After reading all the information these many months on the pros and cons of a new hospital, I’ve decided to share my appreciation of medical care in Allen County and my plan to vote YES for a new hospital.
In preparation for my first surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center, my doctor advised me to plan for at least one night in the hospital.
I left home early on June 26, 2006, expecting to be home in a couple of days. I was there two nights, swelled out of a cast. They cut it off and put on a bigger one and released me that evening. I was home overnight and by noon was in Allen County Hospital.
The next morning, Dr. Glen Singer directed the removal of the second cast and said to leave it off. I was in ACH two weeks, then transferred to Windsor Place Nursing Home.
When a culture was taken it revealed staphylococcus infection along with three other infections, the names of which I don’t even remember. I had watched, terror stricken, as my foot and leg swelled, turned angry red, black and blue up to the knee, fearing my foot would have to be cut off, but not breathing a word of my fears to a soul.
A different plan of care was immediately initiated and about four weeks later I was released to go home on Sept. 6.
The things I have since learned about staphylococcus infection tell me that I’m not only blessed to have my foot, but I’m blessed to be here and I owe it all to some fantastic physicians, Drs. Wolfe and Singer, a very special little nurse named Dee, to Allen County Hospital and to Windsor Place Nursing Home.
Please vote YES for a new hospital.
To vote YES for a new hospital is a “no brainer.”
We have some very skilled and dedicated, top notch physicians, nurses and other support staff in Allen County, and I believe as taxpayers we have a responsibility to provide them with a top notch facility in which to work.
Our expectations of their performance is top notch, yet it can only be that if they have an adequate, modern facility with the latest in medical equipment with which to work — and that’s where we come in.
Please vote YES for a new hospital. See you at the polls.
Frances Williams
Iola, Kan.
