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I hope the have seen you and reassured you Lucca

Hope you're on your way home now Lucca.

Have they got an MRI scanner?

Keep us posted Lucca.

This might give you a grim laugh.

DH's brother has ra and recently came out of hospital after falling downstairs. Not the funny bit.

Last night he fell in their tiny downstairs loo. Eventually the firebrigade were called because he was behind the door which, therefore, couldn't be opened. The fire brigade eventually had to take the tiny bathroom window out and climb in that way. I realise that the event wasn't funny but burly firemen having to climb through a teeny window made me smile.

Poor chap kitty. I hope he's OK.

Oh dear Kitty, I hope he's OK.
But it did give me a laugh.

Lucca I hope you're feeling better.
We would actually need a bag packed nowadays in case of visits to A&E. I usually take a cushion.

Hope to hear soon that you’re sorted and back home Lucca.

I think GPs not seeing people face to face is as worrying as the situation in A&E. When our DD was referred, her face and neck had swollen like a balloon. Her one eye closed up. Her GP gave her as prescription without seeing her which was of no help. The next day it was worse.
The doc at A&E was furious with her GP. He couldn't believe he hadn't asked to see her on zoom, or asked her if her throat was closing up. He said she could have gone into anaphylactic shock and potentially died. It proved to be 'an allergy to a substance unknown'.
Just to add, although she didn't see the A&E doc for 8 hours, a nurse assessed her and gave her something which reduced the swelling.

Tell them you’ll send the Grans round Lucca, we’ll sort them out. But seriously I am so very sorry to hear this.
Keeping everything crossed you get some answers and are on your way home soon.
It’s desperate isn’t it? Frontline workers working their arses off but the system is broken ???

Quite worrying now not being able to be seen by GP or A&E. Hope you were sorted Lucca.

Lucca I hope you have been seen now and everything is fine

If you haven`t been seen yet Lucca,roll on the floor in agony and shout for help.
I hope you get well either way.

I too hope that Lucca is alright, but surely it is better to be kept in as long as necessary and the clinicians find out what caused the pain rather than be sent home quickly.

I think the issue is the hours patients are there before being seen.
A man on Any Answers yesterday said he was not seen by a Dr until over 11 hours after first calling an ambulance - he had actually had a heart attack. Once he was in Cardiac Care, things moved reasonably quickly but despite accurately describing his symptoms the necessary blood tests etc were not started for I think over 3 hours.

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If you haven`t been seen yet Lucca,roll on the floor in agony and shout for help.
I hope you get well either way.

You won’t be seen any faster by doing that. My dd works as an A&E medic. Anyone capable of making a lot of noise is deemed to not be in mortal danger and won’t be seen any quicker. Waiting times at the unit she works in have been as long as 17 hours. The only real fix is to employ more staff and no one seems to be doing that.

One thing I learnt from her is that should you need to go to A&E, take food & drink (or cash for food machines), a charged phone and a book.

Lucca I hope you’re feeling more comfortable now. That sounds throughly miserable.

Times have changed admittedly, but Paw was a regular at A&E in the last couple of years of his life . He used to reckon taking a thick book was the guarantee of being seen reasonably quickly.
More seriously, I am eternally grateful he did not have to live through times like these - he just wouldn’t.

Trouble is our DD naively thought that as she had been given an appointment time that she wouldn't be waiting 8 hours past that time and wasn't prepared.

I think it’s a good idea for all of us to have a small bag packed ready for such a trip!

I hope you are okay Lucca xx

I can’t help thinking the idea of appointments at A&E is to give the impression of efficiency, Kate. I had such an appt recently (luckily just an eye problem that turned out to be minor) and it was quick and easy but I got the impression at the hospital that it was just a way of managing access. If you had no appointment, you weren’t allowed in the door. ?

I think nowadays it’s best to be a pessimist with the NHS. Expect the worst so if everything works effectively, it’s a blessing.

Lucca.
We need you back on board soon!

All ok. Approx 7 hours… but an excellent doctor and seems to be a not unpredictable side effect of my op on Thursday. Pain is less now but if it gets worse “just come back”. ???

Thanks for all your messages I feel I’m hogging the poor me section of GN. Maybe I should return to being a loony leftie on the N and P threads !(on second thoughts I haven’t the energy !)

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Have they got an MRI scanner?

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I'm glad your pain is more manageable and you are not hogging anything. I can't think of anything worse than being stuck in A&E on a Saturday night/Sunday morning xx