I made what I thought was a wise and well researched decision to do the medical tourism route thru Dr. Alamanza. He is great, and I feel no issues with my actual surgery site. The surgery went fine even though I didn't get in until after 6pm - that's right. No liquids... not even a sip since last night I.e. 24 plus hours ago. Waiting all day in a loud hospital was mental and physical torture. No one knew a damn thing. And, out of the 16, yes, 16 surgeries he did - I was # 15. No one has communicated with me about anything since I arrived.
Here it is 3:15 am and me, two other ladies and another girl are wide awake because you get glorified ibuprofen and that's it. No sleeping meds, no relaxing meds...just a little baby dose of OTC meds. I have been literally crying, shaking and begging for relief from the people that are supposed to be nurses. One has been asleep since midnight and the other has been MIA since 11. They keep telling me to go to sleep when they are available and I'm like YO - I would love nothing more. There is one poor girl who has dry heaved all night. What are the "nurses" doing? Not a damn thing. I have literally walked three friggin miles because they say that will make my back pain go away. Wrong. I have been on my feet all night because sitting hurts. If you run out of IV fluid - tough shit. You got to get up, wake up the one person here and ask for more. They don't check on you. You could die and no one would know or care. Poor girl just dry heaved again. God help her. That can't be easy on her wounds. There is no call button. You are hooked up to no monitor. You are on your own. At least at the hotel, they will come if you ask and by they I don't mean the nonexistent nurses. I mean the hotel staff. The nurse that was MIA just told a lady who is a nurse in the states that there was nothing they could do for her dry heaving grand daughter. Earlier when I was literally dying of pain - a 9 on a scale of 1-10. and, yes, I was married to a nurse and I know that being melodramatic with that is a severe no no...I asked if I could please go to the ER - I said I would pay whatever it cost to get relief. They were like NOPE. It is now 3:30, and no one is sleeping well or at all. I want to go home now...but guess what...I am sure I will not get that chance since they call the shots. Stay in the states. This is bullshit.
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