Sorry folks, too much personal information, I don't know what I was thinking of. Posted late when I was tired and then went off to bed. My apologies if I've upset/disgusted anybody.
Thatâs ok @Lizzie27 ⊠itâs all part of the human experience and we need to be able to discuss it if we want things to improve ⊠many hospital wards are so short staffed at the moment that they cannot treat their patients safely, let alone with dignity ⊠unless people know the reality theyâll believe this governmentâs continual whitewash and blaming of the hospital staff rather than their own shameful underfunding and lack of honesty.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove, the A&E admittance ward I was put into first didn't appear to be understaffed, in fact it looked like there was more staff than patients, at least for most of the morning. There seemed to be quite a lot of chit-chat and laughter going on. I rather think it was more a lack of organisation than anything else. The ward was called the 'Pitstop' ! strange name.
@Lizzie27 my wife literally saw a physio for 5 minutes on Friday afternoon. That time included the physio trying 3 different walking frames to get one to the right height and width and then getting my wife to walk 10 feet, turn round and get back to bed. Physio then said she would get a frame of the correct size, brought it in and put it at the end of the bed and left. On the way out she said another physio would probably be up on Saturday morning. So far (13:02 on Sunday) there has been no evidence of one. Staff on the ward tried to get hold of physio all Saturday afternoon but nobody answered their phone. The other strange thing today was that my wife was taken down for more x-rays. According to one doctor earlier in the week she needed more x-rays before doing physio. According to another doctor who came in while I was there on Thursday she would have physio but no more x-rays until she was being discharged.
Neither scenario can be reality because (a) she had had a physio session albeit very brief and (b) she can't be discharged until physio confirm she can get up and down stairs. As we haven't even seen another physio we are nowhere near that stage.
The only positive so far is that she was told that the x-rays show the surgeon has done a really good job.
I was just home from visiting my good lady and decided to do the little bit of washing up there was. Turned the tap on and my phone rang. Phone was in the living room, and it was my wife with an update. You can probably guess the rest! Got to wait for the ground floor socket circuit to dry out before I can switch anything on downstairs. I'll leave it overnight and keep my fingers crossed. Hopefully the laminate floor wont have come up.
The saga of my wife's hospital stay continues. After effectively having no contact with physio's other than the 5 minutes on Friday, 3 appeared when I was there yesterday afternoon. Lovely ladies who said something to the effect of "We've just come to check you're OK on stairs and then you can go home". I suspect the looks on our faces gave something away, and it was their turn to look surprised when my wife told them the limit of previous contact with physio's. That wasn't their fault, and they started from scratch again. My wife actually walked the entire length of the corridor which must be 30 yards or more, and then they got her onto stairs using one crutch. She was knackered at the end of that and came back in a wheelchair. Despite that they wanted her to try walking with 2 crutches, which she refused point blank. She was already pouring with sweat and bright red so it was agreed that they would leave it and maybe come back later. The first session had been at about 3pm. One did come back later but only to let my wife know that she clearly wasn't going home yesterday as her meds hadn't been set up. My wife explained that she hadn't seen a doctor for 2 days, the wounds haven't been checked, and the bandages and dressings haven't been replaced yet. She won't go home until all that has been done.
Just another example of the appalling communication in the hospital.
Itâs like a joke, @KT53, except itâs not even remotely funny. Maybe you could organise a chat with the PALs department at the hospital next time you are visiting ( Patient Liaison) They really need to have this sort of occurrence documented somewhere.
Iâve recently changed washing liquid and fabric conditioner from my previous (Unilever) brand. Very happy with the replacement, but because Iâm not so familiar with it, I went and put the washing liquid in the fabric conditioner dispenser, and vice versa. Very annoyed at the waste, and the delay while I had to wash out and dry the dispenser drawer. Feel very stupid.
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My apologies if I've upset/disgusted anybody.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I rather think it was more a lack of organisation than anything else. The ward was called the 'Pitstop' ! strange name.
Hope @KT53's poor wife has seen a physio by now.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.