6 hours), when that wouldn’t work as she would scream in pain…I asked them to try Morphine instead to see if her body would respond to that pain killer instead. No dice. They said they would give her some flexeril for the spasms in her left leg where the Sciatica was giving her such severe pain. Did they give it to her in the ER…no.
Then when we got to the room, not only did her nurse get brusque with my wife…but she actually barked at her…and even said she’s never done that to a patient before. Now, I don’t know where you’re from…but that’s just wrong to have a nurse do that to you when you are in extreme pain. Yet there’s more…

After giving her the hardest pain killers that a hospital can give, the attending doctor has them give her a Percoset and an Ambien. Now, everyone else at the other hospitals were quite concerned with mixing Ambien with Dilaudid or Morphine as they were fearful of her breathing too shallow due to the narcotics being mixed with a sleeping pill. Yet Memorial Regional Hospital South tee’d her up to try and knock her out so as to try and shut her up…

They told her (as I sat and listened to this), at 3:15 a.m., that she would be due for a dose of Morphine in 30 mins, at 3:45…the nurse (Margaret) showed up 45 mins late knowing full well she was in severe pain.
Ask for some extra pillow to try and use to wedge them around Brandy’s body to help make her comfortable, that took her over an hour and a half to deliver that. I asked for bathroom access to help my wife get to so she could use it for numerous reasons (one being for her monthly visitor to freshen herself up), they never cleared out the space to allow us to do that. So we had to get a wheelchair to wheel my wife 1 hallway over to find a family restroom so she could tend to her business.

Now, if you’d like to enjoy some of the bullshit and listen to just one of the conversations regarding care from this nurse at this hospital that is seemingly cutting corners at the expense of the patient while we get stuck with a bill that can’t be argued…well just take a listen to this: Nurse Montgomery’s Excuses

So let’s Sunday, October 27th…was unlike any other day really. We got up and did a couple things around the house and then crawled into the car and headed down south towards Miami to go to the Miami Jewish Health System. We head down there on Sundays to visit Brandy’s Mom. So after Brandy had to once again call the doctors staff out for NOT paying attention to the other doctors orders on her moms charts to help keep her mother off the drug Seroquel which has been linked to sudden death in Alzheimer’s patients.

We know her body does NOT react well to the Seroquel…we’ve proven that to her current Doctor.

Now how does any of this have to do with my title???

Well, the day we take Beverly out, she was indeed off the Seroquel, so she had her balance…her equilibrium. Something we all tend to take for granted. We took her to go walking at Gulf stream park to the shops and get some exercise for her while getting her outdoor with some fresh air.

So if was quite a day as we felt somewhat vindicated seeing her improvement after removing her from Seroquel.

We get home from South Beach at a reasonable hour, but I’m not feeling all that well, at all. Now, it takes a lot to really know me down, so I was a tad concerned, and bed time rolls around with me feeling not quite myself.  1 am rolls around with me rolling around in quite a bit of pain. So I got up so I wouldn’t wake Brandy up with my tossing around in the bed in pain.

It was a miserable feeling and experience and as daylight rolled around Brandy came in to find me in pretty severe pain. So we were off to see my family doctor, who is a really good General Practitioner. After getting some blood work underway, an x-ray and physical exam, the doc was pretty convinced that I had something going on with my gall bladder.

After calling in a specialist he uses to come into the office and do an ultrasound, they were able to find a 1 CM Gall Stone lodged in the neck of my Gall Bladder. Not a good thing to have going on. The doc said we didn’t have much choice, except WHICH hospital to take me to. So after 7+ hours in the ER at Broward General Hospital, I was admitted…truth is, Monday’s are quite busy for emergency rooms as I’m told people prefer not to waste their weekend sitting in an E.R., so they wait until Monday morning.

So upon getting a bed, admitted and moved into a room…the admitting Doctor came by to see me and inform me of what was wrong with me…so here goes the short list of big problems:

• 1 CM Gall Stone Lodged in the Neck of my Gall Bladder
• Pancreatitis as exacerbated by a diseased Gall Bladder
• White Blood Cell Count through the roof
• Lipase levels over 11,000 (Normal is 200-300)

Then once inside during surgery:

• Discovered what the doctor described as a very angry Gall Bladder confirming all they had found in per-op tests
• Then they discovered that I was on my way to a hernia as well, so they had to repair that as well

All in all, I have to thank my family doctor for his astute diagnosis and recommendations for handling my emergency.

I would also like to thank Dr. Ronald E. Moore M.D. and his assistant Resident at Broward General Hospital Dr. Sherwood.

I will be writing a very important follow-up piece regarding, in my opinion, patient abuse by an “on call” doctor by the name of Dr. Yvette Levy M.D. From the bed I was lying in, the experience was not only disturbing, verbally abusive by the doctor and before all was said and done with just ahead of my discharge what I would describe as physical abuse as well. Patient abuse is something that’s very serious and you as a patient have rights and need to know how to handle yourself in these situations.

I will be filing formal charges with the medical board, hospital, the state…anywhere and everywhere I have to, to keep anything like this from happening to another patient. Patient Advocacy is something that Broward General Hospital says they are proud to be a part of and that they take this seriously. I will chronicle all of the details of both the patient abuse incident as well as the actions taken by the hospital and ultimately what happens to this abusive doctor.

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This post is written as what happened to me with my illness, and the actions taken against me by Dr. Yvette Levy which in my opinion was physically & verbally abusive.

