If you don’t have time to check that one out the doctor said
that if my temperature lasts more than three days I should go to the
hospital...No Way!
My Nan went in to hospital for an operation that ‘rid her of
cancer’ a week after the op she died...of cancer. The funny thing is she kept
saying “I’m dying” we were like, “no you’re not, your fine” because the doctor
had said she was cured, he had got rid of all her cancer. She had bad pains so
we took her back to the hospital, even then the doctor said “What are you doing
here? There is nothing wrong with you.” But there was, and she knew that better
than any doctor. A few days later she died and what did the autopsy find out?
That she died of Cancer!
Another example is that of my neighbor's mum who went in to
hospital after a fall in which she hit her head. She was ‘checked’ over and
they found she had a bad liver. A few days later my neighbor noticed a strange
smell coming from her mother’s room she went to look at her head and found an
oozing pussy bloody smelly mess. When she questioned the nurse, she was told “Oh
I didn’t know she had a bad head.” The doctor said the same thing but that’s
why she was originally there, for falling and hitting her head, despite this
there was nothing about her head in her medical notes. But how could it have
gone unnoticed when it was oozing blood and smelly puss?
My own experiences with hospitals are very slim. I do not go
to them and I have never stayed in one. But the one time I had to go they did not
have the right equipment. My smear had shown abnormalities and pre-cancerous
cells and I was called in for a biopsy, the first one went well although the
results were abnormal so I was called back for a second one. The gynecologist had a look with a camera, as did I, as there was a TV with a massive image of
my vagina on it, which was seriously off putting. Not only are you going to feel
me ripping you in two with the smallest clamp I can be bothered to find but you’re
going to see it too. Then she shoves a camera and cotton bud up there and puts
dye in that changes colour, to which she explains “Yes you need another biopsy,
the cells are abnormal. But I don’t have the right equipment for that. So we
will have to call you back.” That was two months ago, I’m still waiting to hear
whether they have the ‘right equipment’ yet.
Here’s another example, my other Nan was admitted in to
hospital New Years day because she fell over. They sent her back home and the next
day she was readmitted with a broken leg. They took her in to operate and
during the operation found out she hadn’t just broken one leg but both of them.
So her operation went from one leg to two while in the operating theatre
causing her to lose a lot of blood and ending up in the ICU unit. Luckily she
pulled through. But that is just the beginning of my complaints about her stay.
While in the ICU they said she wouldn’t eat we went in and found out that the
reason for that was she hadn’t been given her false teeth. So we had to go to
find her possessions which were in a plastic bag in the old ward. When she was
then sent to another ward, after waiting all day to be moved, we made sure her
things went with her.
In the new ward things didn’t get much better. First of all they
complained that again she was not eating. We went to make sure she had her
teeth in this time and we found they were simply putting the food in front of
her. Which would be fine...If she could see. We were very surprised that no one
had picked up on the fact that she is partially sighted. So we told them and after
a few days they finally put up a sign at her bed. But guess what? It doesn’t end
there. The other day we found blisters or bed sores on her heels that no one
had noticed. Now this means she hasn’t been checked over, had her bed changed,
been washed, asked if she feels any pain, and raises all sorts of questions.
One most notably being that the physiotherapist’s advice, to get her out of bed
and in to a chair daily, has not happened.
Hospitals and the NHS have been in the news for numerous mistakes
just last week there was a story of a woman who went in for a bypass and died
because they left a hole in her stomach. It’s not good enough. But of course
their argument is ‘We are understaffed due to funding’. That does not explain
why people who work for them don’t use their brains, notice simple things or do
what they are supposed to. No wonder so many accidents happen and there are so
many unexplained deaths.
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