ER more like better hope you don t need urgent car...

ER more like better hope you don t need urgent care. There is no urgent care here. If you read my obituary next week this hospital killed me by not seeing me in over 5 hours.

Edit and update: They finally took me back after I nearly passed out because I could not take full breath.

This was after midnight, I'd arrived around 6 pm.

Multiple times during my stay the "paperwork" on my situation got confused and they came to draw blood extra times. Keep in mind I'm dehydrated so this was very painful.

A nurse misunderstood the response from another department about a test and told me it was delayed 4 hours (it wasn't) and that there was nothing she could do as I cried because it was going on over 24 hours with no fluid intake and no saline drip and I wasn't allowed water even (I'd just throw it up)

I finally got iv fluids at 7pm the day after checking in. When I hadn't kept down water or had any for over 24 hours.

This is truly the worst experience I've ever had in an ER.

I can't blame the staff there, as there had to be about 3 total to deal with all 40 rooms each shift. I blame whoever budgets and schedules for the ER. We literally have the longest wait times in the country. If you can wait for a walk in clinic, and aren't going to die from asphyxiation, I'd suggest going there instead.

The departments other than the Emergency Department are fine. They just do not have enough people in the Emergency Department, and the number crunchers doing that do not care.