Mrsa

[Ian Leach]

I know the feeling, I was in a few weeks ago and the night staff were crap and thats putting it nicely. Asking for pain relief was like asking them to cut their own arm off. They wouldn't let my wife in after the surgery or even tell her if it went ok. Don't get me wrong the day shift were great, But i got the feeling i was been rushed out. So in the end i thought family and friends would do a better job.

[skyhuck]

Since the begining of last December I have spent much time in the local hospital, with my Beloved as a patient. I saw dying men who will never return home, men suffering the aftermath of serious surgery, who without visitors would have languished alone.

 

If I never again had to go to a hospital I would not fret, but when needs must, someone needs to look out for loved ones, as doctors and nurses do not always have the time to fully care for ill people. Also they are subject to that balance of working a job in which all the people they attend are quite ill, which can bring about a discompassion, or a cavalier attitude with regard to patients. Just as if one works at an old peoples home, one must get used to death eventually, which changes one. However slightly.

 

That said, sometimes a patient needs more than an injection, or bloodwork, or a catheter check. Sometimes they need reassurance, someone who will attend to them as a unique individual. Loved ones can provide this, visiting hours permit this.

 

I have gone through two sets of intestinal surgery with my companion, both times he suffered from neglect. The first of which left him without any pain relief for fifteen hours, when this was remedied he was turned over three times, without anyone considering that an injection of morphine might prevent him screaming like a mortally wounded animal.

 

He awoke in recovery after the second operation feeling half the surgery site. He had to go barnyard to prevent them from turning him over to put in a second epidural, despite it being on the anethetists file to give him a morphine pump should the epidural fail to work.

 

That night, he remained unattended by any nurse, as verified by the lack of a single observation noted on his chart (there were entries for following days and nights), my own observation over a four hour period on the mobile with him, and the state in which I found him the following day. I won't go into details about the dread of that night, or the following three days.

 

I do not exaggerate when I say it was a horrendous affair but it saved his life, for which I am immensely relieved. I am truly grateful that he did not have to go through it entirely on his own.

 

That is a shocking and frightning tale.

 

I hope the future brings you both more peace and happiness.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Understaffing and underfunding

 

One nurse doing the job of three.

 

Need I say any more

[Zenfordinner]

That is a shocking and frightning tale.

 

I hope the future brings you both more peace and happiness.

 

Thank you. Things are already looking up, thankfully.

 

It has been a long haul, but as the Russians say, 'what does not kill you makes you stronger, what does not make you stronger, kills you'!

[treejumper]

Shocking story zenfordinner.

- Glad things are looking up.

[Zenfordinner]

Shocking story zenfordinner.

- Glad things are looking up.

 

Thank you.

I am pleased to report that the Beloved has put on nearly a stone (bringing him to ten stone), and we walked about a mile around the fields yesterday evening- the first proper walk he has managed since the surgery almost a month ago. Made my heart swell

[treejumper]

Thank you.

I am pleased to report that the Beloved has put on nearly a stone (bringing him to ten stone), and we walked about a mile around the fields yesterday evening- the first proper walk he has managed since the surgery almost a month ago. Made my heart swell

 

Nice to see he's on the mend!

[skyhuck]

Thank you.

I am pleased to report that the Beloved has put on nearly a stone (bringing him to ten stone), and we walked about a mile around the fields yesterday evening- the first proper walk he has managed since the surgery almost a month ago. Made my heart swell

 

Good news

 

So glad he's on the mend,our health is every thing,when we are well we can often take it for granted.:wave: