Cheyenne Sioux

Review of Cullman Regional Medical Cente...

I was having problems with an IV and I asked them ...

I was having problems with an IV and I asked them to take it out (they were not using it and had not used it) The tape was burning my skin and the needle felt like it was in a tendon, even though the IV was in my arm close to my elbow I could feel it in my fingers. They wouldn't take the IV out but they did change the plastic bandage that was holding it on which didn't help at all. I asked them several times during the night to take it out and told them that if they needed to put another one in they could when it was needed but they wouldn't. After having that plastic burn my arm all night, by the time the sun come up I was sitting and rocking because the pain was so bad. i asked them again to take it out and they wouldn't so I took it out and when I did there was no blood so obviously they missed the vein or went through it. The nurse got angry because I took it out. She wanted to take my temperature from under my arm (I had some water to drink)and I didn't get a shower the night I was admitted so I would not let them and the nurse got angry about that, I am not going to let anyone do something like that when I had not had a shower. Even though I could not have anything to eat they still brought my breakfast tray and left in my room. I am a smoker and I had a desperate desire for a cigarette (had to take the nicotine patch off because the adhesive was burning my skin) and since I had made several of the nurses mad I had called my daughter and told her to come and get me. It has been 3 days since I was in there and my arm that had the IV still has a burn mark on it from the adhesive and my other arm is so black and blue from them blowing out my veins trying to get blood. I am not ever planning on using Cullman Regional Medical Center again.