Ack! I hope she's ok by now (just read this). I know how the "all night in the hospital with mom" feels -- it happened to me a number of years ago. None of the shift nurses or doctors briefed the previous shift about what was going on, and they kept coming in and asking my poor mom the same questions over and over again. I was about ready to throttle the lot of them.

I realize they're horribly short-staffed, but after about the 5th round of the same damn questions to my mom (while she was in pain and couldn't even keep water down due to scar tissue from an old surgery in her large intestine), it got really old.

I refrained from making too much of an embarrassing ruckus about it, and eventually they got her a room and a simple surgery corrected the problem, but yeesh.