To the Cooper Team I just want to say again thank you very much for having such wonderful people on your team.<\/p>\n
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Dr. Elfar Muhammad than you for coming in, in the middle of the night at 1 am just\u00a0 to stitch my fingers back together again. Thanks for helping me thru it and making me laugh. You are one of the kindness, amiable Doctors Ive ever meet who work in the ER.\u00a0 Some doctors can be very unsocial able\u00a0and always in a rush to leave but you Dr. Muhammad were the complete opposite.\u00a0 You took your time and was very friendly.\u00a0 thank you for everything.<\/p>\n
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Nurse Tiffany Broaddus – thank you so so so much for being so kind and understanding to me at 1am in the morning.\u00a0 If you were tired we couldn’t\u00a0tell.\u00a0 lol.\u00a0 You are truly a special person, you helped me get thru what i consider one of the worst days of my life.\u00a0 Just by showing sympathy and compassion as well as listening to cry about my hand.\u00a0 Thanks for listening\u00a0and caring.\u00a0 PS – I hope you win the Daisy award, you truly deserve it.<\/p>\n
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Dr. Nicole Jarette – THANK YOU for changing my life.\u00a0 You are simply the best the Surgeon ever.\u00a0 You were with me thru the entire process from start to finish.\u00a0 Not one time did seem annoyed by my craziness, irritated or unwilling.\u00a0 You were super happy every time\u00a0I saw you which made me happier, you very thorough and I must say the coolest Doctor ever.\u00a0 Thank you for also helping me get thru the worst day of my life. I cant say thank you enough to express how grateful\u00a0I was to have you as my surgeon.<\/p>\n
I want to apologies for the LONG email. I tried to give it some humor so you wouldn’t be so bored reading it.<\/p>\n
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Here is my story:<\/p>\n
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On May 31, 2018 I had a major freak accident.<\/p>\n
At approximately\u00a07pm I accidentally\u00a0cut the tips of my left middle finger and my left ring finger off exposing the bone, with my immersion\u00a0blender. (How this happened I still can\u2019t believe it myself.\u00a0 If you want to know the whole story I will be more than happy to explain it in person.\u00a0 lol.)\u00a0 How I ended up at Cooper is the real the story.\u00a0 \u00a0When I cut my fingers off my first\u00a0instinct\u00a0was to go to Virtua in Berlin since its only 5 minutes away.\u00a0Nonetheless, I\u00a0regretted\u00a0going to Virtua once I got there.\u00a0 Everyone was very nice, however once they took a look at my hand it was as if I had\u00a0\u00a0two heads. They all had this confused grossed out looks on there faces, as if this was the worst thing they ever saw.\u00a0 Which made me feel worse about my hand,\u00a0extremely\u00a0uncomfortable\u00a0and\u00a0hopeless.\u00a0 Not a good feeling at all. Since I Know this is not the worst thing the ER has ever seen.<\/p>\n
Moreover…<\/p>\n
To make a very\u00a0long\u00a0story short, after the ER examined my hand, took some Xrays, wrapped it up into a boxing glove, gave me\u00a0antibiotics\u00a0and pain medicine.\u00a0 They sent me home, with directions on what to do in the morning to schedule\u00a0surgery.\u00a0 \u00a0Im thinking to myself, my\u00a0 finger looks like I just put it thru a chopping machine and my\u00a0bones\u00a0are in\u00a0pieces\u00a0and the doctor wants to send me home.\u00a0I thought that was the\u00a0craziest\u00a0thing Ive ever heard.\u00a0\u00a0Not to mention, at this point I\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0running on adrenaline anymore and started to feel some pain.<\/p>\n
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Anyways…<\/p>\n
My husband at the time was speaking to his Chief of Police (my husband is a police officer for Waterford)\u00a0 and the Chief advised him to take me to Cooper because they have the best trauma team.\u00a0 \u00a0When my husband told me that, I said “what are you crazy Im not driving all the way down there, thats like 45 min away!” “Plus Im sure the ER is packed!” My husband ignored me and said “I don’t care, Chief said to take you there because they have the best trauma team, so thats’ were we are going” “plus Im driving and your not”.\u00a0 With a whatever look on my face, I\u00a0 said ok.\u00a0 I mean lets be real here, I really didn’t have a choice since he was the driving.\u00a0 lol<\/p>\n
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Furthermore……<\/p>\n
