I am so sorry about what happened. For me, it was similar experiences with my human son...dull needles being poked and jabbed cruelly when he was an infant, etc.
Then, when he went into the hospital for open heart, the prep nurse punched through all the veins in his arms and feet and they refused even to twilight him to take the many, many vials for type/crossmatch for the heart/lung machine out of his neck. They couldn't get blood 'cuz his veins kept collapsing...he was terrified!!! He was just barely 3 years old at the time.
Then, they shoved his crib into a dark corner and pulled a curtain around his bed. He was due in OR at 5 am. Other nurses just barely found him as he was about to go over the top of his crib...and capped it, putting him back with the other babies in peds. The only reason they found him at all was that he was so frightened he kept crying and they kept checking all the babies in the main area...who were all sleeping, and accidentally one nurse was walking in the unoccupied (except for him...wrongly!) area when he cried again!
He broke records for going home after open heart surgery 'cuz I wouldn't let him stay in peds after cardio-thoracic released him for return...and that nurse was not allowed to work on a shift without his supervisor!!
You were right to get your baby away from there. Not all that glitters is gold...in any profession.
I am truly sorry for you and your baby. I do hope she will receive better care from this day forward! |