From Trash to Cash: Dribbling a river

jo70mo

thats a bit frustrating Nixi. grr. but the important bit is how Bens doing and that sounds really positive. So glad to hear it.
Jo x

nolongerindenial

Can the NHS Not get anything right:?????????

Before I go into a massive rant - I am glad DS is improving! However things like this really annoy me - for something as important as suspected Meningitus and they mix up the labels on the containers! so lets say they didnt detect this fact, and give DS the all clear when in fact it is the worst case scenario - send you home and DS got worse - but they say all is clear so you just keep him at home thinking everything is good and its just a bad flu!

Nix - I dont mean to worry you - but unless DS has dramatically improved from the weekend - i would recomend you insist they retest as it is unnacceptable.

nixinixi

NLID - I agree with you but fortunately he has improved a great deal, he is a different little boy to the one we had at the weekend, so I am not going to put him through that again.

Thankfully, although they made this silly mistake the rest of the service we received has been impeccable and I have no complaints. Thankfully it seems to have been a false alarm, just frustrating that we will never know what it was, all we know is his white blood cell count was up (understandably) and I think they said something to do with platelets (sp?) too...but not enough to cause concern and understandable because he was obviously a poorly boy.

jo70mo

NLID I agree with you too but also that it is imporatnt to take the current picture into account and his response to treatment when deciding whether to re-test as it was very traumatic.
having said that Nixi if you you have any instinctive feelings that all may not be well then do listen to them and don't rationalise them away. but it sounds like it does feel to have turned a big corner to you and that you feel ok about him now.
Jo x

nolongerindenial

Fair Enough - I guess im just going by the level of incompetance of our local hospital (been threatened to sack all management if they didnt buck up within a month)

jo70mo

NLID having worked in the NHS I know how great it is and can be. but I also know that evn in the best bits of it things can go wrong and mistakes made. I am the first to question and check everything and not take things at face value. but I also believe in a sensible approach to invasive traumatic procedures particularly in children. I also think Nixi would be in there like a shot if she had any sense at all that things were not Ok.
Jo x

elly68

well halifax has not put erc into bank account instead sent us a welcome pack coffee ,tea,choclates,picture hooks wine hand soap ect i would have rather they had taken the £50 off the mortgage think i'm turning into an mse miser previously i would have been v pleased with this lol
also got 2 unexpected new home cards in the post away back to the boxes and must stop thinking can i ebay this??????????
on another note went through wedding album and said personal box found a letter from my nephew that died 2 years ago made me cry hubby laughed and said he thought i was crying over one of his army loveletters (he knew i would find letter think he left it on top of the bundle of letters) sort of made me sad happy if you know what i mean

nolongerindenial

jo70mo wrote: »

NLID having worked in the NHS I know how great it is and can be. but I also know that evn in the best bits of it things can go wrong and mistakes made. I am the first to question and check everything and not take things at face value. but I also believe in a sensible approach to invasive traumatic procedures particularly in children. I also think Nixi would be in there like a shot if she had any sense at all that things were not Ok.
Jo x

Hi Jo,

I have no doubt at all there are thousands of staff members in the NHS who do there absolute best for the service, giving it everything they can to do a very good job (And doctors and nurses are only the front line of this).

Unfortunately the NHS is spoilt IMO by all of the receptionists/administrative staff who simply could not care less about the patients, send out letters requesting you attend one hospital for an appointment - when it is at a different hospital (Once I could accept as a mistake - but this happened to me twice at two consecutive(sp) appointments).

The other major issue I have noticed is the lack of nurses on the ward to look after the patients!

However I am not all down on the NHS - when my wife as pregnant and had suspected pre-eclampsia (sp), we spent a lot of time in a ward specifically for problems during pregnancy and this was very well staffed and worked perfectly.

But saying that, when we turned up for the first appointment and went to reception (less than 50 metres from this long established ward!) we got sent in completely the wrong direction for our appointment!

nolongerindenial

jo70mo wrote: »

NLID I agree with you too but also that it is imporatnt to take the current picture into account and his response to treatment when deciding whether to re-test as it was very traumatic.
having said that Nixi if you you have any instinctive feelings that all may not be well then do listen to them and don't rationalise them away. but it sounds like it does feel to have turned a big corner to you and that you feel ok about him now.
Jo x

I was under the impression from reading nixi's first post on all of this that it was just a simple blood test where tehy try to grow cultures... I may have been completely wrong (not unheard off ) on that one though.......

I am of the attitude a few quickly forgotten tears for a blood test is a lot better than the constant worry till he is better.

Anyways - enough doom and gloom from me - and this is me feeling positive about my future :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

nixinixi

NLID - it was blood test - but a blood test for a 5 year is not a simple procedure....for my DS it is very traumatic and upsetting and he screams blue murder, and the one before was at the same time as putting a cannula in his hand.

When the nurse came to administer his antibiotics he screamed blue murder and hid because he was so scared, and that was at home with his mom and dad, and favourite tv programme on, we had to hold him tight and he still screamed through it - if I took him back to the hospital at the moment he would be petrified.

Changing subject anyone watching nick and dave??