On a recent visit to the E.R. I presented with chest pain and shortness of breath and being a heart patient, I was always told by my primary care physician to get evaluated no matter what. From the moment I walked in I was attended to right away by I believe Alexa, the registration clerk who immediately called the nurse who came out with a wheelchair. I was taken to a room right away and had several people take care of me. The nurses were awesome and so caring and attentive! Macky, Jess, Whitney (I believe that was her name) they began the work up right away with an EKG, started an IV, drew labs. Doctor Laine, was the ER physicsian on duty. They were able to have my records from Renown sent over. I informed them of my heart conditions including an ascending aortic aneurysm which caused concern being my blood pressure was elevated. He immediately ordered a CT scan with contrast which I mentioned I was allergic to and ordered meds to counteract it. Wendy, the CT tech was awesome as well and very reassuring and explained the whole procedure. They kept me warm with warm blankets as I was cold. I was given nitroglycerin tablets as the ones I had taken earlier the E.R. doc explained only have a 2 or 3 month shelf life and in addition to aspirin I was given morphine for chest pain. I was then seen by Doctor Sammels the hospitalist who told me so far, so good but wanted to keep me overnight and redo my labs in the morning. I finally got to a room in med/drug around 1 a.m. and was immediately greeted by the RN house supervisor but don't recall his name but he was awesome! Valerie, my night nurse introduced herself and did my assement and brought me my pain meds. She was awesome as well as my day nurse Mike and the RN house supervisor Fernando, who watched the football game with me. I was attended to by Doctor Katy Schousen, the hospitalist. She was amazing as could be and reassured me my heart was good but a little weak still and my ascending aortic aneurysm was stable. I mentioned to the ER staff that I had a recent syncopal episode and that I had hit my head and chest hard when I fell to the ground. She attributed it to chest wall pain or chostocondritis(chest wall/cartilage inflammation). This by far was a great stay even though I don't like hospital stays but better to be safe than sorry. All the while, Valerie and Mike along with the Jayson, the day shift nursing assistant, kept checking on me and brought me a sandwich to eat rather Valerie did along with some applesauce. As well as the ER staff brought me juice. They all kept me comfortable and reassured. This place rocks. You are all amazing and if there were more than five stars, I'd give them. Keep up the great work!
