Hospital ward CF stories

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Can anyone beat mine?

I was admitted to hospital today and so far the neighbour in the bed next to me has:

⁃	Stolen my pillow
⁃	Stolen my fan 
⁃	Moved her curtain around MY cupboard and put all her stuff on it - I now have nowhere to put anything 
⁃	Plugged her phone into my plug socket 
⁃	Had about 5 noisy visitors all of whom brought some kind of smelly takeaway
⁃	Had a nap. Snored her head off 
⁃	Complained loudly about everything and everyone on the ward disturbing her - all the other ladies are quiet as mice 

A lovely nurse is going to try and move me!

Catrescue1971 yes I've been moved to the other hospital now and no CF on my new ward. I'll be here a while but feeling better than I was.

Winterdaysarehere can't imagine getting the urge to DTD in this environment - let alone in the same room as my sick child! But at least it was in a private room and not a ward I guess. Still pretty grim.

@chasingrainbows19. We had exactly the same thing. A child was dying on the ward. It was obvious to the other parents what was happening. (Patient was so poorly she was next to nurses station) we were very stretched and all the other parents were fantastic except one who said exactly the same as your parent!

... which is why the NHS has got to be reformed.

When things are FREE, they get ABUSED.

Bring back Mrs Thatcher, she was the only leader with the balls handbag to bash the citizenry into accepting what is better for them in the long run.

Time after time, the screeching from the left would die down once people experienced the new and better, and found it actually cost them LESS after all (time, taxes, queues, better service). The NHS would be no different and this sort of abuse would rapidly shrink.

ScreamingLadySutch Strongly disagree. If people were actually paying for the NHS I imagine they would be much more demanding.

Most of the stories shared on here would still have happened if it was a paid service.

The CF patients are a PITA but rather they get their treatment than be left to die if they couldn't afford it.

*this sort of abuse would rapidly shrink.

@ScreamingLadySutch*

Can you explain how paying for a service would deter cf? Would it not make them more entitled EG I paid for this so I'll milk it?

Or are you suggesting that hospitals have a huge billing menu for visitors?

You lay on a bed £1 per minute the bed was in use
Nurse made you tea £10
More than 2 at your bedside £10 per additional visitor.
£100 to bring smelly food in.
£200 for a loyd phonecall and £50 for a quiet but irritating call..... it could get tricky to enforce

@Winterdaysarehere pretty concerned about where you were dtd.. if it was in the bed that's pretty grim given a nurse has to change those sheets, if it was anywhere else (I dunno, chair?!) then someone else has to sit there.. I mean come on.

Winterdays that is rank

Winter that's not CF, that's just crass, rank and disgusting. Your kid's in hospital and you shag in there because it's Valentine's? Gross.

Wouldn’t it be considered non-contact sexual abuse?

Winterdaysarehere

Ds wasn't ill and door was locked.

Aww...
Well, it was Valentine's Day and you and OH have such a hot relationship that, well, a cuddle led on to dtd*.

And you put such a cute in too, 'cos you're naughty but nice...

A CF is the absolute best way you could be described.
I've come across CFs that would feel queasy at the thought of you and OH banging away in a locked hospital room with DS admitted for concerns about not gaining weight next to you.

Because how could you know he wasn't ill then?
If you knew he wasn't, why had he been admitted?

*And, really: "dtd"?
You can fuck in a hospital room but you can't call it "fucking"?

Of course not.
You obviously have standards.

When DD was in the paediatric hospital there were plenty of skanks with no self control unable to resist behaving like dogs. I went outside to vape one night with some friends after the kids went to sleep and we saw a scuzzy couple fucking in the back seat of a car in the car park right under a huge light and in full view of the rooms on the first floor. Security put a stop to it, but boak. I guess, maybe it was Valentine's and they decided to 'cuddle'. Raunchy AF!

@IndianaMoleWoman the diabetic lady could have had low blood sugar. Sugary drinks is a fast way to raise blood glucose.

