I took these pictures at the Bellin Hospital in Green Bay Wisconsin, March 28, 2011. I had just had a Bronchoscopy and a Chamberlain procedure to biopsy several hot spots on my lungs that turned out to be cancerous. After the Dr. who did the procedures told me I had cancer told me I would have to stay in the hospital overnight. While I was being put in a room I started choking from coughing up blood from the biopsy, the head nurse told one of the two other people that was in the room to set up my c-pap machine, by now I'm turning blue and starting to pass out. The nurse now tells the other person to give me oxygen, now the choking has stopped and I can breath again. About an hour and a half later I start choking again and pressed the panic button, someone says "can I help you?" I'm gasping into the speaker because I can't talk and no-one says anything or comes to my aid. I must have passed out for a while as I woke up on the floor propped up against a chair that was in the room. I managed to get in bed and slept for a hour or so when I woke up choking again, I hit the panic button again and someone says what can I do for you, again I'm gasping for air into the speaker and no-one says anything or comes to the room, this time wasn't as bad as before and as soon as I could breath again I kept pressing the panic button repeatedly for 2 or 3 minutes when the head nurse comes in and asked me what I wanted. I said I want out of here, she said where will you go? I said I'm going to the motel where my friend that drove me here is, the nurse says "you don't want to burden her do you? I said at least there will be somebody around to call an ambulance or something, she then said you really don't have to worry we monitor your oxygen at the nurses station. I repeated "I'm getting out of here" She said "you can't leave till the doctor sees you, that will take at least 20 minutes for him to get here". I said "OK" she left the room and came back about a half hour later with a young girl that I'm sure wasn't a nurse and told me the doctor said to go ahead and release me and left leaving the young lady to remove the I.V. Bellin Hospital knows they can't be sued unless one can prove permanent damage from there carelessness.

The young lady takes out the I.V. and puts a piece of cotton and a piece of tape on me, blood is running down my arm and onto the floor, I showed it to her and she says "OH! it will stop in a minute" and left the room.

I see one of the nurses walk by while I was getting my bags ready to go, I called her into my room, asked her for a bandage for my arm, she looked at it and said, "OH my I'll be right back" I thought she was going for some bandaging for it but she never came back.

This board was in the room with the people that were on duty names on it.

This is a picture of the hallway, It's about 50 to 75 foot from my room to the nurses station.

This is the shirt I put on as it was still cold out in March. When I managed to get myself and my bags up to the nurses station there was three people standing around, they all looked at me like they didn't really see me, I had to have looked like a hell of a mess but all they did was look through me, the head nurse shoved some papers at me, release forms and told me to sign them and I could go. I wouldn't sign anything at this point even if I could have, so she writes I refused to sign them and gave them to me and let me be on my way. I was half out of my head by now with the lack of oxygen from the lung procedure, the loss of blood and the news that I had cancer. My friend pulls the car up and I insist on driving. I must have been driving pretty bad as she said later that I scared the hell out of her. No way to treat a friend but I was unaware of just how bad off I was. I drove across Green Bay, stopping for directions to a hospital, from what she told me later. I went to the Aurora hospital emergency room where they stopped the bleeding from the I.V. gave me some oxygen and released me. Two and a half hours later we check into a motel 50 miles from the hospital. I guess I just drove rather aimlessly for most of the time. Finally she gets me home and has to call an ambulance for me the next morning. When I got out of bed I was very confused and turning blue from lack of oxygen. The Dr. in the emergency room put me on oxygen which I'm still on. The release papers has the home instructions on what to do and how to take care of the Bronchoscopy procedure. Nothing on how to take care of the 3 and a half inch insicion from the Chamberlain procedure.