I recently had a fusion done from L2 to L4. While it doesn't seem complicated, the new hardware had to be connected to the old, much larger hardware, I had pretty severe spinal stenosis, arthritis, sciatica, radiculopathies, and a whole lot of scar tissue from about a thousand rhizotomies.
I went back to the surgeon that did my salvage surgery in 1999, where I am apparently known as their "the legend" patient, because of how difficult that surgery was. I was not excited about the hospital stay though, my husband and I has a rather bad experience with a nurse stealing my pain meds. But that was 20 years ago, I'm sure better security measures were put into place since then.
But much to my surprise, I didn't have my surgery at that hospital as a new 'boutique' hospital has been opened. It only has 20 beds and the most beautiful operating suite I've ever seen! I think all the patient rooms are singles. Every nurse is hand-picked and they were all fantastic! My call button never went unanswered because every nurse only cares for a couple of patients- you literally get almost all of their time! On my first night, my nurse stayed in my room with my sister and I the entire night. There are no students or residents or fellows parading through your room with no introductions. They let you sleep for most of the night- they quietly come in and check monitors, but they don't wake you up every two hours to take your bp and temp. They do that before you get up to use the facilities or if you need meds.
The nurses offered to roll in a bed for my husband or sister, whichever one was with me for the night. Both of them felt the leather recliner was really comfy, so they just slept in that.
If you have never experienced a boutique hospital, I can't recommend them highly enough.
This hospital is absolutely AMAZING!!!!! And of course Mike LaGrone continues to be one of the best scoli surgeons out there. But this hospital made the trip to Amarillo totally worth it!
I went back to the surgeon that did my salvage surgery in 1999, where I am apparently known as their "the legend" patient, because of how difficult that surgery was. I was not excited about the hospital stay though, my husband and I has a rather bad experience with a nurse stealing my pain meds. But that was 20 years ago, I'm sure better security measures were put into place since then.
But much to my surprise, I didn't have my surgery at that hospital as a new 'boutique' hospital has been opened. It only has 20 beds and the most beautiful operating suite I've ever seen! I think all the patient rooms are singles. Every nurse is hand-picked and they were all fantastic! My call button never went unanswered because every nurse only cares for a couple of patients- you literally get almost all of their time! On my first night, my nurse stayed in my room with my sister and I the entire night. There are no students or residents or fellows parading through your room with no introductions. They let you sleep for most of the night- they quietly come in and check monitors, but they don't wake you up every two hours to take your bp and temp. They do that before you get up to use the facilities or if you need meds.
The nurses offered to roll in a bed for my husband or sister, whichever one was with me for the night. Both of them felt the leather recliner was really comfy, so they just slept in that.
If you have never experienced a boutique hospital, I can't recommend them highly enough.
This hospital is absolutely AMAZING!!!!! And of course Mike LaGrone continues to be one of the best scoli surgeons out there. But this hospital made the trip to Amarillo totally worth it!
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