Common Courtesy

[Apologies for any incoherent sentences/grammar/spelling. I’m pretty out of it, so I am using voice to text.]

Wow just wow. I was admitted overnight at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua for observation. I had multiple seizures.

This stay has been so much better than my stay at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon New Hampshire. There, I felt like I was left to rot. Here, every staff person I have interacted with has treated me with respect.

Rather than just dumping all of my pills on me at 9 PM and 9 AM, they’re giving my meds to me at the directed time. They provide ginger ale, crackers, and even a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!

Even more impressive: they have a pulmonary specialist who administered my allergy and asthma medication. He even gave me water and a cup so that I could rinse my mouth out after I took my inhalers! I just overheard him in another room. He was telling a patient that she needed to rinse after she took inhalers, or she would be at risk for thrush

My room has already been cleaned. A nursing assistant came in with fresh bedding and a new Johnny. She offered to help me bathe once I was more awake.

None of these things happened at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. I was just left there, trapped in the bed. I heard other patients screaming. I heard staff complaining about how short staffed they were. If I moved too much, alarms would go off. I had to buzz (and wait forever) simply to go to ghetto bathrooms. It was traumatizing.

So, thank you to the staff at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center!