Thank you NHS !

[fastbob]

Just an update . I'm in hospital for the third time now . Lungs and ribs doing well but I have fluid retention overload that is responding well to treatment . Here's an example of the madness that can occur in here . The guy opposite me is deaf and he's lost his hearing aid . He can , however , lipread really well . He has a particularly odd way of speaking so the member of the night staff eventually gave up shouting at him , turned to a colleague and said " He is Polish "  So I had to intervene . I explained that he was deaf and a good lip reader but the staff member declined to remove his mask !   

 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

You know you're in the presence of idiots when someone who can't use either arm due to severe arthritis in their right shoulder and a broken left shoulder, and A&E have lost their sling so they have to ask for a new one.

 

Eventually a nurse arrives with a new sling sealed in a shrink wrapped plastic package that is stronger than the heat shield on the space shuttle, lobs it on the bed out of reach, says 'here's your new sling' and walks off.

 

 

Edited December 16, 2022 by Mississippi Bullfrog

[bonio]

Are you sure the nurse wasn't really Ronnie Barker in drag?

[fastbob]

Discharge today . Fourth time lucky I hope . On the whole , I still have nothing but the highest admiration for the NHS and everyone who works in it . Some of the night carers could be a little less brutal but they do put up with a lot of shit  . 

[Bender]

8 hours ago, fastbob said:

Discharge today . Fourth time lucky I hope . On the whole , I still have nothing but the highest admiration for the NHS and everyone who works in it . Some of the night carers could be a little less brutal but they do put up with a lot of shit  . 

Good luck on 4th attempt Bob  

[Old-codger]

Good luck Bob hope it goes well and you are on the mend this time. I should think the cat will wonder who you are when you finally get home.

[fastbob]

On 20/12/2022 at 08:11, Old-codger said:

Good luck Bob hope it goes well and you are on the mend this time. I should think the cat will wonder who you are when you finally get home.

The poor old fella has been very confused but he's alright now . 

[jhonesnow]

On 11/12/2022 at 13:00, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Having got my mother out of hospital she has made good progress over the past 48 hours. I have discovered she has had a long term condition which the hospital ignored and failed to take into account whilst she was there. This is the reason she was deteriorating whilst in hospital.

 

There was nothing they could do for her broken shoulder other than administer painkillers. But over 8 weeks stay they ignored an existing medical condition which needed simple daily treatment, hence she declined in mobility and health. 

 

The day after she got out her own GP visited her, tore up the medication the hospital sent her home with, prescribed what she really needed, and she's showing the first signs of improvement since her fall. 

 

Most of the nurses were good. A couple were just small minded little dictators. The doctors were generally clueless. They looked at the broken shoulder and ignored the rest of her needs. 

 

I'm thinking of trying to get them to move house so in future they can go to a different hospital. When my father was taken ill whilst visiting us he ended up in our local hospital which was excellent. 

 

Issue is the consideration shifts even starting with one ward then onto the next. My father by marriage was conceded quite a while back with a renal issue and left in a bed on one ward where he was disregarded for a really long time, no treatment, no consideration. Therefore he created bed ulcers behind him. They didn't see them until they had become contaminated and difficult.

Then they tranferred him to a renal ward, where the medical caretakers were essentially lethargic and coldhearted. The spot was foul: poo and pee all over the place. Visiting was completely 2pm to 4pm. He was left there in horrendous agony for a long time while the specialists settled on no conclusions about his consideration. In the end the diseases had spread up until this point that he needed to have the two legs excised over the knee. He burned through three weeks on a third ward, for the removals, where the medical caretakers could never have been kinder. The ward was perfect. We could visit when we needed. As far as he might be concerned, those were three blissful weeks in a half year of unadulterated hopelessness. Regrettably, they sent him back to the subsequent ward, however they before long released him after that.

He at no point ever strolled in the future, and needed to use whatever remains of his life in a nursing home. 

[bonio]

So @jhonesnow, that was weird. That was basically my post from earlier in the thread, but put through google translate a couple of times or something like that so that "father in law" changed to "father by marriage" and so on all the way through. And then your other posts are things like "thanks man that was so helpful" - even to an article skimmed off the internet by the admin bot. This final point is so clearly not what any human would do, which means you've failed the Turing Test.

I call you out as a bot.

[S-Westerly]

Could well be. The English is certainly strained. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

My father-in-law is 92. Last May he developed a chest infection leading to pneumonia and sepsis. We very nearly lost him. He had 3 weeks in hospital then 2 weeks with us at home. 

 

At that time we were quite impressed with the care he received. 

 

This weekend he has developed another chest infection and gone downhill rapidly. New Year's day afternoon my wife rang 111 and after hearing his age and history they said someone would ring us within 2 hours. 8 hours later we hadn't heard anything so she chased them up.

 

At 9.00pm he was prescribed a large dose of antibiotics. That was the evening of New Year's day so the local chemists were all closed. He is in North Liverpool,  the only place to get medical supplies was a pharmacy at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral,  who close at 10.00pm. 

 

I've never been to Arrowe Park Hospital which seems to be huge, especially at night in heavy rain. I pulled into the grounds at 9.50pm thinking there's no way I'm going to find this pharmacy. Drove completely at random looking for somewhere to park, went down an ambulance only road because I couldn't see the road markings, and turning round in a nasty dark corner of the site came across a mobile unit which was the pharmacy. The guys in the pharmacy didn't bat an eyelid at me arriving very last minute, and he got his medication. 

 

The chances of me finding the pharmacy on time were pretty slim, I still can't believe how it happened.  

[Bianco2564]

Top marks to our GP surgery today, had a bit of a plumbing issue the last couple of days.

Mrs B rang them up about 3.30 this afternoon, no appointments available unsurprisingly,  Mrs said weĺl what can I do to get me seen as I have stage 4 kidney disease , she said the receptionist changed her tone and said the duty doctor would call. Within 10 mins they rang back and prescribed some antibiotics.

Shot up to the surgery , collected the prescription and went to the local chemist for the pills.

Aĺl done and dusted in less than 1hr.

[MikeHorton]

9 hours ago, Bianco2564 said:

Top marks to our GP surgery today, had a bit of a plumbing issue the last couple of days.

Mrs B rang them up about 3.30 this afternoon, no appointments available unsurprisingly,  Mrs said weĺl what can I do to get me seen as I have stage 4 kidney disease , she said the receptionist changed her tone and said the duty doctor would call. Within 10 mins they rang back and prescribed some antibiotics.

Shot up to the surgery , collected the prescription and went to the local chemist for the pills.

Aĺl done and dusted in less than 1hr.

Hope they start to kick in and you feel better soon mate 

[Throttled]

Two months ago my wife was misdiagnosed over a telephone consultation and given the wrong meds, that made her situation worse & last week my father was sent home from hospital without all the meds he was supposed to have, which has delayed his recovery. But, when I see how under pressure the doctors and nurses are, I can only blame the Tories and all their underfunding.