Kasey A.

Review of Cartersville Medical Center

I have been here for almost 6 days now. The only r...

I have been here for almost 6 days now. The only reason I came in 1st place is because I thought I was having a heart attack. Turned out it was acute pancreatitis. I was admitted & told specfic treatment would be fluids & pain control. They loaded me up with saline solution & started complaining the very next evening because my stomach was extremely swollen. One particular RA ignored my concern, so I called RA leader into my room the 3rd night & showed her. She couldn't believe it! I asked to be weighed & had gained 24 LBS of fluid weight in 3 days!!! She immediately took it upon herself to lower drip from 250 to 150. She must have let someone have it bc the 4th morning, I was having all kinds of test ran & fluid was lowered to 50. After 3 rounds of diuretics & 5...going on 6 days from day of admittance, I'm almost back to my normal weight. The doctors are so slow to respond & slow to enter orders into the system. If it weren't for much of the nursing/pct staff, I don't know what would have happened. I'm so ready to leave & will demand to be transported to Wellstar Kennestone tomorrow if they do not release me. The GI doctor put me in this condition. I should have been out of here within 3 days tops.