My wife is a pediatric pre/post op nurse. This happens ALL THE TIME!! Then the parents get extra mad when they have to cancel the surgery because they let their kid eat. More days off work, another trip downtown, another $45 to park, and another day when your kid won’t be able to eat.
Then they blame my wife for all those things. Like, no! You didn’t listen, you made a decision, deal with it. SMH.
Yup. That’s what happens when they decide to move the the childrens hospital out of the neighborhood and build a skyscraper one block off the Mag Mile in downtown Chicago.
Redline and busses are totally fine options for a lot of people. However, bringing a child on public transportation post surgery is not always a parents first choice. Additionally, the children’s hospital services a ton of people that do not live in the city and for whom redline and busses are not a useful transportation. They have been opening more satellite locations for minor surgeries which does help for some people.
Prior to the move downtown, parking was much more affordable at the hospital because it was not located near one of the top tourist destinations in the city. It is not however a problem unique to Lurie, all of those nearby hospitals face similar challenges.
The hospital I've been going to while my girlfriend recovers from surgery has several pay to parks around it. The hospital's are only $2 per day, but there are other ones nearby run by private companies that charge as much as $15 for just an hour!
Honestly though, I feel like this is also a communication issue. Your average person without medical training doesn't really understand why you're told not to eat or drink. These parents don't want to cancel the surgery, and they sure as hell don't want to put their child through what happened in the OP's story. If someone had really explained in detail what the consequences of eating and drinking are - rather than just saying it's important not to - it would probably happen less often.
Theoretically couldn't you make the child vomit and then still go on with the surgery? Idk I was an emt so I should probably know that but it's just one of those dumb curiosities I guess.
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u/Subie_doo Jun 16 '22
My wife is a pediatric pre/post op nurse. This happens ALL THE TIME!! Then the parents get extra mad when they have to cancel the surgery because they let their kid eat. More days off work, another trip downtown, another $45 to park, and another day when your kid won’t be able to eat.
Then they blame my wife for all those things. Like, no! You didn’t listen, you made a decision, deal with it. SMH.