more about the nasty mouth and coming home

Good for the orderly for making sure you were safe! Not many employees are that conscientious and concerned for patients. You should write a note to the floor nurse and mention it to her--he may get a promotion so he can help more people. I was surprised that they sent my dad home from the hospital in the evening yesterday. I guess they don't care when they send you home anymore but I would think after breakfast or lunch would be the best time.

I saw this post by accident as I have not been receiving your notifications. I am so sorry that you had this experience. No I didn't know that hospitals can send you home at any time. Boy, your daughter must really love her partner to put up with that kind of behaviour. It is so sad and I hope that she can one day walk away from that kind of person. I do hope that you are feeling better now. Take great care and many blessings.

I did know they did that now. Alot of changes in this old world.

I didn't know that the hospital could (or would) send you home at those odd hours. Our local hospital doesn't. At our hospital, you are sent home only when your doctor releases you, and they seem to make most of their 'rounds' in the morning.

What a jerk. I have been sent home in the middle of the night after an emergency room visit. I haven't been released from the hospital in the middle of the night though. I am glad you made it home alright.

I'm glad you got home okay. yeah, they can let you go any time. I've been discharged late at night before.

bunnybon--you already know my feelings about "Mr. Toilet Mouth"...GONE, gone, out of your life! But I must hand out great BIG accolades for the young orderly showing concern for your safety...restores one's faith in the world! Hospitals here, have NO regard...you are BOOTED anytime of day..OR NIGHT! And ALONE! You may or may not recall...I live on a small Island! We go to Hospital by Water Taxii or Helicopter! Two summers ago, I was helicoptered OFF Island to the nearest Hospital (exceedingly LOW potassium)causing heart problems and onsetting dimentia! Treated with high doses of Potassium (recovery very fast)! I was released from the Hospital at 11:30 at night...THERE WAS NO WAY to get home, the Ferries have QUIT running for the day! Next one--next morning at 5:30 a.m., and you have to get there from the hospital! They even kick you out of the Waiting Room at the Hospital--as they need it for Emergencies. You either sit outside...or get a Hotel/Motel for the rest of the night! This is regardless of your age..or status! Just happened to my 86 year old neighbour this past summer..and she had to have her son-in-law hire a Water Taxi, in the middle of the night to bring her home...as the Paramedics had NOT taken her purse with her, to the hospital..so NO money for accomodations! You're treated...You're OUT! AND they all know, when you are checked in..where you live! ONE day, some-one will die, due to this proceedure...and then it may be looked into! Makes me mad just thinking about it! Sorry!

hi bunnybon that is different used to be only in the mornings and you were told ahead of time. But that late at night and your poor daughter on cold meds. I hate those meds, they work, but they make you feel odd. oh my gosh that boyfriend, why the heck cannot he behave like a normal person. oh I hate that f word too. How embarrassing. No wonder the wheelchair guy asked you if you were afraid of the boyfriend,him using all that bad language..The last time I was discharged was last March and the billing clerk came in and told me before the Doctor came and discharged me. I guess she was so afraid I would stay on and incur 100 dollars a a day that I could not pay. lol She had taken it on herself to suggest the access bus and i was just newly able to walk again with minimum pain. I told her I would ask my friends to pick me up and bring me back home as I was not up to climbing the steps on the little bus.I got home just fine thanks to my best friends dear son Michael. He is a real sweetheart that young man.

I know there have been times I was sent home pretty late in the evening. I know after the first chemo that was done in the hospital they kept me overnight because it was snowing pretty bad and I had driven myself there and it was after 10pm when finished and most nights if I finished after 9pm they let me sleep it off, but there was one night that I finished and they kicked me out around 9 or so. The last time they were going to let me go in the evening I told them my biggest worry was my breathing at night since I have a flat bed so the next day they sent me home (got there around 4 or so by taxi) and they set me up with a hospital type bed so I could raise the head and feet. Insurance sucks since they try to get people out of the hospitals in no time at all.

I didn't know that they could send you home anytime of the day. I knew that you could go home in the morning, afternoon and sometimes early evening. I suppose when the doctor is available to sign your release forms then you can go home. Sorry to hear the boyfriend swore when you were with the hospital staff.

I did know that hospitals can release patients at any time of the day or night now and I really don't think that it is something that I agree with, but then there is nothing that I can do about it. It used to be that a 23 hour observation period would be set up so the patient could leave first thing in the morning, but when I worked at the hospital, there were many times that I had to discharge patients at three or four o'clock in the morning because their 23 hours was up.

That is another sign that hospitals don't really care. They used to send you home at least mid day. now you're saying anytime. That is really not right.