Is how Providence Hospital has saved my life.
The title should have read. This is how Providence save my life. So it all started about 9 days ago when I thought I had the flu and was throwing up dark vial and thought it was something that I just ate. It was possibly coming down with the flu. I had a fever and couldn't hold anything down for like 4 days. By day five I finally got something to eat that I was able to hold down and went in to go to work because I needed money to pay rent. I was able to work only for a couple hours before seeing a close friend come in and her look into my eyes and tell me that I wasn't there. I'm sorry I'm crying right now. The way she looked at me and right through me made me know that something wasn't okay. So I went home. After laying down for a couple hours. I instantly started throwing up violently again more of the same. My stubborn ass wouldn't call 911 and continue to fight it through the night. I reached out to my parents and they told me to get help as soon as I could and so I called my brother and said you need to come get me and take me to the hospital or I'm not going to make it. My brother rushed over got me in the back of his car where I laid down and rushed me to a hospital. She asked me where I wanted to go and the closest hospital was advantis. My brother said the reviews. They were horrible. And so I directed him to go where I'd been contracted for years but never been a patient now. Remember through all this I've never been in a hospital other than working there. So my brother rushed me to Providence medical Center, the cancer Tower to get me help. I went into surgery immediately. I had a separated hernia that had blocked my bowel movement and was not able to get anything out of my body that it made me so sick. They cut me open patched my hernia cut out any dead intestine that there was. That was Saturday. I've been here ever since. Today is now Friday. I had to have another procedure done yesterday to put a drain into my back to remove fluid that wasn't getting out. So that's was one complication. Setting back my recovery. At this point my hospital bill had to be close to $200,000. I came in here with zero insurance. Sarah from Providence financing came in to visit me and wanted to collect money and asked if I had insurance and I didn't had none. So she stayed and prayed with me. This Angel above came back to me within 24 hours and told me she had every penny paid for by the state of Oregon and then my coverage would continue once I left here and anything going further would be covered. The nurses, the doctors. Everyone has been so kind and so amazing. Since I've been here I don't know what I would have done without any of them. I would be dead. I owe my my life in in continuing forward coming out here, not financially strapped to the wonderful people of Providence medical Center and I couldn't say any more than if I haven't said enough. If this comes to a hard read. It's because I'm on a lot of medication right now and I'm trying to fight back tears to get this message out. But that is why I owe my life in a restart and a chance to recover both financially and medically because of Providence. What amazing people. It has inspired me that when I get out of here I'm going back to school because I want to work with them and be part of their team and save people myself. I'm going to become a nurse. So thank you Providence thank you nurses thank you doctors and thank you God.