My daughter was found in the middle of the night, unconscious and seizing on her kitchen floor.

She's 28 years old, not a child. She was taken to the local hospital where they did a CT scan and informed her that she didn’t have a seizure because if she had, she would have wet her pants. Now mind you, she’s not a lady who holds her tongue, but she felt like a train and ran her down and had no fight in her.

How should this be dealt with after the fact?

Se have a family history of Epilepsy. We all know what it looks like. How can a medical professional say something like this?

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TallMtnMedic · M

They are right about wetting pants most of the time, however if she emptied her bladder beforehand that pretty much ruins their premise. Pretty shitty that they automatically discounted everything based off one thing.

Get a second opinion asap, if she has a dr give them a call.

History is huge here, also communication.

Document everything word for word.

Write every question she has, as well as you also. You'll be able to go over them with her provider.

Finally, go to the facility she was seen at amd get ahold of the patient advocate there. They only answer to the CEO and are there only to advocate for you.

One thing you have going for you have experience based off history. As wierd as it sounds, you know what to look for with her.

nonsensiclesnail · F

@TallMtnMedic thank you for this. I did forget the patient advocate.
We have an appointment with her provider, but unfortunately it is all part of the same medical group.
She is making her list of questions this afternoon.
She has a history o this sort of treatment by this hospital going back two years now, where she has been listed as visiting the ER for being "fat" ( 6 months pregnant) and for being lonely.

But the pants wetting thing? I don't mean to sound like a brat, but I have 5 nephews, a husband, a brother in law and father in law and a son who all have epilepsy. They don't wet their pants when they seize, not even during a grand mal. Im nt saying it doesn't happen, but really. how is that an indicator? And given her medical history, everything they know that needs to be dealt with, that they are choosing to not, they sent her home as though she was just looking for attention.

We have her chart where they have documented their own derogatory comments in the past as well as what was said currently. She has been told directly by nurses at the hospital that since it has been sold, it is ran as a business, not a medical practice.

Im just angry.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@TallMtnMedic @nonsensiclesnail I agree with documenting everything. I wish I had done it with my daughter, she had some really weird variety of rashes and I think the doctor didn’t understand what I was telling him. It ended up she also had lupus. I went around and around with her doctors for over 2 years until one finally sent her to a children’s hospital doctor to have testing done.

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