 Good morning my beautiful internet friends and welcome back to Storytime Saturday. Now this one is gonna be a little bit intense. I mean most of them kind of are but this one in particular we're gonna talk about the worst surgical experience I've ever had and ironically it is absolutely nothing to do with my leg or anything I've ever mentioned before. Also my hair is doing crazy things today so we're just gonna we're gonna pretend that's the style. The messy hair look. Anyways as we dive in if you like this video if you would hit like and subscribe to this channel that'd be fantastic you would help me get to a hundred thousand subscribers which is a really cool big number and I would consider it a deep personal lasting favorite. Without further ado let's talk about the truly scarring miserable surgical experience I had. It took place about five years ago. Here's the situation. I've had many health issues over the years and not just the brain condition, the key eye malformation or ankle surgeries. There was a long period of time when I had really intense abdominal pain. I have to go to the hospital they'd run a million tests and then 24 hours I'd be okay sometimes it would take days to go away sometimes it'd be like a week and then there was one point where it just wouldn't stop I eventually was admitted to the hospital and after running tests and tests and I was on drugs for days and so on and so forth and nothing was working like at all and they decided to do a colonoscopy. Super fun to talk about yes yes I am fully aware at that point it was like the only logical thing to do next so we said okay let's go for it they schedule it for the next day there in that hospital had to do like a whole prep for it and they schedule it for four o'clock in the afternoon if you know anything about surgeries you have to not drink or eat usually like midnight the night before surgery so usually surgeries at like 7 a.m. 9 a.m. something like that it was at 4 p.m. so I couldn't eat from midnight the night before this is not it was not a lot of fun but anyways eventually surgery time came and the nurse came up to get me this started off with a bang because she couldn't get the IV right and so blood like was spurting out of my arm which it's not a big deal like that happens it's part of I'm sure being a nurse but she didn't clean it up but she did not clean it up as in part of my like my right side of my body was drenched in blood as were the sheets that I was on as she continued to try to put the IV in and then wheeled me downstairs super not professional or clean I feel like that breaks a lot of hygienic rules but I mean I don't know so they wheeled me downstairs like the surgical area when they got me down there again this is a small thing the bed they put me on the head was down and like the rest of it was up so I was like leaned back in the bed being like this is not cool or comfortable do I have to stay here not a big deal accidents happen it was delayed it was delayed it was delayed people were not in a good mood people were panicked I was freaked out I mean like I was hadn't eaten or drank in hours and was in a lot of pain but eventually they wheeled me into the surgical room and my dad was with me and here's where things get a little bit fun they weren't ready for me even after all the delays they were not ready it felt like there were like 20 people in that room I'm sure it was like five to seven the computer system that they were going to use was not working or like whatever kind of scanning or whatever they do in that surgery it wasn't working as they brought me into the room so I was sitting there on the table prepared for surgery as they're like oh isim is working like get someone down here to fix it blah blah blah and people were like coming in and out my dad was right next to me and after like 30 minutes they were eventually like okay we're good to go and then they brought my dad out of the room and they were still hectic like the room was still panicked it did not feel good it did not feel like people were in control of things no one was like talking to me or anything like that and I started crying I was really emotional like I was scared because they were about to put me under and perform a procedure on me when I felt like they were not remotely prepared or focused like everything was so like rushed okay let's do it now it's working let's just get it done I don't want them to just get me done I want them to take their time and do a good job with the surgical procedure and so I started crying and someone actually listened to me and was like hey you know what's going on and I told them I was not comfortable with this proceeding this does not feel right I don't feel like you guys are ready and I got really panicked and was having a hard time breathing but I did say I don't feel comfortable with this and then lights out baby they literally put me under they just put me under when I was asking them to not when I was telling them I was not comfortable having that surgery that experience because you know if someone is just mouthing off obviously and talking when they should just really shut up just go ahead go ahead and start up that anesthesia make your life easier right because me as the patient why would my rights matter because their day was obviously hectic they just needed to get stuff done I was just another cog on the assembly wheel not sure if that analogy makes sense it made sense in my head for a second there and that was a huge breach of rights that was super violating to me because I said don't do this and they're like good night you know they didn't even say good night they literally just put me out when I woke up this part's a little weird like underwear was not back on all the way it was like around my knees which is super freaking weird and also as someone who has been a survivor of sexual assault having someone put you out against your will and then you wake up and you aren't properly dressed that was super triggering to me and this was years ago before I'd gone through half the counseling I'd gone through now and so I was freaking out I was like this is not okay I am not okay nothing about the situation is okay and when I got back out to my room I was actually hysterical like I've rarely been in my life like sobbing couldn't form words barely and I finally could I was a wreck now what the hospital's response to me was which is so very crappy was uh you know it really seems like you're having some psychological issues maybe your pain is just related to that I was hysterical because people had put me out against my will I'd woken up not fully dressed I had trauma in my past which they were aware of that I had told them about just so they could you know be forewarned I was hysterical because of that I wasn't hysterical because I was an unstable individual and so they were like I think you just need to talk to a counselor and that made me more upset because I felt like they were just like shoving me off like writing me off I told them about the experience I had you know in the surgical room they didn't take it seriously which I think is ridiculous but I this is one of the few times in my life where I really advocated for myself and my family did too and we like escalated it to HR or whatever the department is that that handles this kind of thing and I filed a formal complaint with the hospital and you know six months later I got a nice letter saying we heard what you said it wasn't an actual apology it was a we're sorry if we made you feel uncomfortable sort of thing not an actually we're sorry that that happened in retrospect I probably should have taken that a lot further because that is a giant oh just violation of patient rights and is so messed up to put someone out when they're saying don't do this like what the heck guys uh honestly one of the worst parts though is when they were like telling me like you just need to see a psych person when I was upset about it long story short I wanted to get out of the hospital as soon as I could so they eventually discharged me pretty soon after that I was at home for days and a lot of pain but I wasn't gonna go back there for obvious reason and eventually the pain subsided I had abdominal surgery of months after that they thought maybe it was like endometriosis or something like that thankfully it wasn't and years later it's pretty much gone I still have abdominal issues they never actually found out the root cause but the frequency got a lot less and now it basically never happens but that was by far the worst surgical experience I've ever had I've obviously had ones that were a heck of a lot more painful or difficult to recover from but things go a lot better when people just like respect you if you know what I mean it's not that difficult to do in Colorado and actually looked this up not that long ago the statute of limitations on filing complaints filing like legal action against hospitals or things like that is three years then more than three years so there's nothing I can do about it now which is fine but still isn't that a little bit messed up it might only want to think that's a little bit messed up I feel like that's a little too far now thankfully I've had lots and lots and lots and lots of experiences with medical professionals and surgery and all kinds of things and the vast majority have been incredibly positive experiences you know situations I didn't necessarily want to be in but positive experiences because people were great doctors you know did their jobs that was the only experience in which I wanted to just bang my head against a wall and be like what are you guys doing this is not okay on any level and you're not taking responsibility for it but at least I got a letter out of it super annoying so this is the worst surgical experience I ever had how about you what are some of weird or odd experiences you've had with doctors or medical offices or surgeries I would love to hear them if you feel like sharing them in the comment section down below and also let's just reflect back for a second again how messed up is that like I would never like put someone out against their will that's so weird why would you do that maybe I'm a little bitter over it still anyways thank you guys for supporting me and thank you to all my patrons for your financial support and all your lovely comments and messages over there today's patron of 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