Last night at 3 am I had to take my DD to a and e as she was struggling with her breathing.
Unfortunately this coincided with me having been up all night already vomiting. Second night in a row. It's not a stomach bug, before anyone says I shouldn't have taken my child to the hospital.
I was feeling absolutely rotten. Two nights of no sleep, worry for my DD. Pain, nausea. Everything.
I'm familiar with the hospital as I have found myself many times in there with one of my children in the middle of the night.
Most of the time, we get offered a room, once we've been triaged. Not always, but more often than not. The room has a bed in it and we just stay in there and the doctors come in and out.
I said to the triage nurse last night that I was also feeling extremely unwell and are there any rooms we could possibly wait in. I said I'm sorry for asking and I wouldn't ask unless I really needed to.
She did a scoff / laugh at me for even asking. 9 times out of 10 we have a room and you scoff at me ? I was taken aback by it and in my horrible state for her to just laugh / scoff at me was super rude. I told her, I understand but I really don't appreciate you laughing at me for even asking. I'm really unwell and I wouldn't ask you. It's not very nice that you laughed.
She denied laughing at me. I left it at that and went and sat on the plastic chairs for 6 hours.