General Chat

thanks Liz - perhaps we'll get somewhere at long last

Good news there then Ann, hope she stays positive and things go well for her.


Hope your son gets his op soon, his quality of life is compromised at the mo, isn't it?

Lizx

forgot to add, my friend's daughter is doing well after her double mastectomy but at the moment has lost nearly all her hair but is keeping so very positive - bless her

well would you Adam and Eve it - yesterday I had a reply from the Royal Glamorgan Hospital regarding my concerns about my son's appalling treatment - a letter I sent on the 4th March. He has still not had his op which was promised within four to six weeks - they say they will investigate the matter fully - we'll see

The only other response I had to the raft of letters I sent out was from David Cameron!!

Since the MRI scan he had a recurrence of the abscess which was zapped with antibiotics yet again and at the moment is dealing with yet another one

AnnC I hope your son gets the treatment he needs as quickly as possible and that the hospital can sort his problem after all this time. I hope you are OK too. :-)

Ann, what dreadful 'service' your son is getting, it really is unacceptable to be messed around so much. Have you contacted a local Councillor who might take things up with the necessary ministers? I hope his appointment goes ahead on Saturday.

O.h.'s sister works at our local hospital, big PFI place only a few years old. She works in a secretarial position I think, defo not nursing, but works on Saturdays and Sundays to catch up with backlog of work.

I am just glad that the few times my parents were in hospital or the hospice for my Dad, they were treated well, couldn't fault the care they had but it was in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Mersey, yet again a patient seems to have been neglected and is paying the price, so sad to see family members treated so badly especially in their latter years.

I think the cleaners in hospitals are mostly from other countries because they will accept the poor pay, but I don't think they understand the way of proper cleaning so standards have slipped.

Lizx

Dear Ann in Cardiff

Hello

Sending caring thoughts to your son and your friends daughter.

Lots of good wishes to you all
Love from Elizabeth
xx

Rant away Ann.......Hope your son gets sorted soon hun.

my son's long awaited MRI scan - an emergency!!! - was eventually scheduled for 9:00 am today = he booked a day off work and his wife changed her shifts - telephone call 4:45 pm yesterday - cancelled and rebooked for Saturday morning!! well if you recall, when he was admitted to hospital on a Friday night they needed an MRI scan but apparently they were told MRI scans could not be done at the weekend - so how come he's got one for this coming Saturday morning I'm livid - so is he - I have not had one reply from any of the people I complained to - two letters to the hospital manager of the Royal Glamorgan, one to the leader of the Welsh Assembly, one to the Health Minister at the Welsh Asembly, one to Jeremy Hunt, Health Minister in Government and one to David Cameron - not even had an acknowledgement - these people - our so called servants are ignorant beyond belief and uncaring too!! Rant over

@ Mersey

Just sending you my best wishes, its not an easy time for you and your family it
is good you all have each other for support.

Stay strong <3

Paula I have to agree with you, I have had the best medical care due to the Nhs. Just the news I received before both upset me and annoyed me.

Im off to the hospital now to be with bf and his Mum. I just want to be there to give love, hugs and support.

I am not in a position to make a judgement on all hospitals. Over the years I have had family members who have experienced some good, some bad, some deadful and some excellent.

Ann I hope you friend's daughter continues to improve on what is a difficult journey to full recovery, hopefully she will be ok. Glad you have some positive news re: your son, at long last; let us pray it will be sorted.

<3 <3

that's dreadful Mersey - make sure heads roll girl!!!!!

my daughter in law has been on nights this week - it's a ward for elderly mentally ill, male and female - sometimes it's busy, sometimes it's quiet - she told me yesterday that when it's quiet, she spends her time cleaning the treatment room and leaves it like a new pin - the rest of the staff clean the ward in general - this is because the domestics are rubbish

having said the domestics are rubbish - if you pay peanuts you get monkeys - bring back the days when the domestics were not privatised and paid by the health service - they had their own ward and took a pride in them - why should today's domestics give a toss if the ward is not clean - they are the lowest paid in the hospital and this should not be - they are just as important as the hospital manager and the doctors - they all play a part and should be treated as such

Merlin, Your point about nursing auxiliaries is more than valid, As i keep saying on most threads related to Nurses, Their are never enough "QUALIFIED" but nursing auxiliaries do have some qualifications similar to the old SEN's which where made redundant, Nurses today are "RGN's" the qualification of nurses today which includes parts of the doctors qualification so they are far more qualified than SEN's ever where, This is why as i said they have far more responsibility and a greater work load because they are effectively doing both the old SEN's job and part of the doctors job rolled into one, Could you give the name of the hospitals and wards you refer to because im sure my wife would love a job in such a hospital, She works for one hospital her main job, and does extra hours in two more hospital and never even gets time to have her break let alone chat or play computer games, Often doing a 15 hour shift with no break and to add insult to injury they still take 1 hour off their pay because it is assumed that they took a break even when it's documented that they did not, and another thing they don't get paid an overtime rate either

Roy

The Hospital you go into must be very special as most of them I have been in are uesless,If you complain about the way you are being treatedor the patient is being treated,they suffer,they gather round the nurse station basicly nattering and ignoring the buzzers from patients requiring help,I,ve even seen them playing games on the computor there as for extra work sorry not on,a few meybe do their job but lots do not.In my opinion there are far to many nursing auxilaries being used instead of what used to be SENs,at least they had some qualifications.As for repeating myself, just read your post again,then you will see what I find as funny.

Merlin, If you think my post on 11th march at14.15 is a joke then as i said in my post 12 Mar 2013 15:54 could you explain what you found so funny,

Simply repeating yourself does not explain anything

Roy

Roy, the whole of your post on 11th march at14.15. thats the joke **M**

I have been in hospital a few times and not recently. Only on 2 occasions have I witnessed poor care and only once have witnessed lack of care at a serious level. However, both patients were very elderly.

I much prefer the younger nurses who seem more interested in their jobs. Two fought over a procedure for myself and two other patients late at night.

I remember too being in a recovery ward away from the nurses station but able to hear the buzz of the Pizza delivery chap and those Pizzas were for the young patients who were starving.

I'm pleased to hear that the initial ordeal for your friend's daughter is over Ann and that your son is about to get his MRI. I hope your GP can offer a little bit more than 'grin and bear it' for your spine. I'm due to have my infusion shortly for osteoporosis but then what is OK for one patient may not be suitable for another.

Vera

friend's daughter is doing remarkably well - she is home and very upbeat

son has an MRI scan booked for next Wednesday!!! whoopee

had my results back - bloods all fine - X-ray shows degeneration of the lower spine, - age related so just have to grin and bear it

have had no acknowledgement of any of the six letters I sent regarding my son

Years back when I was in hospital, I was constantly disturbed at night by nattering nurses at the station, I heard all about one nurses labour experiences when she had her baby, and another one went on and on about her recent holiday. I was in a large ward by myself as the others had gone home so I would close the door, they would open it again but I said if you lot didn't make so much noise I wouldn't need to shut it. Oh but we need it open says they,. I made a complaint when I got out - no mobile phone then and couldn't ring when too many people in earshot - so I phoned the hospital when I got home and told them what I and others had thought, that the constant nattering disturbed everyone's sleep. I was assured something would be done about it but a few years on when I was admitted again, the same thing happened. Ridiculous and selfish of the nurses not to realise how noisy they were.

Ann I do hope your friend's daughter gets on ok especially now she will be at home.


Lizx