Hoping everything goes well, hollydolly!

hollydolly said:
No need for gentle hugs..well not more gentle than normal IYSWIM...I've not had my surgery.... They didn't have any beds... but they waited until late last night to tell me... I was furious really upset, but I couldn't take it out on the nursing staff..

This is where sat from 7am...until 7pm .... with no food no water... waiting for my surgery...
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Oh no!!!! So now what?
 

hollydolly said:
No need for gentle hugs..well not more gentle than normal IYSWIM...I've not had my surgery.... They didn't have any beds... but they waited until late last night to tell me... I was furious really upset, but I couldn't take it out on the nursing staff..

This is where sat from 7am...until 7pm .... with no food no water... waiting for my surgery...


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Bummer! What now?
 
The admissions unit was packed..I got there just before 7am in Torrential rain and high winds .. the unit was closed.I sat down alongside another man, both of us had 7.30am appts... we thought we were the only ones. The waiting area outside was next to the lifts.. by the time the unit opened it was 7.30am.. and people had emerged from the lifts like a football crowd, so there was abut 60 peple waiting to go in and all had appts for 7.30am

No-one had had anything to drink or eat for the previous 12 hours.. over the next 2 hours we were all processed in the super overheated unit, names checked, BP taken..etc... then the surgeons' apprentice came and checked where the surgery was to be done and marked it wth an arrow...

people were getting taken in for surgery on external limbs..face.. legs..knees..etc...everyone was very thirsty..

My surgery was scheduled for the morning... at around 11am, the surgeon came himself and had a look at me, and said, this surgery has to be done today but it won't be until the afternon now...apologies..
So..back I sat down.. not allowed to see what was going on left or right of me... just straight ahead... no-one telling us what's going on...

Next someone comes and says get into a gown and compression socks... and now you have to put all your clothes into a small carrier bag that they provided.. I said my clothes won't fit in.. and without any airs or graces they just grabbed my clothes and rammed them literally into a carrier bag including my big coat... .

the aneasthetist then came to see me and she told me all what was about to happen etc... ... then I sat there,, and watched in front of me as male after male was taken to theatre, and brought back with bandaged limbs....


Still verrrrry thirsty.. now 4pm everyone has gone exept me..I get told the patient before me is in theatre, and I'll be next... sat there again until 7pm ..when a nurse came and said...sorry your surgery can't go ahead... we have no beds ! I really thought she was joking, because she said it in a humurous way... but she wasn't joking... she said the surgeon was unhappy about it , but they just had no beds..

So I'd gone 18 hours without a drink, or food.. had all the other stuff happen, and then when I got dressed to go home I looked like a scarecrow because everything was creased from being rammed in the carrier bag

Finally I got a tiny cup of water ...and then I asked them how was I to get home..my dd had been scheduled to collect me tomorrow ( today )... so they called the hospital manager explained what happened and the hospital paid for a cab

I was exhausted when i got home and went straight to bed...
 

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This was my view, there was a wall to my left, and more of the same chairs that I was sitting in to my right, but the curtain was drawn so my only view was straight ahead.. where the peope were wheeled past from the left to the right where the theatres are, and brought back.. all these people according to the nurse were day patients.. going home the same day

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Further to all that.. what really rankled with me was having to pay to have my gel nails removed.. and then paying for a cab to the hospital all of this cost close to £100.... then my daughter had to re-arrange her weekend so she could come and get me.. and had to cancel a dental appointment, and a knee consultants appointment that were both due to take place during this next 2 weeks, because I was told I wouldn't be able to drive...so those important appts were cancelled, and I didn't get my surgery... and now I have to wait longer for my dentist and knee consultant
 
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Pinky said:
How infuriating, to have gone an entire day, and the night before, without sustenance!
So - what now? Have they rescheduled your surgery?
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So..just after I got dressed, the nurse at the desk said...ok here's an appt for the 19th of february..just like she was booking me a cab.. no apologies we couldn't help this etc.. just here's another appt...

