Northern California Kaiser Permanente
I was rushed to the hospital for acute appendicitis. Well, actually my dr. admitted me and told me to got directly to the ER from his office. I stopped at home and grabbed a bottle of liquid and an extra battery. I already had my e-cig with me.
So I'm in the er being punped full of antibiotics and morphine for pre surgury while they do some cat scans and other test and I ask the ER nurse is it okay to vape there. She looks at me and says,"I don't know. Nobody's ever asked me that." Haha. So I continued to vape for the 4 hours I was in the ER before surgery.
In pre op room(about 1 1/2 hours) I asked again if it was ok to vape and all three of the nurses said I can't think of a reason why not but I don't think you can. I continued to vape and they didn't care.
I get to my room and the bargain basement nurse that you get once you get in a room (I think they might be nurse assistants) says that you can't use that here because it's bad. I said,"What's bad? It's just water vapor." and she replied,"It contains bad stuff." So in her broken English I tried to get what was bad out of her but she couldn't come up with anything so I decided to continue vaping in my room even though every time she came in she told me I had to stop. I didn't push my luck and ask the head nurse if it was okay I just ignored my nurse.
My advice. Bring your e-cig to the hospital if you are going to be admitted. The worst they can do is tell you to stop.
I was rushed to the hospital for acute appendicitis. Well, actually my dr. admitted me and told me to got directly to the ER from his office. I stopped at home and grabbed a bottle of liquid and an extra battery. I already had my e-cig with me.
So I'm in the er being punped full of antibiotics and morphine for pre surgury while they do some cat scans and other test and I ask the ER nurse is it okay to vape there. She looks at me and says,"I don't know. Nobody's ever asked me that." Haha. So I continued to vape for the 4 hours I was in the ER before surgery.
In pre op room(about 1 1/2 hours) I asked again if it was ok to vape and all three of the nurses said I can't think of a reason why not but I don't think you can. I continued to vape and they didn't care.
I get to my room and the bargain basement nurse that you get once you get in a room (I think they might be nurse assistants) says that you can't use that here because it's bad. I said,"What's bad? It's just water vapor." and she replied,"It contains bad stuff." So in her broken English I tried to get what was bad out of her but she couldn't come up with anything so I decided to continue vaping in my room even though every time she came in she told me I had to stop. I didn't push my luck and ask the head nurse if it was okay I just ignored my nurse.
My advice. Bring your e-cig to the hospital if you are going to be admitted. The worst they can do is tell you to stop.