Hi, good to read about you all and your GC.
Doodle same here about concentration, in my case I think its because I don't have enough to focus on, I'm better when I have to use my brain.
I finally escaped last night after having a real hissy fit at them. I had been endlessly patient and understanding, been in 13 different beds plus scans etc. After 5 days they still hadn't managed to get my standard, necessary, medication from the pharmacy and it took 4 days to get the MRI scan. Different docs said different things and 3 times I was told I could go home then told I couldn't. Had the MRI on Monday morning and was told to wait for results in less than an hour, didn't come. In the afternoon a doc kept coming to ask me questions and then going to talk to the stroke nurse who I had been told 3 times would come and see me but never did. Asked Sister if they would go off shift and not tell me and was assured they wouldn't. They did. I was left being told I hadn't had a stroke but they had found a couple of things they were talking about. So I am left wondering if I have a brain tumour or whatever!
It all boiled over and I ended up telling them that I mattered too. I forced Sister to come and listen to me and poured out all the above plus much more. She got a doc to talk to me and he said I hadn't had a stroke, no clots and no bleeds, just a couple of arteries/blood vessels had softened which is perfectly normal for my age. He said I had to wait until the morning for a discharge letter. Soon after Sister remarkably found the missing meds and gave me my discharge letter. Son took me to buy chocolate on the way home!
Having said all that, all the individual staff were helpful and kind, the paramedics were wonderful too, It is simply that there is no coordination and no one to follow up and see that appropriate things get done. It is hugely inefficient and wasteful of resources.
Now know I have had a full MOT and that I am doing very well. Unfortunately the first thing they look at is my DOB but I can now laugh at the OT who wanted to sort out the aids for me to cope at home and the physio who thought I needed help managing the stairs, even the nurse who asked if I lived in a community!! Never mind, they meant well
Kate Garroway-Care at home costs
Good Morning Good Friday 29th March 2024