"jmcquown" <
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> On 8/30/2020 5:27 AM, Gary wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/29/2020 6:05 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "John Kuthe" <
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>>>>> For I am a Vegetarian! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>
>>>> Last time I was in the hospital, they put me on the "Heart Smart" diet
>>>> despite my Dr. telling them not to. I don't have heart problems and I
>>>> had low sodium. They wouldn't allow me to have any cheese.
>>>>
> "Last time I was in the hospital, they put me on the "Heart Smart" diet
> despite my Dr. telling them not to. I don't have heart problems and I
> had low sodium. They wouldn't allow me to have any cheese."
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If Julie wasn't supposed to be on the "Heart Smart" diet why the heck
> didn't she say "Hey! This is *not* what the doctor ordered"? As for
> Carol, yes, if they forgot to feed her four times why didn't she speak up?
> Julie gets some latitude for being wacky. But Carol? I don't expect
> military personnel to be wimpy.
I did! But it went nowhere. Every time I've been in the hospital, the Dr,
just tells me to have someone bring me in food.
I don't know if you've been in the hospital or not but here, the right hand
doesn't seem to know what the left hand is doing. Once, they refused to give
me a diet lemon lime soda because I had a citrus allery. AFAIK there is no
such thing as a citrus allergy but somehow they put it in my chart and
refused to take it off. I wound up getting the dietiician to come to my
room. That only muddied the waters further.
Another time, I used my Ipad to diagnose Red Man's syndrome. It happens when
Vancomycin via and IV gets into your system too quickly. They didn't want to
believe at first. Finally they came in. Said I was right. Swapped it out for
Penicillin. I then went into anwphalxic shock. Again, they wouldn't belive
me. I finally laid on the buzzer, screaming for a supervisor. When she
finally came in, she was like... OMG! That's when I found out I was allergic
to penicillin.
Another time, they had no menu. A burly woman kept demanding, "Just tell me
what you want!" Everything I asked for, they didn't have. I finally tried a
hamburger patty and green beans. That, they had. I couldn't chew the green
beans though. My mom tried one and said it must have been around since the
1940's.
When you're in the hospital, it's not like being in a hotel. You're pretty
much trapped in a bed, often stuck there with an IV asnd at other people's
mercy.
>
> I had to have emergency surgery back in 1993. I hadn't eaten in two days
> so you can bet I was hungry. After checking on me around 7:00 the next
> morning the doctor said she'd have them bring me some breakfast. I waited
> and waited but no one brought me any food. As Noon approached with still
> nothing to eat you can bet my finger was on that call button. (Not a bad
> meal when it finally arrived, either. Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast with
> butter, orange juice and coffee. Not "heart smart" but hey, I wasn't
> there for heart problems.) I polished it off and when the nurse came back
> to take the tray she said, "You really *were* hungry!* Duh.
Okay, I guess you were in the hospital. You wouldn't get that in a hospital
here, these days. They serve Egg Beaters, margarine, and chicken sausage. No
bacon.
People with diabetes and other medical conditions just get put on the heart
smart diet here. I don't know why.