**Friday 26/03/10 Daily Chat-Lurkers Unlurk! We know you are out there!**

LouiseJ

ZTD wrote: »

Once you get past a certain age, the medical profession treats you as meat, waiting to die. There are individuals inside the medical profession who don't, but they are literal individuals.

But hes my Granda:(:(

Why would anyone go into a caring profession if they dont care:mad: makes my blood boil it does. OHs Dad was completely neglected after he had a stroke at age 67, we had to fight for every bloody thing even the diagnoses a they kept insisting it was only a TIA (mini stroke) so he did not receive any speech therapy or other rehabilitation that he obviously needed as they thought he would wake up one day and would be OK.

Never happened:(

scaredy_cat

no joy there either BB. I have previously purchased train tickets from Crosscountry Trains ok, should i use them to get my tickets to Poole?

tenmah

ZTD wrote: »

Once you get past a certain age, the medical profession treats you as meat, waiting to die. There are individuals inside the medical profession who don't, but they are literal individuals.

This is so true - the way they treated my Mum was appalling (she was 81 when she died) but I won't go into all the details on here, because they are all too common and I am sure you would have heard about this kind of thing before (such as putting drinks and food at the end of the bed where she couldn't possibly reach them and leaving her in a soiled bed etc)

The nurses made my blood boil and inside I scream when people say 'oh they have so much to do and are so underpaid'. I know I can't generalise but the ones 'taking care' of my Mum spent most of their time sitting round the nurses station and glaring at you if you asked for some help.

I will stop now or this will turn into my longest post/rant ever!

ZTD

tenmah wrote: »

This is so true - the way they treated my Mum was appalling (she was 81 when she died) but I won't go into all the details on here, because they are all too common and I am sure you would have heard about this kind of thing before (such as putting drinks and food at the end of the bed where she couldn't possibly reach them and leaving her in a soiled bed etc)

The nurses made my blood boil and inside I scream when people say 'oh they have so much to do and are so underpaid'. I know I can't generalise but the ones 'taking care' of my Mum spent most of their time sitting round the nurses station and glaring at you if you asked for some help.

I will stop now or this will turn into my longest post/rant ever!

One of my more distant relatives was in hospital recently, with one of his daughters in attendence. The standard of care there was very poor as well. She marched up to the desk and announced brightly "I'd like a complaints form please."

Suddenly the earth changed under her feet.

She is not a woman to be trifled with...

Burlesque_Babe

scaredy_cat wrote: »

no joy there either BB. I have previously purchased train tickets from Crosscountry Trains ok, should i use them to get my tickets to Poole?

they take solo there though, I did a dummy journey to check it out and solo was one of the choices :huh:

LouiseJ

Embarrasing bodies:eek: ...........nuff said

scaredy_cat

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

they take solo there though, I did a dummy journey to check it out and solo was one of the choices :huh:

is this page the same as the one you had?

scaredy_cat

BB, just realised - it's East Coast Trains, not East Anglia... durr

Buffythedebtslayer

Evening All

Luc, clearly she is a crazy loon bin on some kind of power trip!

Glad the interview went well xxx

thank you for the text messages yesterday xxxx

And Lou, hugs re Grandad.

I hate the way old people are treated, my grandad had a horrible time, lazy thieving scum "looking after him" but that was in a care home.

Its been a funny old day really

glad its friday

Kayleigh - I also had pizza! xxxx

clairewop

I'm still not feeling 100% think i'm going to go to bed and read

Night