I told them to get entirely away from us and demanded they arrange a private ambulance transfer to a different hospital across town, which they paid for instantly without a single word of protest. We are at the new hospital now.

They are monitoring my mom to make sure the heavy cocktail of unnecessary sedatives and pre-op cardiac meds they pumped into her doesn’t negatively interact with her knee recovery.

She is terrified. She jumps every time a nurse walks into the room. I haven’t slept, and I feel completely sick to my stomach. I don’t know what to do next. I know mistakes happen in medicine, but this wasn’t a missed dose of Tylenol.

They almost performed open-heart surgery on the wrong person because a computer system glitched and nobody bothered to actually look at the completely healthy, confused woman they were dragging into an OR. I’m looking for medical malpractice lawyers in my state now, but honestly, I just needed to tell this story.

If your loved one is in the hospital, do not leave their side. Do not trust the system. Because it almost cost my mother her life.