Having insulin for food and then not eating that food is dangerous. The insulin on board would be plummeting blood sugar that isn't there.

With really low blood sugar DS looks and acts like an angry little drunk person. His brain can't function without the glucose to feed it.

I hope his never judged by someone with no idea whats happening.

I hope you can get some decent rest now OP

@FireUnderpants did you actually read my post? I wasn’t judging her for having diabetes, I was judging her family for demanding hospital staff went and got her a cheese pasty from Greggs because she refused the food that she had chosen and ordered from an extensive menu earlier in the day. Should the families of diabetics be allowed to do that?!
With regards to the sugars in the tea, she was told not to have sugar in her tea by the consultant. After two days of listening to her scream like she was being murdered every four hours around the clock, the staff took pity on me and moved me. I don’t think her massive over reactions were connected to the diabetes, but even if they were, you have somehow tried to make me feel guilty and accused me of being judgemental for being inconvenienced by being woken by screaming half the night. I hope you calm down a bit in 2020!

How about you pay for BUPA ScreamingLady (apt name) and leave the rest of us alone.

@Velveteenfruitbowl - me and my family have comprehensive private healthcare too - I'm sorry to inform you that it doesn't cover emergencies or chronic conditions and I'm overnight for days in an NHS children's ward regularly with DD.

Don't think you won't ever find yourself in a similar situation to OP. - we all need to fight for better NHS funding, even though you think you might be covered elsewhere.

I was in after an emergency CSection a few years ago. I have a disability that affects my legs, so had an electric bed an air mattress and pneumatic pumps on my legs as the couldn't use the surgical stockings. So with whose and the drip and BP machine I had quite a few things plugged in. The lady in the next bed kept unplugging everything so that she could charge her phone and ipad.

My husband recently had bladder stones removed at a Nuffield. (We don't usually go private, but the NHS waiting time was at least 6 months and he couldn't wait that long) They said if he needed emergency treatment they'd have to get him helicoptered to the Royal Sussex County hospital nearby.

I agree that the NHS need serious reform. If that means paying a little for our own health care then we should seriously look at it.

Not accepting that it needs reviewing and that all that needs to happen is for more money to be given is not the answer. It’s the 5th largest employer in the world. Why??

As this thread shows there are CFs everywhere and recently my DM had need to use the NHS. The paramedics driving her to hospital both said charges need to be applied due to the abuse of the service

A fair amount of NHS hospitals have private rooms. It’s a revenue generator for them. Why is it wrong to have a private room and BUPA?

Also get CF families bringing elderly people in for some suspected illness then buggering off for a Xmas holiday - nothing wrong with the elderly person the family just don't want to look after them over the festive period. Happens every year.

This used to drive me mad when I was a hospital doctor. Now I am a GP, I see how often carers are at the end of their tether, due to the lack of support or respite care in the community. It's easy to criticise families but, if they are looking after elderly relatives 24/7, they do need a break - it just shouldn't be in an acute hospital. The trouble is, most have no access to respite care.

When something is free for some there is no value to it. Abuse it - who cares? You won’t get any consequences and actually the more you do it the easier it becomes because you start to get to know how to milk the system

"often younger people with alcohol or addiction issues (I know that may be a controversial statement but I'm just saying what I see!)"

this is not a controversial statement at all. Addiction and NARCISSISM are closely correlated.
So is psychopathy and addiction.
There is a correlation between psychopathy and homelessness by the way...

[if you think about it, what sort of person gets rejected and abandoned by family and people who love them? All the above: addicts, narcissists and psychopaths. Because abandoning people who abuse you is a healthy response]

When in after having my dd, the girl next to me got the midwives to do everything for her, nappy changes, feeds and changing clothes. I then heard her tell her newborn that her husband better be there soon to look after the baby as she was fed up and didn't have time to look after a baby, the baby was less than a day old.

And this wasn't baby blues or pnd, she took great pleasure in telling us all that she did nothing for her other three children and it was up to her husband and family to look after the children. She also then called me a cow for breastfeeding.