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- South Molton
His jaws alright
, just been over to see the old goat, think he was glad of some company.
Who's finding the NHS very hard work??????
- Thread starter kill
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, just been over to see the old goat, think he was glad of some company.
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- South Molton
Devon James
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- Devon
- Location
- South Molton
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- South West
Everything moved very fast on Tuesday as had an urgent MRI at 9am and at 11 am my consultant's secretary phoned to get back in contact as I was at my doctor's seeking stronger drugs . When we phoned back, I was asked to go back to my local hospital at 3.30pm and examined and was to be handed across to the spinal team at my larger regional hospital and they would be in contact shortly but before we even got home they had been on the phone for questions and then again when I got home and asked me to get an over night back and come down to them.
Well as soon as I arrived and booked into A&E I was meet by a doctor and spinal surgeon and after being examined I was told that I would be staying and have spinal surgery the following morning. The reason is I had 2x severally herinated disc in my lower back which have been all but filling my spinal canal and crushing my spinal cord so became an emergency. Unfortunately while clearing the disc my spinal fluid sack was torn and now I am on 72hrs lay flat bed rest
Well as soon as I arrived and booked into A&E I was meet by a doctor and spinal surgeon and after being examined I was told that I would be staying and have spinal surgery the following morning. The reason is I had 2x severally herinated disc in my lower back which have been all but filling my spinal canal and crushing my spinal cord so became an emergency. Unfortunately while clearing the disc my spinal fluid sack was torn and now I am on 72hrs lay flat bed rest
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- South West
NHS has come through very good now but the wait has been very long and the pain at times has given me some very dark thoughts and this could nearly ended so differently!!!!
A local guy took his own life a few years ago over prolonged/ acute back pain after getting very low with doctor's not listening and looking back I fully know where he was at and my guess he had similar pain to me!
A local guy took his own life a few years ago over prolonged/ acute back pain after getting very low with doctor's not listening and looking back I fully know where he was at and my guess he had similar pain to me!
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- Location
- Cornwall.
Glad to hear it's almost sorted out, looking back three months hence 72hrs flat on your back will seem a distant memory.
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- South West
My pain started in September as fell backwards off the 3rd step of a tractor on to concrete
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- Cornwall.
Ouch! Winced just reading that.
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- East Sussex
Well I'm certainly glad you got sorted @kill hoping it's a successful and lasting solution for you.
May I ask that you remember the route you had to take to get to this stage and make a good effort to explain any negative aspects to your NHS trust (and positive ones) in the hope of improving the service. They need more feedback from people who can give a helpful and accurate account of which I'm sure you are capable.
hoping it's a successful and lasting solution for you.May I ask that you remember the route you had to take to get to this stage and make a good effort to explain any negative aspects to your NHS trust (and positive ones) in the hope of improving the service. They need more feedback from people who can give a helpful and accurate account of which I'm sure you are capable.
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- sw scotland
Glad to hear you got the op. When you said legs were like jelly then that is not a straightforward sciatica but suggested spinal cord damage. Once seen on MRI they seemed to get going. Wish you a good recovery
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- South West
Photo's of my MRI scans, middle left was this Tuesday and middle right was in march ( important to note that hardly any white of the spinal cord can be seen in Tuesdays scan? So almost total restriction!!!!)
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- South West
From what I have seen in the last few days with the NHS ,there are so much going for it with great staff from cleaners to surgeon's but the hardest and most frustrating part they are dealing with is Dementia as when I was waiting to go to ward from A&E a gentleman from a care home had said he was me to a Spanish nurse who took him to my ward and bed!!!! Only to have to clean everything again when it was found not to be me (47yrs) and A&E said it's a very regular occurrence as care home's will not leave their paid staff for long waits so often just abandon Dementia patients.Well I'm certainly glad you got sorted @kill
May I ask that you remember the route you had to take to get to this stage and make a good effort to explain any negative aspects to your NHS trust (and positive ones) in the hope of improving the service. They need more feedback from people who can give a helpful and accurate account of which I'm sure you are capable.
Dementia again today caused a young 19 yr old male nurse assistant to have a 85yr old gentleman shouting and attacking the young nurse for 1+ hours just to keep him in hospital and not further damaging himself by ripping pipes etc from his body and through doing good had the ticking off of his life . The poor lad was extremely polite and very hard working but for what reward?
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- East Sussex
Wholeheartedly agree that the staff dealing with dementia are amazing and have a very hard job.
itsalwaysme
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- Cheshire
Mum is in hospital at the moment, she has a form of dementia but is bedridden at the moment, but there is another lady on the ward who appears fit and active but has dementia, it is virtually a full time job for one of the nurses (nurse assistant) to keep taking her back to her bed, moving her away from other patients etc, the ward door has to be closed at all times to stop her from wandering off.
Dementia care must be costing the country a fortune, why do we seem to be seeing so much more of it these days. It's very sad and distressing to watch someone deteriorate with dementia, hopefully one day they might find some cure
Princess Pooper
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- East Mids
Sorry to hear about your Mum. I think we 'see' more dementia now because there is greater awareness/earlier diagnosis, less stigma about talking about it and of course life expectancy is increasing.So people who 40 years ago who might have died from a stroke or heart disease at an earlier age are living longer so we see more of the other diseases.
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- sw scotland
Princess,
absolutely right that as heart attacks and strokes don't get us in our sixties cancer and dementia get us in our eighties. Good in a way but they last a few years and are expensive to fund. What is the alternative?
absolutely right that as heart attacks and strokes don't get us in our sixties cancer and dementia get us in our eighties. Good in a way but they last a few years and are expensive to fund. What is the alternative?
mrs mtx
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- Pembrokeshire