So this is great Chinese food diner in Fort Lauderdale that we like to visit. It’s called Pei Wei. You have to try it sometime. It’s right up there with PF Changs!
In fact it’s owned by the same people. It’s really really good.
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:
Then once inside during surgery:
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.
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?
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.
Well, I have fought the blogosphere for ever…and now I am finally joining the ranks. I have done nothing but indulge this medium due to work, but it seems as if blogging is here to stay and believe it or not…does make sense as a place to do exactly what I am doing now.
So I will use this domain to discuss more of my personal life. Not too intimately of course, but enough for me to share the important things to me in my life, with friends, family and anyone who cares to peek into my world.