T1 husband is home!

Glad he's home for you Hana. Hope you get some rest soon

Look after yourself as well,Hana.

Best make it a large dash of red wine, Hana. It is friday after all!

All the best to you and yours,
timo.

As Sue said, don't forget to look after yourself too, Hana.

That's brilliant news. And a great turnaround, obviously caught in the nick of time?!

I have just heard from a T2 friend who is being admitted next week to have the top third of his foot removed, hey ho...

love to u both, try and have a restful weekend

Good news, Hana, take care, luv to you both

Great news Hana, have a great weekend. Look after yourself too. you are a lovely lady.

Hope he accepts your care plan for him & gets better.

Have a nice quiet day celebrating Amelie's birthday

hanadr said:

I fetched him this afternoon, but had to leave the hospital without the antibiotics, which hadn't arrived from the pharmacy. We'll collect them tomorrow.

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You're lucky they let him out without them.

When my mother was in some time ago they rang me around lunchtime to tell me she was ready to collect.

When I got there they told me they couldn't release her until her drugs from the pharmacy had arrived. Then they told me the drugs hadn't arrived because there was a question about the dosage. Strangely the doctor who I was talking to earlier had left and we had to wait until he came back from his break.

It turned out the drugs had been there all along and there was nothing wrong with the dose at all. They were just bullsheeting us because the nurses didn't want to wheel her to the door, they were waiting until after the shift change. Then they wouldn't release her until they had dealt with all the patients who were staying in. By this time she had had nothing to eat for several hours and was crying with frustration, and they'd kept me in so long I could no longer get to the shops to buy food for us.

When we finally got her home we discovered that the drugs they were allegedly having problems with were one that she had a plenteous stock of at home. BUT they had failed to prescribe a different one, despite her having it in the ward, and worse still they had confiscated her supply which she had taken in with her. So we had to make an emergency GP appointment.

The *medical* treatment there was first class but the nurses were not only severely overworked but stroppy and unhelpful, and the matron was worse and just plain lied to our faces. There were big notices on the wall threatening dire consequences to anyone who caused trouble in the hospital, but this didn't seem to apply to the staff.

Hope your lot were a tad better.

One of my problems with the NHS constitution is that there is a duty on the patient to treat NHS staff with respect, but nowhere in the constitution is that responsibility reciprocated.

Regards, Tubs.

During my 5 week stay in 2007 I ended up keeping a daily diary of events, as supporting evidence if I had taken legal action against the Trust, which at one stage was a real possibility.

The diary makes for a shocking read regarding hygiene, attitude, priorities, confusion, misinformation, lying, disorganisation, incorrect drug administering, oh and incompetence too. There were a few good people around but plenty of muppets thrown in for good measure!

My memories continue to be a strong motivator today to take such good care of myself I never have to go back as an in-patient. That's the hope anyway...

tubolard said:

One of my problems with the NHS constitution is that there is a duty on the patient to treat NHS staff with respect, but nowhere in the constitution is that responsibility reciprocated.

Regards, Tubs.

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Perzackerly!

We are lucky to be equidistant between three hospitals here. One is head and shoulders above the others for patient care. They're all pretty equally busy (there's a LOT of pressure on the staff) but given the choice we will always go there for that reason.

Where we used to live, when I was in the local hospital in 1984 it was brilliant, by 1991 it had become **** and several years later it featured on the BBC as one of the worst in the country. If mother had gone there instead of the one they sent her to (Casualty was full as usual, with an ambulance jam in the yard) I doubt she would still be here.

It's not nearly that bad here (yet) but there's a distinct difference in the arrogance with which they treat patients.

kegstore said:

During my 5 week stay in 2007 I ended up keeping a daily diary of events, as supporting evidence if I had taken legal action against the Trust, which at one stage was a real possibility.

The diary makes for a shocking read regarding hygiene, attitude, priorities, confusion, misinformation, lying, disorganisation, incorrect drug administering, oh and incompetence too. There were a few good people around but plenty of muppets thrown in for good measure!

My memories continue to be a strong motivator today to take such good care of myself I never have to go back as an in-patient. That's the hope anyway...

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BRI or the other one?