[kj] O/T Thanks for the messages

[sade1]

Rant away, by all means. Every word well spoken there. It's beyond sorry to 
stomach the details of your dad's care while in hospital.
 
What you've said makes a person wanna hate, because you just know that kind of 
shit&conditions couldn't happen just "out of the blue," out of sheer 
coincidence. Impossible. You just know someone had to be involved, and still 
doesn't care, regardless. 
 



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From: Brian Whitehead <bawhitehead at gmail.com>
To: Gathering <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 3:20:12 AM
Subject: [kj] O/T Thanks for the messages


Thanks for all the mails of sympathy.

A rant:


My dad (88) was in and out of hospital 3 times over the last few weeks because 
as soon as was discharged he went straight back in. He’d had a heart attack just 
before Christmas which he survived which resulted in him having a pacemaker 
fitted.

At his last hospital stay: I went round to visit him last Friday at around 
3:30pm and as I walked into the ward I saw a forlorn figure slumped in a chair 
in the waiting room in front of a TV with kids TV on surrounded by his bags and 
belongings – my dad. They were discharging him again!!!!! It was just a case of 
waiting from his medication to arrive from the hospital pharmacy and then they’d 
get an ambulance to take him home. He’d been there since around 1pm and they had 
not contacted me or my sister to let us know, they had absolutely no idea of his 
circumstances at home, whether he had food in or even if he had a key to get in. 

 
I sat with him until 6:30 when his medication finally arrived and by which time 
he was getting very desperate and just wanted to lie down. There is no way I 
could put him through another couple of hours sat in that chair waiting for an 
ambulance to take him home so I grabbed a wheel chair and pushed him through the 
maze of the hospital and to my car on the car park. It was a massive struggle as 
it was cold windy and rainy but I eventually managed to get him home and sat in 
his favorite chair. I was just about to getting the heating sorted out when he 
started to complain of chest pains – his heart was giving in again. Long story 
short – called 999 and within a hour of arriving back home he was back in the 
hospital battling for his life, which he eventually lost around 12 hours later.

In off the reord chats with staff they tell me that the pressures on the helath 
service and to free up space is even greater with the cuts. So if I hear another 
politician use the phrase "We're all in this together", when certain sections of 
commerce are earnig huge profits again, I'll explode.

Do I sound bitter...yes, good.


Rant over

Brian.



      
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