3. [Serious]What is the least professional thing a medical professional has ever sa...

[Serious]What is the least professional thing a medical professional has ever said to you?

I had my son little over a month early. He was in the NICU for a couple weeks so I was there every day. The hospital was far from my home so I was staying in a hotel room not far from there. I started swelling in my arms and my legs a couple weeks before I went into labor and the swelling was continually increasing after I had him. The pain I was in was nearly unbearable. I could barely hold my son in the NICU to feed him. The nurse that visited with me told me I should probably go down to the ER to get checked out because she noticed the swelling as well. I get in there and I guess the dr was having a bad day. He's all like "you just had a baby what do you think would happen?". Wouldn't do any bloodwork nothing. Just kept repeating that I was hormonal and that it's normal to swell after having a baby. I asked if it was normal to gain 20lbs in weight after having a baby because the last time I had a child I believe I lost that much and I bounced back from that within a couple days. He was a total ass and told me that I was just stressing because of the baby in the NICU. I even asked him to do bloodwork to make sure because the pain I was in was horrendous and he wouldn't. Fast forward to me taking my baby home 2 weeks later. It's a blizzard and I walk in the door and I start getting chest pains to go along with everything else hurting on my body. I end up going to a different ER since I was now home and find out that I was in severe congestive heart failure due to one of my heart walls deciding they were done. The swelling was from that and it was causing nerve damage. Once on lasiks I lost so much water weight I wish I had been entered in a biggest loser contest.... It was so bad at this point that everything was starting to fail. Stayed in the ICU a few days. If that first doctor I had gone to would have just done the blood test my BNP levels would have showed that. I was 25 years old. I'm 29 now and my cardiomyopathy is managed with meds so all it good but I still get pissed when he kept telling me I was just overreacting.

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