Mom was visiting us and she got an infection in her legs, so on Sunday we decided that she should go to the emergency room and have a doctor check it out. We arrived there about 9:45am Sunday morning, mom had to wait in the triage line and then in the admitting line and then in the waiting room before they called her back into the emergency room. It wasn’t too long of a wait, she got back into the emergency room around 10:15am. I had to wait until they did the initial assessment before I could go back. It was about 10:55am when I went back to see my mom in her cute little gown sitting on a hospital bed. Mom explained that a doctor and two nurses had come to talk with her. While the doctor asked her questions, one nurse took her vitals and the other inserted the IV needles and took some blood. Mom said she was in a bit of a daze with all the questions flying around. She was also a little put off that no one really explained to her what was going on. She had just been asked to get into a gown, get on the bed and then a barrage of questions from the doctor and nurses. The gist she did happen to get was that they were sending the blood for testing and she would be sent down for an ultrasound to ensure there wasn’t a blood clot in her leg.
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