Teacher ‘s mom
This has been an almost 2 week nightmare. Remember I did the final move for my mother on Wednesday, March 27. On Friday, March 29, I was with her at 2:00 pm and she was fine. I went out to buy groceries and takeout food for dinner and came back to her apartmentat 5:30 pm. She said she was in pain - her thigh on her right leg was hurting. She said it just happened - she didn’t fall or bang her leg in any way. The only thing I could think of was that maybe she’d tried to move some of the moving boxes by pushingthem with her leg.
The next day she said it was worse - I finally called an ambulance as I couldn’t get her to the car she was in so much pain. The ambulance took her and I got my car and drove to the Markham Stouffville Hospital. By the time I parked and walked to the EmergencyDepartment and searched for her the doctor was walking out the door of the examining room saying she had a pulled muscle and to apply ice. That’s it - no X-ray, no medication for pain!
I took her home and of course nothing got better. By Thursday, April 4, I was really getting worried as she was still in pain. I called a service that sends doctors to your home. A doctor came to see her at 10;00 pm that night and agreed it was a pulledmuscle but gave her pain medication.
By Sunday, April 7, I said we have to go back to Emergency. We got there around 9;00 pm and waited in the line to see the triage nurse. Almost 2 hours later we gave up and went home without seeing anyone.
Monday, April 8, I called the family clinic we go to and was able to get an appointment with a resident doctor. He ordered an X-ray and we went back to the hospital. She had the X-ray and no one said anything so we headed for home. Just as we got home myphone rang and it was the hospital radiology department saying we should come back. They took more X-rays and sent us to Emergency where we sat for another 4 hours before being seen by a doctor. Finally we saw a doctor and I nearly lost it when he said “andwhat brings you here today?” I had assumed my mother with a now documented broken hip would be a priority. He only looked at the X-ray with us sitting there. I could tell he was shocked that she had been walking on a broken hip for 10 days.
From that point on things moved along - she got admitted and into her ward bed by 11:00 pm.
She didn’t get the surgery until 7:00 pm on Tuesday the 9th - a total hip replacement and repair for a torn thigh muscle. She is recovering now and her pain is being managed well.