I said I can't come on that date I've had to move my dental surgery appt to that date... and I can't cancel again... so she said I'll get a letter in the post...
 
Medusa said:
That's really awful; I'm sorry you're having to go through this.
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I wish I had the money to have private surgery but sadly I don't...I was talking to an 86 year old woman in the waiting room , who was there for knee surgery, she said she paid out of pocket for her right knee to be done, but it cost £15,000 and she just couldn't afford to have the left knee done, so she had to wait 18 months to now have it done on the NHS..

the most frustrating thing is, that it's almost always the same surgeon who is performing the NHS and the private surgery...

When I spoke to the cab driver taking me home, he told me I was the 4th person that day that the hospital had paid to have him collect because of No beds...
 
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hollydolly said:
I wish I had the money to have private surgery but sadly I don't...I was talking to an 86 year ld woman in te wiaitng room , who was there for nee surgery, she said she paid out of pocket for her right knee to be done, but it coost £15,000 and se just couldn't afford to have the left knee done, so she had to wait 18 months to now ave it done on the NH..

the most frustrating thing is, that t's almst always the same surgeon who is performing the NHS and the private surgery...

When I spoke to the cab driver taking me home, he tolld me I was the 4th person that day that the hospital had paid to have him collect because of No beds...
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That has to be so frustrating.
 
hollydolly said:
The admissions unit was packed..I got there just before 7am in Torrential rain and high winds .. the unit was closed.I sat down alogside another man, both of us had 7.30am appts... we thought we were the only ones. The waitng area utside was next to the lifts.. by the time the unit opened it was 7.30am.. and people had emrged from the lifts like a football crowd, so there was abut 60 peple waiting to go in and all had appts for 7.30am

No-one had had anything to drink or eat for the previous 12 hours.. over the next 2 hours we were all processed in the sauper overheated unit, names checked, BP taen..etc... then the surgeons' apprentice came and checked where the surgery was to be done and marked it was an arrow...

people were getting taen in for surgery on external limbs..face.. legs..knees..etc...everyone was very thirsty..

My surgery was secheduled for the morning... at around 11am, the surgeon came himself and had a look at me, and said, this surgery has to be done today but it won't be until the afernon now...apologies..
So..bac I sat down.. not allowed to see what was going on left or right of me... just straight ahead... no-one telling us what's going on...

Next someone comes and says get into a gown and compression socks... and now you have to put all your clothes into a small carrier bag that they provided.. I said my clothes won't fit in.. and without any airs or graces they just grabbed my clothes and rammed them literally into a carrier bag including my big coat... .

the aneasthetist then came to see me and she told me all what was about to happen etc... ... then I sat there,, and watched in front of me as male after male was taken to theatre, and brought back with bandaged limbs....


Still verrrrry thirsty.. now 4pm everyone has gone exept me..I get told the patient before me is in theatre, and I'll be next... sat there again until 7pm ..when a nurse came and said...sorry your surgery can't go ahead... we have no beds ! I really thought she was joking, because she said it in a humurous way... but she wasn't joking... she said the surgeon was unhappy about it , but they just had no beds..

So I'd gone 18 hours without a drink, or food.. had all the other stuff happen, and then when I got dressed to go home I looked like a scarecrow because everything was creased from being rammed in the carrier bag

Finally I got a tiny cup of water ...and then I asked them how was I to get home..my dd had been scheduled to collect me tomorrow ( today )... so they called the hospital manager explained what happened and the hospital paid for a cab

I was exhausted when i got home and went straight to bed...
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Oh my gosh, @hollydolly, I just want to pitch a hizzy fit for you!!! That is SO unacceptable!! 😖😤🤬
 
chic said:
How are your eyes Gary? I've missed your posts so much. It's good to see you back however briefly.
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Eyes are pretty much gone
But the ol' noggin is still clicking on all cylinders
and I've still got one good ear

