Patient
My father went in for a triple bypass surgery which turned into a quadruple bypass. The whole experience was very overwhelming and terrifying. Heart issues were new to my family we didn't know anything to expect. I feel as tho the hospital did not do my family justice with educating the patient and their family with what we were actually facing. They down played it and told me my father would be home resting. My father never made it home, he never made it out of recovery. He made it into a coma they could not wake him from. I'm still reeling from the trauma. It wasn't until neuro came in and told us my father was basically brain dead that we had any idea that we were even facing my father not coming home. That was a huge wake up call. I feel that the hospital could have done a lot more to keep my family especially the patient wife in the loop about what was actually going on. We were told to keep talking to him and he's gonna wake up to we have almost no chance of him waking up and being normal ever again. It was like he's gonna be okay he's in there to he's gone.The surgeon kept calling his surgery a success as my father laid in a coma!!! The nerve! We went to Boston because they were supposed to be the best of the best. They were the best at nothing. A nurse in my fathers care was the one who told me that we should prepare for the worst. She was the one who said they thought his brain stem wasn't attatched therefore no hope of brain recovery not a doctor. No doctors were being straight with my mom. I feel there was options and time not addressed. I feel our decision on wether to home him out of ICU or pull the plug was rushed. And I feel my family was left in the dark til the end. I was robbed of my father. I would never send my family to their cardiac center ever again. This hospital failed my father and my whole family.