So Brandy and I got a call from one of the fine gents that was my former lead developer in Boulder, Colorado. He’s one heck of a guy…like a brother to me.

Anyway, I hadn’t heard from him in awhile, we even came into NYC where he lives and I was calling up every day to try and catch up.  No dice…as you can imagine, my messages got crazier & crazier as they went. Anyway, outta the blue…I get a call from him telling me of his 40 days at Sea.  He had flown to Finland with a crew of people to work on the technology to install SMART Plasmas (300 of them) all over the vessel. So they had just pulled into port here in Fort Lauderdale and had a weeks work let to top of issues with the ship before they begin running revenue passengers.

So we got the phone call that he could day pass us for sure, but have a bag packed standing by because they were about to do the inaugural sailings which would have us overnighting onboard. So at the 11th hour, we get a text telling us we’ve been manifested and need to get to the post as fast as possible. Once we got there, it was an amaizing experience. Period. Everything about this Ship is to be admired.

We had a wonderful time and would go back in a heart beat…and guess what…we did!  That’s right, we were hanging with RCCL management when the idea popped up as we were on the 1st inaugural cruise and being invited to just stay aboard for the 2nd cruise. You gotta love it when everything is comped, its cheaper to go cruise…than stay at home. So cruise we did.

Oasis of the Seas is more cruise ship than you can imagine. But I can tell you, there’s something for everybody on board.

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The beauty of it, once our first inaugural was done, management invited us to stay on for the 2nd inaugural cruise as well. So we ended up with a 5 day/ 4 night cruise aboard the worlds largest cruise ship before the rest of the world gets to pile on and ransack that boat! It was magical. You must try it.

Well, its that time again. We are headed to Los Angeles on Monday for Affiliate Convention II at the Hyatt Regency Century City Plaza. 

I’m quite excited to be Interviewing Danny Sullivan for our opening Keynote and of course watching everyone come in for Day one of one heck of a line-up of educational sessions. Then at 9:30 pm at The Aqua Restaurant & Lounge we’ll be hosting Affiliate Bash with an Exclusive concert by Shock G of Digital Underground. We’ll be doing the Humpty Dance that night for sure. 

Then Day 2 kicks off with another exciting day of sessions with a Keynote being delivered by Tim Ash. He had some an amazing reaction in Denver, we thought we’d bring him back for more.

We have some special surprises in store as well…so keep your eyes peeled on the Affiliate Convention Social Site. 

Hope to see you there!

Ok, so it’s true. We went to Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2009. We had a pleasant surprise of having our party that Brandy and I created, Search Bash, move from the last night of the conference to the first night since Google decided not to do its annual infamous. So we were on the trade show floor in Denver at our very own conference, Affiliate Convention, when we got the call telling us of this wonderful challenge.

Organizing a Search Bash is always challenging and fun, but one where you have no idea how many people may come and in such a short time frame to pull off a unique theme. This is the big task, as we’ve always done crazy themes. See pic below:

Rain at The Palms Hotel & Casino where Search Bash took place.

We took some amazing pics and thought I should share, this was back in November, but I just tripped across them and figured why not post them:

The big screen rolling our awesome video promo loop!

The Entertainment from the air was spectacular!

I can say this, without all the great help within the WebmasterRadio.FM community and of course our dedicated staff and crew and sponsors, these events would not be possible.

Thanks to you all for your contributions to making these events possible.

Kayla Danielle Babin, a daughter I am very proud of turned 16 on Sunday. I wanted to post this then, but I’ve been trying to unplug on the weekends for obvious reasons.

However, this is a momentus occasion. This doesn’t happen more than once in a little girls life, its a once in a lifetime thing. I have an amazing little girl who is blossoming into a beautiful young lady. Kayla, your dad is very proud of you. I may be 1200+ miles from you, but know 1 thing. Above all things, you’re always in your dads heart and I miss you more than you will ever know.

Happy Birthday my wonderful daughter…I love you!

Ever have a day that you just equate with Monday? The day when the week starts all over again, the repetitive tasks and focusing & being “on” is just not what one looks forward to. What can I say, today was one of those days.  Last night the flu bug hit me and I’ve been updating my site & plugins while getting the new WMR themes and modules set. All great, I am just now ready for a vacation…because even though its Thursday, it felt like Monday…but with Friday being on deck…its not hopeful I will complete the tasks I set up to get done quite yet this week.

I suppose that means once I get through the weekend, I’ll be doing as the rest of the world will be…heading back into Monday!   lol Is it me, or did I just make a circle?

So I thought I would show you folks what Denver looked like. I think our inaugural show got off to a great start…what do you think?

It was one kick ass show. Thanks to everyone who helped up pull off an amazing first show. We look forward to L.A. in Dec.

I gotta say, I’ve done some other shows with an affiliate focus like Affiliate Summit, and a few others, but I think the atmosphere in Denver was perfect for this first time event. For us it was an adventure. However, we just dove in head first and when it came time to ride the bull we rode the whole 8 seconds.

The educational sessions were packed, cudos to Tim Ash on an amazing job. To all our speakers, moderators, exhibitors, sponsors, and media partners…it would not have been possible. We thank you all.

We look forward to seeing you for Affiliate Convention in Los Angeles this December.

After not seeing Jerry or Jane for is about 3 weeks, they came back from a long trip thru south america. We enjoyed dinner and heard stories of the trip while of course all making sure that being a proper advocate for Bev was a necessity. So long nite of playing catch up, so tired and off to bed.