I do miss posting, but
it is what it is

Funny
get a certain age and names of body parts change

When young you have a right and left knee

When old you have a good and bad knee

Thanks for checking on me, fine lady
 
chic said:
I'm so sorry you wasted an entire day. And with no food or drink! The health care system is such a disaster. It's good to have you back but too bad about the surgery.
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it's not just that Chic, I lost out on other appointments which had to be changed, I spent money I needn't have spent...and further in the hospital no-one seemed to know what another person was doing... for example..one nurse said.. hasn't anyone brought you socks, said no..ok I'll go get them she said.. she didn't..a little later someone else asked the same question, I said no.. she said I'll get them.. she didn't.... it took a third person to do it amongst a sighing session from her ...

The 86 year old lady asked if she could have a second gown to cover her bare back... they never brought it.. she was made to walk to theatre with her whole back and knickers exposed..

Now if the other 2 had been called away to something more important I would have fully understood... they weren;t they stood chatting about nosensical things at the reception desk where I could see and hear them
The anesthetist said I had to have a pill... so that came like lightening brought by the head nurse.. later as I got dressed to leave, the same nurse asked if I wanted a drink..of course my throat was like razors.. it didn't come.. another nurse /assistant asked , and I said yes please I'm really thirsty, by now I sounded really hoarse.. it didn't come, eventually I actually asked someone, and they brought me one ..but this wasn't a busy A& E... most of these nurses were standiing around chatting at the desk for the biggest part of their shift..
 
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Gary O' said:
Eyes are pretty much gone
But the ol' noggin is still clicking on all cylinders
and I've still got one good ear

I do miss posting, but
it is what it is

Funny
get a certain age and names of body parts change

When young you have a right and left knee

When old you have a good and bad knee

Thanks for checking on me, fine lady
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I miss you too Gary...I'm so sorry your eyes have come to this, is there nothing that can do....?
 
hollydolly said:
it's not just that Chic, I lost out on other appointments which had to be changed, I spent money I needn't have spent...and further in the hospital no-one seemed to know what another person was doing... for example..one nurse said.. hasn't anyone brought you socks, said no..ok I'll go get them she said.. she didn't..a little later someone else asked the same question, I said no.. she said I'll get them.. she didn't.... it took a third person to do it amongst a sighing session from her ...

The 86 year old lady asked if she could have a second gown to cover her bare back... they never brought it.. she was made to walk to theatre with her who back and knickers exposed..

Now if the other 2 had been called away to something more important I would have fully understood... they weren;t they stood chatting about nosensical things at the reception desk where I could seen and hear them
The anesthetist said I had to have a pill... so that came like lightening brought by the head nurse.. later as I got dressed to leave, the same nurse asked if I wanted a drink..of course my throat was like razors.. it didn't come.. another nurse /assistant asked , and I said yes please I'm really thirsty, by now I sounded really hoarse.. it didn't come, eventually I actually asked someone, and they brought me one ..but this wasn't a busy A& E... most of these nurses were standiing around chatting at the desk for the biggest part of their shift..
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That is so enraging, when you can see/hear the people who are supposed to be helping you do essentially nothing instead of their jobs.
 
Medusa said:
That is so enraging, when you can see/hear the people who are supposed to be helping you do essentially nothing instead of their jobs.
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that's precisely how it seemed to be...and when they were doing it they were doing it in a bad grace, very huffy, and slow to react to anything..literally slow... like nothing was urgent .. it was clear they felt they were being intruded upon. The only time they jumped to attention and started speaking very nicely, was when the surgeon or anesthetist was around.. then it was all everything is no problem, but as soon as they left everything went back to as it had been 15 minutes before..
 
Gary O' said:
They are too far gone

There are shots to slow down the degenerative progress if caught early enough

As it stands, I won't totally lose all my vision
but reading is the big challenge
and projects that involve detail

Quite frustrating
Just very glad I did what I did when I did it
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I'm not going to ask any questions Gary because altho' I've put this in the largest font, it's still hard for you to see what you've typed I'm sure.. but I really wish you could have something to help you gain your sight back...
 

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