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[Mister Rog]

These days evryone is quick to moan about the NHS, waiting times, treament etc etc. Almost daily there is some tale of woe about waiting times in A & E.

Yesterday I fell over carrying a ladder in the garden. I'm a clumsy oaf. Bled like a stuck pig. Mrs drove me to A & E. Hand cleaned and stiched up. Back home in just over an hour, including the drive to the hospital. I was pretty impressed. The things I do to get out of washing up ! 

Posting this at 3am as it hurts    But, well it would wouldn't it. I think I was very lucky, no tendons cut or anything.






 

[aaronjb]

You're not going to compete with Al with a mere hand wound, you know.. 

Hmm.. stuck pig you say. Must be time for breakfast!

[Mister Rog]

You're not going to compete with Al with a mere hand wound, you know.. 

Hmm.. stuck pig you say. Must be time for breakfast!

Nah, not looking for sympathy. Not that I get any from SWMBO 

Just putting a good word in for the NHS, or at least my local A & E

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Agreed, when it works, and there's not excess strain on the system, then it's the best in the world.

The issues come with if you had slipped on a sat night, you'd have sat in the queue with drunks and junkines for 6 hours solid... everyone ahead of you are there of their own doing, through being blind drunk or worse... their treatment comes out of your taxes. The proposed plans to make bladdered idiots pay for their treatment I am in favour of.


Of course if you now admit you were drunk at the time you fell over with the ladder I take it all back, and of course, drink all you like! 

[YZ250]

.........
Just putting a good word in for the NHS, or at least my local A & E

Looks nasty, what did you land on, or was it the ladder that cut you?

If you'd have gone to our local A & E it would have healed up before you got to see anyone. 
I think they run on the theory that if you haven't died in the nine and a half hours that you are left waiting in a corridor then you must be strong enough to be worth saving. 

Staff were brilliant when we eventually got seen though. 

[YZ250]

Recent personal experiences of our local A & E.

Our Son: Broke his hand (metacarpal) and his arm when he took a tumble off the MotoX bike. After initial assessment in the evening we were told to return at 8am next morning. We naively thought that was an appointment. 
Day 1: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 9pm and no joy.
Day 2: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 9pm and no joy.
Day 3: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 9pm and no joy.
Day 4: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 8.30pm and eventually operated on. Pins inserted through his hand and arm plastered. Surgeon asked why we had waited so long before taking him in. 

Staff were brilliant when he finally got his operation. 

My Dad: He has a history of heart problems and a pacemaker. Taken in by Ambulance with chest pains. From Ambulance to hospital wheelchair, waits in A & E for six hours before he taken for a blood test. Wheeled back in to A & E to wait for another three and a half hours. We eventually question the nine and a half hours waiting time and point out that as he's 87 years old he is getting seriously uncomfortable. Finally taken to assessment ward and put on a drip.

Staff were brilliant when he finally got seen. 

Our local hospital is Stoke Mandeville.

[Mister Rog]

Recent personal experiences of our local A & E.

Our Son: Broke his hand (metacarpal) and his arm when he took a tumble off the MotoX bike. After initial assessment in the evening we were told to return at 8am next morning. We naively thought that was an appointment. 
Day 1: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 9pm and no joy.
Day 2: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 9pm and no joy.
Day 3: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 9pm and no joy.
Day 4: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 8.30pm and eventually operated on. Pins inserted through his hand and arm plastered. Surgeon asked why we had waited so long before taking him in. 

Staff were brilliant when he finally got his operation. 

My Dad: He has a history of heart problems and a pacemaker. Taken in by Ambulance with chest pains. From Ambulance to hospital wheelchair, waits in A & E for six hours before he taken for a blood test. Wheeled back in to A & E to wait for another three and a half hours. We eventually question the nine and a half hours waiting time and point out that as he's 87 years old he is getting seriously uncomfortable. Finally taken to assessment ward and put on a drip.

Staff were brilliant when he finally got seen. 

Our local hospital is Stoke Mandeville.

Blimey 

Makes me glad I moved to Wales then 

We also get free prescriptions and car parking at local hospital is just £1 for 6 hours 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I feel a little Monty Python coming on.

'Tis but a scratch' 

[Mister Rog]

I feel a little Monty Python coming on.

'Tis but a scratch' 

The thought did occur to me. 

Cheers

The Black Knight

[Mister Rog]

I feel a little Monty Python coming on.

'Tis but a scratch' 

The thought did occur to me. 

Cheers

The Black Knight

I just had to do this . . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdSLP-qz_fw

[YZ250]

I just had to do this . . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdSLP-qz_fw

 

Cheers for that, it saved me the trouble of searching for it. 

[jimbo125]

Thank you for not wasting valuable ambulance time and instead making your own way to hospital. To often we get called to people with "minor " wounds like yours who have three cars in the drive and they want us to run them to the local AEU while their relatives make their way in one of the cars all the while with the radio putting out calls for chest pains, strokes and other serious conditions and nothing to send. So a Big Thank You for using common sense, which seems to be in short supply now.

[Varche]

Recent personal experiences of our local A & E.

Our Son: Broke his hand (metacarpal) and his arm when he took a tumble off the MotoX bike. After initial assessment in the evening we were told to return at 8am next morning. We naively thought that was an appointment. 
Day 1: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 9pm and no joy.
Day 2: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 9pm and no joy.
Day 3: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 9pm and no joy.
Day 4: Sat in waiting area from 8am to 8.30pm and eventually operated on. Pins inserted through his hand and arm plastered. Surgeon asked why we had waited so long before taking him in. 

Staff were brilliant when he finally got his operation. 

My Dad: He has a history of heart problems and a pacemaker. Taken in by Ambulance with chest pains. From Ambulance to hospital wheelchair, waits in A & E for six hours before he taken for a blood test. Wheeled back in to A & E to wait for another three and a half hours. We eventually question the nine and a half hours waiting time and point out that as he's 87 years old he is getting seriously uncomfortable. Finally taken to assessment ward and put on a drip.

Staff were brilliant when he finally got seen. 

Our local hospital is Stoke Mandeville.

My Mum suffered years with a knee problem which badly affected her mobility. Her doctor said "nothing that can be done so no point referring" She had a fall and broke her hip. The surgeon said. Get a referal for that knee I can fix that.

[Mister Rog]

Thank you for not wasting valuable ambulance time and instead making your own way to hospital. To often we get called to people with "minor " wounds like yours who have three cars in the drive and they want us to run them to the local AEU while their relatives make their way in one of the cars all the while with the radio putting out calls for chest pains, strokes and other serious conditions and nothing to send. So a Big Thank You for using common sense, which seems to be in short supply now.

Ambulance ?    Just never even occurred to me. Maybe if one is actually incapacitated.

[jimbo125]

Thank you for not wasting valuable ambulance time and instead making your own way to hospital. To often we get called to people with "minor " wounds like yours who have three cars in the drive and they want us to run them to the local AEU while their relatives make their way in one of the cars all the while with the radio putting out calls for chest pains, strokes and other serious conditions and nothing to send. So a Big Thank You for using common sense, which seems to be in short supply now.

Ambulance ?    Just never even occurred to me. Maybe if one is actually incapacitated.

If only more people thought like you