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Grey Girl
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 Posted - 30 Mar 2007 : 7:05:59 PM
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I was chatting to a nurse on our bus just before Christmas and she said that over half the people who turn up in A&E are there because of alcohol and/or drugs... so of course are often aggressive or difficult to boot. 
Poor staff.
Grey Girl |
 Said the little eohippus, "I´m going to be a HORSE"  |
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alkarif
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Mar 2007 : 12:46:17 PM
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Oh Vera...just sitting here reading these posts, you have my sympathy, and support! Been there done that type of support but you sound to have a 'low on the list type of hospital'. Yeah we all know how long we have to wait in A&E but if its bad, its bad! and we wait! My knee was opp'ed on very quickly, I was lucky! Really keeping my fingers crossed for you, and the vet idea sounds very practical! AND you trust them with Dennis! Eat your choccy with my best wishes.
Brenda M - Al Karif Arabians |
Brenda M - Al Karif Arabians
“God made the horse from the breath
of the wind, the beauty of the earth,
and the soul of the angel.....
May they forever run with our hearts....."
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Mike
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Eire
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Posted - 31 Mar 2007 : 1:41:45 PM
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This might amuse, or not
25 years ago I arrived at A&E with a busted leg (2 places), ankle & hip after a motorbike accident. Wearing skin-tight jeans (along with the required clean underware I was wheeled into a cubicle and asked to wait a few mins. Very shortly afterwards all hell broke loose in the cubicle next door as an attempted suicide produced a knife & stabbed one of the nurses before being laid out cold by a burly porter who had heard the racket & arrived in the nick of time Anyway once things had settled down & the injured nurse had been treated, two nurses arrived & pointed out that the jeans had to come off. Sure, says I just cut them off (knowing full well that it had taken ten minutes of lying on my back to get them on in the first place "Oh no, we can't do that, they're new and the blood will wash out easily enough!!" 20 agonising minutes later the jeans were off! And I was on my way to x-ray. The x-rays and my injuries were examined by a doctor who pronounced "We'll just organise some painkillers for you and you will be on your way home in a hour or so Great!!! This was still in radiology by the way The radiologist, who had overheard this conversation, took the doctor to onside & in hushed tones took the x-rays off him & pointed out a few things that she had noticed on them Needless to say I stayed for rather longer than the promised hour! My first action on arriving home in plaster by the way was to fall down the stairs from top to bottom That hurt too!!!
Ten years later with the jeans still fresh in my memory, I was back in A&E this time with all 4 fingers of my right hand torn open to the bone by the clip on an inhand lead-chain. At that time I wore 5 rings on that hand, all of course below the injuries. So when the nurses mentioned the rings, I begged, please, PLEASE just cut the bl**dy things off! "Oh no we couldn't possibly do that, they would be ruined, and we will wash them for you once we have them off, doesn't that sound better??" Getting the rings off took over an hour, and was more than a tad painful! It was then time to clean up the mess and stitch the fingers back together again (25 in total) - These days I wear 1 ring on my left hand & that's it, one learns from ones mistakes
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beau
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Mar 2007 : 2:28:04 PM
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Cor Blimey Mike you get in the wars>>
Ouch to your knee Vera,.,
I work for NHS quite frankly i find it embarrassing. It not nice not wanting to admit where you work,., particularly at the prsent time (my hosp getting alot of negative press cover at mo)
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Tahir
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Mar 2007 : 4:53:22 PM
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Don't be embarrassed beau, I think the staff at the hospitals do a stirling job, it's the "system" and the "timewasters" that are the problem.
OUCH Mike, (Note to self, remove all jewelry and lose all my tight jeans - am too old to wear them anyway!!!).
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Grey Girl
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England
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Posted - 31 Mar 2007 : 6:11:42 PM
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Note to all: if you have rings on an injured hand and can't get them off and want to save the rings get a jeweller to come and cut them off: they'll do it in a way that means the rings can be mended. If the hospital cuts them off they usually can't be repaired. I was advised this by a trainee jeweller... When Amelia broke my hand the first thing I did was get my rings off before the hand got too fat (the second thing I did was carry on riding so she wouldn't think she could get away with it...)
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Said the little eohippus, "I´m going to be a HORSE" |
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Sarah L
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England
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Posted - 31 Mar 2007 : 9:20:36 PM
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I have to say last time I went to A&E I was made to feel guilty about being there and that I had wasted their time!!!
I was at a SJ competition and I fell off 3 times in about half an hour.(OK, stop laughing! wait till I've explained!!) landing on my head 2 of the 3 times! The first one was at Fence 3, I lost my stirrup in between 2 and 3 but carried on but horse overjumped fence 3 as there was a spooky water tray underneath (well they obviously have teeth!) and just jumped me off, I got straight back on as I was determined to finish the course and continued. I had nearly finshed when he spooked (to this day I don;t know what it was at!!) and as I had already bashed my head was feeling slightly giddy and slid off the side....no harm done this time.
Anyway, stubborn old me refused to be beaten so entered for another Clear Round, approached Fence 3 and again, overjumped it and landed on my head, a carbon copy of the first fall!!! I got up determined to catchthat BLOODY PONY and finish the course but I was restrained by my friend an d the show organiser who I happen to know and was told in no uncertain terms that I should go and get checked out.