45 minutes later we finally arrive to the ER at Cooper in Camden.\u00a0 I looked around and there wasn\u2019t that many people there so I was relieved. Once we checked in the front desk person said,”I\u2019m very sorry for what happened to you we will be with you shortly, if there is anything else I can do for you please let me know”.\u00a0 I\u00a0looked at my husband and said “wow he was very nice”.\u00a0 We go sit down and literally two second later my name is called, and right away I was taken to my room.<\/p>\n
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Tiffany (the best nurse ever) comes in so bright\u00a0 and cheery at 1am in the morning introduced herself, asked me some questions and once again I explained what I did.\u00a0 \u00a0She then asked if i could take off my\u00a0gauge\u00a0so she can take a look at my hand.\u00a0 \u00a0I said to\u00a0her “I can\u2019t look, I don\u2019t want to look at my hand, can you please do it”.\u00a0 She said with a smile on her face “yes.\u00a0 \u00a0 I was so scared to see all the damage I did, I didnt have the guts to take the wrapping off\u00a0myself.\u00a0\u00a0Tiffany. right away knew what to do and say in a situation like this.\u00a0She was super nice, very attentive, sympathetic and very astute.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not one time did she\u00a0\u00a0have that gross look on her face or seemed as if she was\u00a0confused\u00a0or scared, like my last hospital encounter.\u00a0 This made me feel comfortable and calm, I knew right away I was in good hands.\u00a0 \u00a0 She joked around and made us laugh and just made me feel better about my whole night.<\/p>\n
Then I meet Doctor Muhammad, who is super calm, mellow and patient friendly guy.\u00a0He stitched me up and we had a few laughs.<\/p>\n
Later that day I met with Dr. Jarrett.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What was so special about Dr. Jarrett is how she dealt with my shenanigans. Not one time did Dr. Jarrett make me feel as if I was being\u00a0absurd\u00a0with my request,\u00a0 made me feel uncomfortable or witless?\u00a0 She\u00a0understood\u00a0what I was going thru and was very careful with my feelings since she knew how sensitive this was.\u00a0 \u00a0 I say that because I HAD to see Dr. Jarrett twice a week for several weeks during my recovery process, to check the healing process but mainly to change my\u00a0gauge\u00a0since I\u00a0couldn’t\u00a0change the gauge myself,\u00a0 in fear that I would see my hand.\u00a0 \u00a0In addition to I\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0want anyone else look at my hand.\u00a0 \u00a0I was unable to talk about what I did and got very upset every time\u00a0someone else talked about my accident in fear of being judged or talked about.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The only time I ever felt comfortable was when I saw Dr. Jarrett.\u00a0 Dr. Jarrett knew how important it was for me to have all my fingers attached and moving, weather it was for my profession or EGO, that she made it just as important to her.\u00a0\u00a0She\u00a0truly\u00a0went\u00a0above and beyond for me,that she exceed my expectations.\u00a0 There were moments that I thought my fingers where not going to make it and Dr.\u00a0Jarrett\u00a0was there to comfort me the entire time.\u00a0 I literally asked Dr. Jarrett every visit \u201cdo you think I will be able to get my nails done again”, with\u00a0confidence\u00a0she said “ABSOLUTELY”.\u00a0\u00a0The minute I meet Dr. Jarrett, I felt comfortable and at ease and had no doubt that I was in great hands.\u00a0 Although I did not look at my fingers at all, during all of the weekly\u00a0doctor visits and after the surgery’s\u00a0I just knew that Dr. Jarrett was going to do everything she could. Today my fingers look GREAT and moving just fine, I am absolutely\u00a0happy with the end results.\u00a0 Thanks to Dr. Jarrett, I am no longer ashamed to show off my hand and able to talk about my experience.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t thank Dr. Jarrett enough for all she has done for me.\u00a0 Thank you very much Dr. Jarrett, you are truly an Angel and the best surgeon ever!!!.\u00a0TODA!!!!!! MAZEL TOV!!!<\/p>\n
COOPER HOSPITAL WILL ALWAYS BE MY NUMBER ONE CHOICE FOR HOSPITALS, THEY HAVE DOCTORS YOU CAN TRUST!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n GET YOUR COOPER ON TO BE COOPER STRONG!!!!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To the Cooper Team I just want to say again thank you very much for having such wonderful people on your team. Dr. Elfar…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kudos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36964,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/36964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}