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New Year’s Eve ER: Accused of Drug-Seeking, Then Rushed Back by Ambulance

Day 4 · 2:06:13 · Glen Motz · Shannon Holmes

  • 🚫 Once heart attack was ruled out, staff assumed New Year’s Eve drug-seeking despite his clean heavy-equipment medical records.
  • 📞 Sent home, he received an urgent call that the CT showed he was extremely sick and would die without immediate return.
  • 🛏️ He went straight into ICU, was told he might not survive, smiled “let’s rock and roll,” and woke from a three-week coma roughly six months later.

Initial dismissal nearly cost him his life before the true diagnosis forced emergency readmission.

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Transcript

Glen Motz · 2:06:13

You, you were actually— it was made clear to you that they have no interest in treating you because they think you're there drug seeking, correct?

Shannon Holmes · 2:06:21

And because I, uh, operated heavy trucks and machinery, I would always have blood tests done And, um, and I'm always on top of my health. I go for yearly these wide-spectrum blood tests. And I said to them, I said, if you'd like, check my file. I don't use drugs. I've never used drugs. And you'll be able to see that in my medical records. But being New Year's Eve, I guess there's a few people who thought it would be, you know, I was there to extend the party of some kind, right?

Glen Motz · 2:06:47

Right.

Speaker B · 2:06:48

No.

Glen Motz · 2:06:48

Okay, so they, so they basically dismiss you on New Year's Eve, but you end Right back there.

Speaker E · 2:06:53

Right.

Shannon Holmes · 2:06:53

So I ended up going home and I ended up getting a phone call from the doctor at the hospital and he asked where I was. And I was back home in bed because, you know, being in the hallway of a hospital is very uncomfortable. So I went back home again and the doctor called and told me I was extremely sick and they were going to send an ambulance for me and come pick me back up because I need to get to the hospital because I wouldn't be alive if I didn't get in fast.

Glen Motz · 2:07:16

And that's because they'd done a CT scan and finally looked at it.

Shannon Holmes · 2:07:19

It and said, saw what was going on. Um, so I went back into the hospital and, uh, um, I'm not sure where they put me, but I think I went straight into the, uh, the ICU. I can't really remember, but I just remember more and more doctors coming in and having more and more tubes, and, and then, uh, they hit you right away with heavy-duty drugs and everything starts just becoming kind of, you know, blurry and blended together, right?

Glen Motz · 2:07:43

It was communicated that you weren't likely to survive though, right?

Shannon Holmes · 2:07:47

Right before they put me into the coma, one of the nurses came over and kind of held my hand and she said, uh, you know, you're gonna have to fight like hell and you might not make it through this, or something to that effect. Um, and I just looked at her and I said, okay. And, um, I remember one of the nurses was sitting there and I mistook her for another person I knew. I thought it was a friend in the room. So I thought very carefully about it, one of my last words to be. So I looked at her and I smiled, like, all right, let's rock and roll. And, uh, that was it. And then I remember waking up, uh, after the coma, and my, uh, my nurse was standing there going, welcome back. And that was about 3 weeks later.

Glen Motz · 2:08:23

And you were in the hospital for roughly 5 months?

Shannon Holmes · 2:08:26

Uh, almost 6, almost 6 months. And, uh, I think they would have kept me there longer, but I'm a bit of a fussy patient, and I told them as soon as my legs work well enough to get out of here, I'm going home because, uh You know, I felt I was in almost like a prison, you know, and it's not a very nice place to be living, especially during the pandemic. I mean, the, the worst thing was you'd see doves on the door and that meant the person had passed away and they're supposed to give them space to grieve with their loved one. And mostly, like, especially in the ICU, there's just body bags going by constantly. And, and, you know, you're sitting there intubated looking at everything. And it's quite scary because you're, you know, you realize that you could be in the next one leaving that hospital, right? And, uh, you know, there's no coming back from this. This is, this is it. You're, you're right there on death's door. And, uh, and I just use that to fight harder to get back here today, right?

Glen Motz · 2:09:22

So you ended up— you, you spoke about this cyst, and it, it, it was a problem.