Admitted via ER for nausea, dry heaving making it difficult to eat or drink due to Covid. I was positive 3rd day of symptoms. I am a double lung transplant patient. That experience has left me with severe mental anguish when admitted to a hospital. My lab work showed dehydration, increased potasium and Creatine levels. I'm under the care of VA Puget sound. They are monitoring my CKD closely. I am Diabetes type I insulin controlled and had a previous Gastric By-pass. Therefore no mystery to the elevated lab values. I was IV hydrated and admitted. Next day feeling well enough to go home and inform my medical team of the situation and follow THEY'RE care concerns but next day my levels were still higher than a normal value. The physician wasn't going to let me leave without my potassium/Creatine levels dropped. He did not sem to understand that I was already receiving care for my CKD. I literally could no longer remain due to mental anguish, fear and believing I would remain there for days while waiting on my levels to "Get better". I left feeling 100% better but unable to sleep for 2 days while I couldn't calm down fom the admission. I repeated my concerns several times to physician/nurses. I left before I might cause an incident. While I was there for 24 hrs, I was visited by wound care clinic (due to an ongoing chest wound after surgery on 3 Oct 23 at Puget Sound. Where I was released same day and given supplies to continue with home care), a Physical therapy representative (whom I explained that I was currently under Physical Therapy through VA at a local PT center) and a nutritional representative. I explained my history of Gastric Bypass, Diabetes,and CKD. Again explained I was under care of VA nutritionist and there was likely nothing she could do differently for me at this time. What I never saw was a Mental Health representative to help me through this and everyone was aware of my difficulty. Especially the nursing staff. Signing out AMA after 24 hrs was my only recourse made available.