By this time I did have a bit of a headache and was starting to feel sick......off I went, looking a bit green but the nurse at
the hospital looked in my eyes, took my BP and asked if I had blurred vision and sent me home........had she never heard of blood clots on the brain etc etc. She said 'As you can see we are a bit busy so I'll give you some pain killers and go and have a lie down!.....Charming! |
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Vera
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Mar 2007 : 9:31:40 PM
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Mike - you don't really expect us to believe that you resisted two nurses wriggling you out of your skin tight jeans do you    .
Grey Girl, there were a couple of lads there with a police escort.
Carla, there were what appeared to be quite a few timewasters there.
The other thing I found shocking, and again this is not a slur the nursing staff and doctors is the state of the waiting area. It was shabby and filty dirty so no wonder they are 3rd worst in the UK for MRSA.
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gabriele ault
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Posted - 01 Apr 2007 : 11:19:25 PM
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slightly different approach to the subject - sorry - if to boring just stop reading.
Unfortunately we have had lots of experiences with the A+E and some were quite outrageous. HHowever, the one that immediately comes to my mind was the following. We had a new 11 year old foster child coming to live with us on a Thursday, she was diagnosed with ADHD and was on medication for it. The incident I'm writing about happened on the following Monday morning. After a very disturbed night the child (can not give any names) knocked on our bedroom door at 5 o'clock in theh morning, was crying and shouting for help. I crwled out of bed, only had one eye open and the room was quite dark (was November) - and all I saw was a totally naked child, wildly waving her arms and it looks as if she had a terrible rash - it turned out that she has scribbled wild messages with a biro (spelling?) ALL (and I mean all over hherbody, there was not a tiny space that was not scribbled on. And she was still making writing motions with her hand and said she cannot stop. First of all I asked her whether she had taken her medicine (on request of social worker she looked after it which I thought was pretty stupid, but I'm only the foster carer) and she replied, Yes, all of them. At first I thought that meant all 3 sort of pills, but she soon made clear that she has taken all (over 100) tablets. Panick struck. We got her in the car and drove her to the nearest hospital - it took nearly 30 minutes till they saw her, after 20 minutes drive on top of it. I was a nervous wreck, the child was terrified etc. The first thing thehy did was put her on a monitor and did some tests. It became soon apparent that there was nothing wrong with her, she obviously flushed all the tablets down the toilet and was attention seeking. However, nobody knew that at the time of our arrival ans she definately was not treated as an emergency. Yhat was the one thing that was wrong. The strange thing is, that after if became clear, that there was physically nothing wrong with her, she was still kept on the ward for 2.5 days and valuable nursing time, bed space, money etc was wasted. Do not misunderstand me that child needed help - desperately but psychological help. There she was in the ward demanding that the doctor should come and stick needles in her, big ones, long ones, she wanted them to cut her open with a knive, she wanted all machineries attached to her - it was horrendous. The poor child was in the wrong place looked after by the wrong people. At first there was no rush and then when there was no need for it, the bend backwards. However, she was not send to a psychatric ward or at least to see psychological help. There is quite a bit more to the story but I cannot write it down all. I just think that the system is totally mad!
Hope I didn't bore you too much.
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beau
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Posted - 02 Apr 2007 : 10:00:25 AM
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| Blimey that is just a waste of facilities, time, money etc, should have been clear to all that psychiatric help was more approprite, |
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Grey Girl
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Posted - 02 Apr 2007 : 7:08:54 PM
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Blimey, Gabriele, what a ghastly experience.
I have to admit that every time I've trundled into A&E they've been very good: sometimes had a long wait, but then, I've only once been an emergency and then they did everything as fast as possible and I was wired up and monitored within moments of the ambulance men whizzing me in.
Sometimes though when I've been sitting there I've wondered what the other folk were there for... often no obvious signs of injury, blood, clutching icepacks to damaged bits, tear stains etc. Still, at weekends, often people sitting sadly in riding kit!
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crinks
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Posted - 02 Apr 2007 : 9:54:46 PM
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Well a certain MAdmare on here.................... yes dear one its your parental unit.................... they let me in here as well!
She was showjumping one evening, came off and got her hand stuck between horse and jump wing, and it was bent double. She did insist on finishing the course one handed (not to be tried on a fired up Arab please) and then took her off to the local hospital A&E (where incidenttaly she used to be on first name terms with ALL the staff!)
She was still dressed in jods, boots, jacket etc with hat dangling from good hand and the recetionist asked 'Have you been injured riding a horse' to which my darling daughter replied 'No I've been parachuting off the roof of the house to see how much it took to break a wrist!'.................. A&E staff who were listening were falling about laughing their socks off, including my mother who was duty sister that night............ and the receptionist (bless her) took it quite seriously and started to write it all down, when daughter looked at her and said 'of course I was riding a horse'................ she had to rip the admitting form up and start again! |
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Tahir
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Apr 2007 : 02:27:52 AM
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Ha haaa, lovvit crinks. Just love your sense of humour (and madmare's) in the face of adversity!!! Bet the receptionist had the face of a rottweiler chewing wasps!!! Brill!!
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