A snapshot look at NHS services in your area

It so good to hear the positive side, it can be too easy to take the good for granted and only moan when things have gone wrong. Very pleased for you kittyl hope this clears up quickly too.

Thanks Alea, I feel slightly more human today.

I had very few comments on my post about the 111 service. I wonder if people just don't want to hear about the good things.

14.05 asked DH if he was ready for lunch. No reply, assumed he had forgotten his hearing aid (!)
14.06 he remained silent, looked distressed and seemed to have difficulty speaking.
14.07, started "stroke" tests, face OK but having difficulty raising his right arm
14.07 rang 999
14.18 blues and twos arrive at the door. Probably a TIA as symptoms beginning to recede but DH still unable to form words and too weak to even try. Paramedics ring ahead to Severe Stroke unit at Luton & Dunstable just IN case but get the go ahead for A& E at MK , much nearer.
By 15.00 in a bed in A& E, where they did ECG, brain CT scan, bloods taken, urine sample, cannula fitted etc.
Saw various doctors but as speech and arm strength returning to normal and CT scan clear, allowed home shortly after 18.00

That's my "snapshot" today of the NHS in our area
Verdict?
Brilliant.

I was in a shop in Durham today when a man started to feel strange and was mumbling.
Staff rang 111, a paramedic on a bike arrived. He tested the man's blood sugar, then rang for an ambulance. The paramedics in the ambulance started talking to the man, got some response, but not to satisfy them, and they started to take him to the ambulance. The first paramedic told him that would be 170 euros, then told him it was a joke. Could have given him a heart attack!
Five minutes later the ambulance was off to the hospital.
Excellent NHS there.

Just "bumping" this up in case it disappears, as a tribute to a brilliant response to a tricky situation today!

Yes it is brilliant Alea. The NHS still seems very good at emergency situations on the whole.

You didn't originally post whether that had happened today, so I personally assumed that it didnt.

Very pleased that it all went so well in the circumstances, for you both.

Good morning Alea - hope you and your dh are ok this morning. thanks for taking the time to post on this thread. NHS in a crisis is unbeatable.

I've just arranged to have a skin tag that's continuing to grow over one of my eye lids removed. I'm having to go privately because my GP tells me the NHS won't remove it, even if it begins to block my sight. On a brighter note I'm having two toe nails removed on the NHS (can't wait…

Yesterday ( i.e.Monday so "today" when I wrote)

Crumbs Alea - hope you are ok! And DH is ok of course!

He is very tired despite 12 hours sleep and feeling v rough and "down". Fortunately I have woken feeling ready for the day!

What a shock for you Alea I hope you are both ok today. I have had 2 neighbours and one friend who have had TIA's two outside the home , action and follow up appts were second to none and in the case of my friend , because all the tests were so rigorous, an unknown heart condition was diagnosed and appointment made with cardiology.

Phone call at 8.31 giving us an appointment at the TIA clinic at 2 today. Can't fault them!

Brilliant Alea. Please let us know what happens. (((hugs)))

When a friend had a heart attack on a narrow boat on a canal in the middle of nowhere, the paramedics found them by satellite and drove down the towpath. Priceless service!

Now had to do 111 as the symptoms DH experienced yesterday seemed to be returning this morning. Receding again but he has definite weakness in the right hand, arm and leg. Awaiting admission to the Stroke Unit.

Oh dear, Alea, sounds as though you have acted very quickly if it is a stroke, so that is good news. Take care.

Alea only just heard about your dh, I do hope he's ok. Thank goodness the NHS are responding so well for you both.

Alea

Thinking of you and your husband.

The likelihood is a minor left side stroke affecting right side (only arm and hand, face just a tiny bit) and speech - slower and has some difficulty finding his words, but not I think serious. He has had his MRI scan and apart from being shattered looked a bit better tonight. Lovely nurses and doctors on the Stroke Unit too

Glad to hear it, Alea

On bank holiday Sunday the NHS saved my husbands life when his diagnosed Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm decided it wouldn't wait for the elective surgery and ruptured at 9pm, it was literally touch and go whether they would get him to hospital in time and two surgeons rushed in from home to operate on him. Every single part of the NHS involved were completely focused on saving his life , from the Paramedics, A & E doctors and nurses, radiologists, lab techs, anesthetists, surgeons, porters and so on and on it goes they were all marvelous and we are eternally grateful they all acted with such skill and speed to save him.
Our NHS is amazing and long may it be allowed to carry on helping and saving people.

OH is now home with a very large wound and 42 staples in his abdomen, he is recovering well, its going to take time but he's here and that's the most important thing..

Thank goodness, Tanith. How worrying at the time though. I wish him a speedy recovery.

Alea and Tanith.

Wishing both of your hubbies make a full recovery albeit a bit of a journey.

Good to continue hearing positive stories of the NHS too .

tanith thank goodness he got such care!

Tanith I note it was on the BHweekend. Where are all the moaners and whingers who complain dictors don't work weekends now?
{{hugs}} and a restorative to you !!