hospital care (less)

[BrowneIssue]

When my Dad was in hospital, they could not provide a correct diet for his diabetes. He kept swinging between hyper / hypo so in the end my Mum took all his meals in.

My Mum went in in October to have a lump looked at. They put her in a bed and then day after day it was not convenient to do any tests. She asked to go home but they said "Now you're here you'd better stay until we can do the tests."

They decided to put her on oxygen to save her moving around. (huh?)

If at all possible, do NOT allow your crumblies to be given oxygen 'just in case'. Apparently it causes lung infections.

Oxygen --> lung infection --> pneumonia --> death.

That's how my Mum died. From pneumonia she contracted while in hospital.

Tossers.

And those wards still are not clean.

And she was in a mixed ward when waiting in Surgical and when in Intensive Care.

Sorry, cojak.

Edit: bollocks. That was post 1000.

[expat]

They moved her again. Put the call buttons on the head of the bed where she couldn't reach them, then pissed off before she could say so. Back to nurses' station for gossip session. Gran was in the very next bed to nurses' station: called out repeatedly but they were too busy yakking. Eventually shat her bed. This is a respectable old lady who is NOT incontinent. Can you imagine the embarrassment? With it came anger. This also came from her husband when he visited and found her with the curtains closed round the bed. What has happened? Answer: nurses were too busy chatting, patient's cries went unattended, just let her soil the bed. OH also angry, fired off phone calls and emails.

I mean, if they didn't hear her cries, they wouldn't have heard her dying.

Bring back matron.

[threaded]

I remember watching a documentary about the treatment of captured British soldiers by the Japanese during WWII. There was a comment one of the old guys came up with that I think fits the modern NHS.

He said something like: "To survive you had to have a mate. If you got sick and you didn't have a mate you were dead: you had no one to look after you. And without a mate to look after you: you didn't get food, you didn't get water, but at least it was quick."