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The dreaded Hospital Experience

Zazzy

Hi all,

I’m hoping someone can give some tips re being admitted to an and e, (amAuADHD). I always come out worse than I went in! Have had a few Strokes in the last four years, and collapsed in the high street a few days ago. (Everyone walked by of course … very sad!). Managed to call an ambulance but was dreading it … as our local hospital is a nightmare and I knew what was awaiting me! The paramedics said they had to take me in, so I decided to go for it. Let’s just say if anyone has watched ‘Fawlty Towers’ on TV … our hospital is very similar … sigh … Confused 

There was a bully ‘in charge’ of the dept, they weren’t ‘busy’, and there were empty bays. I was left on a hard trolley in the centre of the room by the COMPUTERS AND ADMIN STAFF, the sensory overload was a nightmare, it’s on my records I have Autism and need ‘Reasonable Adjustments’. But no, I was left out in the open, with zero dignity, and a junior doctor came and ‘examined’ me many hours after the episode (so any signs of a TIA would have disappeared by then … my abdomen exposed to the whole ward and staff along with my personal info. Oh, and once again, I wasn’t ‘triaged’ or given a wrist id band for four/five hours when I pointed it out! They wouldn’t do any scans and I was discharged, still unable to walk properly, headache had lessened slightly but I was worried as it was c.1...00am when I got back (£60.00 taxi) that I had to pay for. Zero support at home.

Hospitals seem to have lost their ‘compassion’, and I now face having to make a complaint on monday about the bully and the lack of treatment.

V hard to deal with, when you have Autism. I just managed to hang on to see this young dr (who was shaking! I think I must have been his first patient Scream … as I kept wanting to just run out of t

as I was being ignored and was sensory overwhelmed, I nearly ran (well, hobbled) out of the dept! I wish I had in hindsight. Still ill, gp useless, scared to call paramedics as I’d have to go through the same thing again.

Thinking of moving to another part of the country where a) better nhs, b)People with Autism are treated with more respect …. any ideas where?

ZazzySparkles

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    good idea. I’ve never heard of that condition, thought it was just the brain … will research,thankyou. I had lost use of my legs.So glad your friend was treated well, some compassion left in this wScreamld. Yes, am th8nking o& moving, although challenging when ill. I’d have to make sure someone was ok … so many just walking by looking at their phones like a zombie movieScream. Thanks  PrayHeart️Sparkles

  • in reply to Zazzy

    What a terrible experience, maybe get in touch with a news organisation like BBC Newsnight, they've done a lot to expose hospitals like this.

    Your experience is such a contrast to the treatment my friend recieved after finding he had an Ischaemic leg, he was taken by the critical care team to a hospital a couple of counties along to a specialist vascular unit and has been trated really well.

    I hope you feel better soon, TIA's are really scary things to have and as for people walking past you in the street, that's just awful, nobody round here would of one that