My grandmother had a stroke and I brought her to the emergency room. I wrote her name on the sign in sheet as well as the signs and symptoms of stroke ie very high blood pressure 200/120, one side of body is limp, facial drooping on one side, slurred speech, HELLO!!!. I verbally informed the triage nurse that my grandmother may have sufferred a stroke but she did not even bother to look at her and just told me to wait. I kept on telling the triage nurse that my grandmother need to be seen immediately. It took about an hour before she was finally taken inside. When we got inside, her blood pressure was checked and it was still very high. Nothing was done. We were made to wait again. No IVs, no discussion of plan of care. The interns came after about about 40 minutes with finally a plan of treatment for my grandmother.\r
My grandmother's conditioned worsened. When I visited her the following day, she did not recognize any of us, she cannot talk, A few weeks later she died.\r
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