I’m truly curious. Not even trying to complain, I understand the hospitals are full but like what takes so long to print paperwork?
UPDATE: Thank you all for your input and responses, it definitely helped the time pass by. We are home now. I do understand waiting is not suffering but at some point something has to give. We have an infant and toddler who had to be left with family and we were anxious to get home to them. I understand we are not the only people who have ever had to wait for discharge. I was truly curious as to what the hold up is. After getting incoming responses seeming to state that this is normal, it all got to me. This should not be normal and the patient, critical or not, should not have to get the short end of the stick. Reality or not. In a perfect world I guess.
Sorry to all the underpaid, over worked staff.
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I had gallbladder surgery 2 months after giving birth by c-section. They put me in a room with some poor woman who had a terrible stomach virus. Even with percocet, I got no sleep that night, because the nurses kept ignoring this woman but they answered me when I rang the bell. “Mrs Jenkins is throwing up again,” I would say. A nurse would peek her head in, observe the woman barfing on the floor, and ask “You sick?” The next morning, Mrs. J. got on the phone and called every friend and relative she had. The day I was to be discharged, our two-person room was filled almost to the ceiling with people she knew, running back and forth getting her things that she asked for. I’m sure it took longer for the bureaucratic stuff to happen. Eventually, my husband and I looked at each other and just said,”let’s get out of here.” We felt so defiant doing that! Leaving ahead of the official discharge had zero effect on me, healthwise, and we still got the huge bill. I think if you’re able to walk or roll out of the hospital, you should be able to do it, especially if they are delaying your discharge for no sensible reason.
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