No desk I'm afraid..... I'm away visiting.....another hospital!!!
If I'm home later, I'll update....
UPDATE:
Back home safe and sound with a lot more tablets!!!
Quite an experience!
Staff were all wonderful as per usual, not much sleep . . . . then discharged
Left to get home on my own . . . . . in my night clothes . . . .. 18.00hrs . . . . dark, wet Autumn night.
Not eligible for hospital transport so I had no option but to go on the bus . . . . but would they let this little old lady in her nightclothes outside a hospital on the bus!! that was the question.
And how was I going to even walk to the bus stop without any stick or walker . . . . then again through town to my second bus . . . . then a 'normal' 20mins walk to my house . . . . very difficult questions.
The main problem was that I did not fit the criteria for hospital assisted transport as I did not need oxygen and was mobile (no wheelchair). I don't think the fact I was in my night clothes and had no personal transport came into the question . . . . I was very upset and the nursing staff were very apologetic but it was out of their control . . . .
In the end I phoned my local taxi company, the other side of the City, and asked them if they would be able to come and take me home . . . they said yes but it would be very expensive. We agreed a price and then I was taken out to the taxi (in a wheelchair) and came home.
Aide de Memoire
If taken by ambulance to hospital, please remember to take a set of outside clothes, shoes, Walker or Wheelchair, enough money for an expensive taxi ride . . . and a Mac!!!
glad you are home, but what absolutely appalling treatment regarding transport home - that's terrible! Take care. Helen #4
ReplyDeleteThis is unbelievable. I wonder what would have happened if you had tried to get home on the bus and you had fallen and ended up back in hospital. There is something drastically wrong with the Health System in this country at the moment. I am wondering how you got to the hospital. Take care and have a safe week. Hugs, Angela xXx
ReplyDeleteGoodness me! I'm glad to know that you are back on your feet now - do take care! xx
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness! I am astounded that they were going to let you go in your night clothes to make your own way home. Sending lots of love x Angela #12
ReplyDeleteI have no idea why I didn't visit you this week but now I have I am appalled at the way you were treated. This is disgusting and you are not the first person I have heard about who was sent out of hospital at an unearthly hour with no consideration for age or how they were dressed. But this was a friend of mine and I am really angry. I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't put something on social media but not mentioning your name. Hope you are feeling better now.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Neet xx1
(Just catching up) I am so upset to read this. Wish I lived closer and I would have come to take you home. They should at least have arranged a taxi to take you home. Would they send their grandmother out into the dark like that?
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