Sad Calgary Story - Miscarriage

moped wrote: http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2006/0...701343-sun.html

gr33n3y3z replied: So sad to read that
It makes me
Thats all I will say about it

BAC'sMom replied: It makes me too

C&K*s Mommie replied: sad that a baby was lost

grrrrrrs to the hospital staff that did not help her out in some way, at least some sort of privacy somewhere or something. grrrrsss..

luvmykids replied: Oh how awful!! They couldn't have taken her to L&D or something just to give the couple some privacy?

A&A'smommy replied: that is SO sad I just don't know how they can let something like that happen and not try to do anything for them!!!

Halo42101 replied: That makes me so angry. I hate how Hospitals and Doctors act as if a miscarriage is really no big deal. There needs to be more concern in that subject. I have heard so many different stories and have exp. my own. I was actually thinking of that this morning. My heart breaks for that couple and their loss.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: If she would just have gopne up to L&D, they probably could have helped her. I was always told by the doctor and the hospital staff to just go right on up to the maternity ward, not to bother stopping at triage.

CantWait replied: words can't describe all the feelings going through my head right now. What a horrible experience. Even if nothing could have been done, then some private time for the expectant parents wouldn't have been less tramatic.

TheOaf66 replied: so sad taht something like that has to happen, some people have no compassion.

PrairieMom replied:
Okay. I feel like being from the medical community I have to say something. I'm not saying that what the hospital did was right. It should have been handled differently, but that asside let me just say...

In general our ER's are being way over used. So many people come in with problems that arent truely emergencies, things that can wait for the clinic to open in the morning, or things that could really be handled in acute care facilities.

ER's are have limited rooms, supplies and staff. If they are being used up by people that aren't really having emergencies, then they aren't available for those that are.

It has nothing to do with the ammount of compassion healthcare workers have, sometimes our hands are tied and there is nothing that can be done.

moped replied:
I do agree and I was wondering if someone would bring it up.........these hospitals are swamped. I have had a m/c but didn't think to go to the ER for it - I waited til morning.

Still very sad

Mommy2Isabella replied: That is so sad!

I know here I was really sick awhile back before I was PG, and I waited for about an hour.

However, at the hospital here, if you are PG, you go STRAIGHT to L&D, and they take care of you, no matter what the situation.


Thats terribly sad!

ZandersMama replied: unbelievable but not rare. my last m/c the on call doctor said to go home and take an iron pill

Our Lil' Family replied: What a horrible thing to have to go through in a WAITING ROOM! My gosh!
So why didn't the ER staff send her to L&D?

PrairieMom replied:
I don't know. But In my hospital you can't be admitted with out an admitting dr, which you can't get unless you are seen in the ER or clinic or something like that. Maybe she didn't have an OBGYN or maybe she never called her doc before going to the hospital?
You can't just show up at a hospital room with out being expected. Arrangements need to be made for your care, that sometimes includes making sure a room is clean, and available, and that there is nursing staff to take care of you.

5littleladies replied: That is incredibly sad. That poor couple.

Jackie012007 replied:
OMG do I agree! I ended up in the ER when I started bleeding pretty bad and had cramping, called the OBGYN and they told me to go there immediately... it was PACKED. They treated me like it was no big deal, meanwhile there was this woman who came in because her foot hurt and she didn't know why... MEANWHILE she was walking all over the waiting room talking to people! This other woman was morbidly obese and in a wheelchair, every time a nurse would come near, she'd start wheezing and coughing like she was dying... but when they went away, she was fine. What is wrong with these people? Who likes hanging out for 5 hours in the ER??? I ended up being shoved into a room for 5 hours, with no one checking on me or anything... next door there was a toddler with shards of glass stuck in his hands, and no one helped him... because they were too busy dealing with the idiots in the waiting room! I don't get it... but I am very lucky it was just the cyst and noet a m/c, and how horrible for that woman to go through that

PrairieMom replied:
unfortunately a lot of people don't have primary care physicians so they use the ER like its the Dr's office. I see it all the time. Plus there are the people that LIKE being sick so they can get attention from people, friends, family and hospital staff. Then you have the Drug seekers... Its really sad.

mummy2girls replied: I read that in the paper today:( Very sad!

holley79 replied: That is horrible and so sad.

AlexsPajamaMama replied:
L&D was my first thought too

Kirstenmumof3 replied: That is so sad! When I was pregnang with Claudia I had some early spotting and when I went to the ER, I was brought in right away. My cousin had a miscarriage in Thunder Bay while visiting from Winnipeg and she had the same experience as me, she was brought in right away. But she told me that had this happened in Winnipeg she would have been waiting in the waiting room. It's just so tragic that that couple had to go through something like that!

youngmomofone replied: Here you cant go up to L&D unless you are 20 weeks. If less then you have to be seen in the ER first.

I feel so bad for them that they had it happen in a waiting room.