Hi Deb,

Thanks for the post. I really did have my "Nurse from Hell" hat on tonight. After 7 telephone calls and getting the patient care advocats involved at the hospital I finally got the Gastro doc to request that Chris be seen in hospital by an ENT before discharge, so hopefully, the rest of the NG tube will be taken out first thing in the morning. I guess when I went to the nurses desk and asked to see the Chief of Surgery they kinda knew I wasn't going to back down.

This incident is only one of many that I have encountered in "partial" care, but it was the one that sort of blew my top off since it was supposed to be such an easy, standard procedure.

Chris is in a lot more pain than he expected to be, but his nurse tonight was wonderful with him. I was able to leave the hospital knowing he would be taken care of by her. Those little things sure do help, don't they.