hospital care (less)

[Turion]

Expat, She is your family. You ought to take her home and care for her there. Just like it used to be done. Old people who could recover at home should not be clogging up hospitals. They take a disproportionate amount of finite resources. You should be taking responsibility instead of complaining. If you or your partner needs to take time off / stop working, that is a sacrifice you should be considering.

[expat]

Expat, She is your family. You ought to take her home and care for her there. Just like it used to be done. Old people who could recover at home should not be clogging up hospitals. They take a disproportionate amount of finite resources. You should be taking responsibility instead of complaining. If you or your partner needs to take time off / stop working, that is a sacrifice you should be considering.

We have obviously thought of that. She could not recover at home until she gets the physio. Meantime, my OH and her dad together could not get her to the toilet. My OH wanted to cut her work to 3 days per week but her employer refused, wouldn't even listen to why ("we've all got problems at home"). She will not just quit because she's already scared tulipless that I'll be out of work in 5 weeks. It would need me to take time off work, and that would have us out on the street soon. Incidentally she and her husband live in a bungalow, but we do not. I can't see her in our house, and in her own, she would need care.

Meantime we do have the answer: a short and effective period in hospital. Without this efffing about.

She just needs:
1. decent treatment.
2. take the effing catheter out, lazy bastards, and don't do cold-turkey smoking withdrawal on a sick 85-year-old.
3. give her the physio, then let her go home.

And BTW it is offensive to describe her as "clogging up" the hospital, as if it were a nuisance to have people needing treatment; but I will assume you weren't intending to be personal there.

[Gibbon]

my grand uncle is 94 this year. every time i visit him he tells me the same thing: "my dad, when he was old, told me "son, don't get old. it's terrible" and he was right, it is terrible" he then pats me on the knee and mournfully mutters; "don't get old".

This is so true, 80-85 and then big heart attack in the dead before hitting the ground would be my choice.

Unfortunately that won't be so as in the next 5-10 years I'll be on a list waiting for some poor bugger to die.

[expat]

This is so true, 80-85 and then big heart attack in the dead before hitting the ground would be my choice.

Unfortunately that won't be so as in the next 5-10 years I'll be on a list waiting for some poor bugger to die.

Sorry to hear that.

[HairyArsedBloke]

<any> hospital.
the ward was staffed by 90% African ladies who really truly didn't give a f..k the few Irish/English/East European nurses there had practically given up on getting them to pull their weight and be conscientious and pro-active.

They were gruff, barely intelligible, let the place get filthy and were quite happy for it to stay like that while they sat on their fat asses.

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The whole air of apathy and laziness just pervaded the place...truly rotten to the core.

But...I wonder if it's just certain hospitals or wards?

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If you're going to get ill don't do it in an large inner city area.

Having just had some medical treatment, I can confirm that this is normal.

However, I did get what I paid for.

[norrahe]

The good old nhs attitude doesn't just apply to the old.

A friends of mine was diagnosed with chrons disease, it took them 18 months to appoint her with a nutritionist and a dietician and a further 18 months to operate.

Surely the first thing when you are diagnosed with a potentially life threatening ilness that impacts on your dietary needs is to tell you what the hell you can and can't eat and what could cause potenital problems.

[threaded]

Don't you lot go knocking hospital food! One of my chip shops, near a hospital, does a roaring trade with visitors coming buying food for the literally starving inmates.

We even sell cut flowers and bags of grapes on market days too!

[_V_]

Don't you lot go knocking hospital food! One of my chip shops, near a hospital, does a roaring trade with visitors coming buying food for the literally starving inmates.

We even sell cut flowers and bags of grapes on market days too!

You used to boast about women, Lamborghinis and travel now you boast about chip shops?

[threaded]

You used to boast about women, Lamborghinis and travel now you boast about chip shops?

Yes, I have several chip shops in the UK. One of my Plan B's that happened quite by accident. I am quite proud of them.

[cojak]

My Pa's in hospital at the moment....