Good Morning Good Night and General Chat.

[Tiggie]

1 hour ago, Six30 said:

good morning

 

Welcome to the forum 

[billy sugger]

1 hour ago, Six30 said:

good morning

I thought I was seeing things! 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

I've put up a fence so I can let the horses out without them getting on the railway lines.

 

I also found a postie but the bugger has gone on strike and headed off to the pub.

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

At 1.04 this afternoon my 88 year old mother fell cracking her head against a wall and, I strongly suspect, breaking her shoulder. She is in considerable pain. 

 

'Tis now over seven hours later and still no sign of the ambulance. 

 

The crew are probably knackered and overworked, it's not their fault. But this country is a shambles. 

[MikeHorton]

Roller coaster week for me what have I missed. Had my heart op on Monday morning as it was cancelled last time I kept it all quiet couldn't deal with another knockback. Managed to do as I was told and Got out yesterday, jut had the triple bypass aorta was left alone and the leaky valve not as leaky as thought so left that too. Wow I love pain relief at the moment it's my bestest friend! 

[S-Westerly]

Hope you make a good recovery in quick time. 

[MikeHorton]

1 minute ago, S-Westerly said:

Hope you make a good recovery in quick time. 

Cheers mate dhcs are making the pain better so I can walk around and get myself going again 

[dynax]

Good morning

[rennie]

1 hour ago, S-Westerly said:

Hope you make a good recovery in quick time. 

look after yourself and get well soon

[rennie]

12 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

At 1.04 this afternoon my 88 year old mother fell cracking her head against a wall and, I strongly suspect, breaking her shoulder. She is in considerable pain. 

 

'Tis now over seven hours later and still no sign of the ambulance. 

 

The crew are probably knackered and overworked, it's not their fault. But this country is a shambles. 

That's really poor! hope she's sorted soon

[Mickly]

13 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

At 1.04 this afternoon my 88 year old mother fell cracking her head against a wall and, I strongly suspect, breaking her shoulder. She is in considerable pain. 

 

'Tis now over seven hours later and still no sign of the ambulance. 

 

The crew are probably knackered and overworked, it's not their fault. But this country is a shambles. 

Unfortunately that’s just the start of it.

My Mum (82) also had a fall recently, she tried to tough it out but gave up after 3 days of no sleep, so it was off to her local minor injuries clinic, a 2 hour wait to be seen & then an hour for X-rays and CT scan didn’t seem too bad, but they were concerned about internal bleeding due to her being on Warfarin, so we were sent to A&E … 6 hours before being seen, anyway they gave her the all clear on the bleeding, just a broken finger which they strapped and an appointment at the fracture clinic 3 days later. The appointment was for 11:00 and she wasn’t seen until 14:00, had her finger put in an elasticated support and was also told that A&E had missed her broken rib, which couldn’t be fixed but at least she knows why it’s so bloody painful.

So a total of 12 hours waiting.

Judging by our experience the NHS does seems woefully understaffed.

[Grumpy Old Git]

On 14/10/2022 at 07:18, Mickly said:

You’re a week early, the Beach race is next weekend - I know this coz I is going

Got to practice!

However, they are levelling the sand this weekend. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

2 hours ago, rennie said:

That's really poor! hope she's sorted soon

I can't remember where we were up to. She fell just after 1.00pm. The ambulance arrived at 9.30pm. The crew were excellent but said the hospital was crammed so no point hurrying. She got to A&E about midnight and we're still there. She spent most of the night on a corridor which was grim. 

 

The doctor was all for sending her home today. Fortunately the physio said that was totally unsafe so she's waiting to be admitted. 

 

The system is clearly at breaking point.

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

18 hours on A&E and no sign of her getting a bed. Which means she doesn't get water or food as the A&E system seems to assume people won't be there long enough to need it. 

[dynax]

Good morning

[S-Westerly]

16 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

18 hours on A&E and no sign of her getting a bed. Which means she doesn't get water or food as the A&E system seems to assume people won't be there long enough to need it. 

At the end of August my mother was taken by ambulance at 0230 Saturday morning. She was in A&E by 0300. It took until 1730 for her to be into the intensive care Cardiac unit. Finally got something to eat and drink at 1430. She was accompanied by my 92 year old dad who wasn't in great shape either. They'd not told anybody what happened either so it was a bit of a cluster @@@@

[Mickly]

Went to the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Classic Bike Show today with some mates, a good time was had.

There were loads of beautiful bikes, here are some that made my trousers twitch 

When one turbo is not enough

And one for the perverts

 

Edited October 16, 2022 by Mickly

[Fozzie]

On 15/10/2022 at 16:41, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

18 hours on A&E and no sign of her getting a bed. Which means she doesn't get water or food as the A&E system seems to assume people won't be there long enough to need it. 

 

Unfortunately she didn't have her fall in London, where she would have been met with state of the art hospitals, and pleasant staff who are still very busy, but considerably better equipped than what you find up't north. 

I waited 3 days for my appendix to be removed earlier this year. It blew a hole in it, and I woke up having a weird seizure (rigor), which was unsettling. Ambulance never showed up, GP was amazed I was standing and tried to get me immediate admittance to the surgical ward. Took 4 hours to get by the hospital reception. Then it was 3 days of tests, and mostly waiting, with a 17 year old then coming in with the same thing as me, and being worked on first, as he wasn't tolerating the pain. It was a shambles. 

All I've heard from friends in London is it's busy, but they are seen and treated in much quicker times, in much better facilities. 

 

I'm working at Macclesfield hospital at the moment, the place that worked on me when I was in an accident at 19, it's looking fairly rough now. And the place wants to de-gas and switch to heat pumps... Haven't the heart to tell them what that's going to do to their electricity bill. Even with gas what it is. 

[S-Westerly]

To be fair when my 10 year old grandson collapsed half an hour after arriving at A&E he was immediately rushed in to a scan where they diagnosed a perforated bowel due to some odd condition and therefore peritonitis. He was operated on at 0200 the next morning so 8 hours between arriving at A&E and operation. That included a blue light transfer from Durham to Newcastle RVI.

[Tiggie]

I have been extremely fortunate and have only needed A&E twice in my life. Once when I was 5 and split my head open running into a wall 

 

The other time was about 2 years ago on Easter weekend. I woke up at 3am with one side of my face completely swollen, my top lip looked like a boxer after a bad loss!!  Was a tooth abscess.  

 

I went to A&E fully prepared with a water bottle, charging bank for my phone and my Kindle to read. I was in and out within 30 minutes  Kind of makes me feel guilty for what most have to go through 

[rennie]

Good Morning 

[dynax]

Good morning

[Fozzie]

11 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

To be fair when my 10 year old grandson collapsed half an hour after arriving at A&E he was immediately rushed in to a scan where they diagnosed a perforated bowel due to some odd condition and therefore peritonitis. He was operated on at 0200 the next morning so 8 hours between arriving at A&E and operation. That included a blue light transfer from Durham to Newcastle RVI.

 

I think as I saw with the 17 year old, the youngsters get priority. Which you'd expect, and I was ok with at the time, it was the nurses I know personally who felt I'd been poorly treated, and let me in on the time frame you're meant to be seen with my problem. And I wasn't alone, I was in a room with 5 others who were in varying states, one with an appendix issue same as me, but he'd been left too long and needed an infection draining. 

 

My area (Manchester) has seen hospitals close, and everything be focused on Wythenshawe, and it can't take it. And I've heard complaints from areas around me, Macclesfield, Southport, Liverpool to name some. And at work I've recently be moved to public sector, so seeing a lot of hospitals, and there's a clear pattern emerging I'm sorry to say. 

 

Before this, I'd have sung the high praises of the NHS. Now, I think its been broken by a few factors, from poor government, to no one addressing the bloated middle management layer I routinely hear nothing but scorn about. 

[S-Westerly]

The bloated middle management desperately needs cutting.

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

I am trying to visit my mother. I had to use the car to bring my dad who can't walk very far but all the disabled parking spaces were full, so we ended up on the top floor of the multi storey car park.

 

We get to the stairwell and the fire alarm goes off. The lifts therefore stop working which makes sense. But then all the doors lock with magnetic locks. Which is great unless you happen to be in a stairway at the time!

 

Fortunately it's clearly a false alarm, but if there was a fire we have no way out of the stairwell. Bonkers!