Spent nearly 24 hours at Queen of the Valley hospital in West Covina. http://www.yelp.com/biz/queen-of-the-valley-hospital-west-covina. I am fine but my dear Sovie had difficulty breathing due to his asthma. The first 8 or so hours were spent in the ER and the remaining time was on the 3rd floor. The hospital def doesn't give a clean vibe and some of the staff were slow to respond and didn't give the impression that they cared about their job or their patients. He had one semi-decent respiratory therapist (Antonio Zuniga) and one great RN (Darleen).
My baby was getting "breathing treatments" periodically-- a mask that pumped albuterol into his lungs but he said it didn't really help. Despite his inability to breathe easy, he was one of the "healthier" ones there. There was a gangster guy in the next bed that came in bleeding profusely with stab wounds. He was accompanied by 4 of West Covina's finest until they stabilized him and prepped him for the OR. The guy was moaning a lot before they sedated him with the drug that killed Michael Jackson (Propofal?). The entire ER staff (it seemed) concentrated on saving this guy's life...shouting to give him blood, drugs, whatever. And for what? So they could sew him up, arrest him and take him to jail. Wonderful. Some of the the things the staff asked/told him were: "what's your name?" "what is your doctor's name?" "who did this to you?" and "we are going to save your life today, okay?" He was a young guy, I think his birth year was 1987 or 1988?
It's been almost 24 hours since he checked into the hospital and he is still there... Get better soon baby.
