Hospital ward CF stories

[SapphosRock]

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!

@SapphosRock and @Patroclus...

[sigh] YOU ARE ALREADY PAYING for the NHS.

It is how it is structured. If you have money in a coffee jar or under the mattress or in the stock market or money in the bank ... you still have money, don't you! You just have put it in different places with different results, that's all.

PLEASE try and wrap your minds around this concept. Especially you @Patroclas because using emotions and insult instead of thinking is not very bright #justsaying.

Got the concept of YOUR MONEY, different vehicles? Consider this:

1. OUR MONEY currently goes into NI contributions which is then given BY THE STATE to BUREAUCRATS (layers and layers of them) to provide a service 'for free'. It absolutely is not. Which, despite its best intentions, is wasteful and inefficient (because the State always is) and comes with Moral Hazard (CFuckery).

1. We can be left with OUR MONEY (reduced or no more NI contributions) which can be put INTO A DIFFERENT COFFEE JAR from NI contributions, namely HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRIBUTION. You are now paying for your own health insurance, but it isn't costing you any more than it always did, in fact probably less. But it is tied directly, to you.

1. That contribution does not go to a BUPA or AXA company, but into a central pool. This is billions and billions of pounds but instead of washing over like a flood of water, is tied to specific, individual claims. ALL PAID FOR, Different coffee jar, remember...

1. When you go to use health services, you are treated like a private patient, because that is in fact what you are. Your treatment is paid out of the central pool, but it is tied to you and all the layers and layers of bureaucrat managers no longer exist to dilute the money and structure inefficiency into the system. Moral Hazard (CFuckery) now has a cost attached.

I hope your brains have not exploded yet. Just think about it for a while. Same money, same medical system, different payment structure. That's it. It is so obvious that you have to be brainwashed [Change Means Death!!!] not to get it.

Way to derail a thread and get laid into someone ill I'm hospital @ScreamingLadySutch. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion even if it's not the same as yours.

Not interested Screaming, go bore your relatives.

What AMAZING insight, Sutch. REALLY fantastic EXPLANATIONS that DEFINITELY aren't straight from the Daily Mail and have a basis in TRUE FACT. Well DONE!

@ScreamingLadySutch I think you might need to do some more research , that's not how it works. Have a look at the concept of personal health allowances. Plus the healthcare we receive is not solely acute based services. Preventative and community and educational (which are required in a functioning society as any social theory proves ) form part of the pot.

Whether ir not I agree with you posting like that your argument is incorrect and based on bad information. Do some more research and try and again.

OP I feel for you , two years ago after a stroke at 38 I was admitted to a ward and my usually calm and laid back DP was near breaking point with other peoples visitors taking my chair and bedside cabinet because I couldn't move or speak to stop them. He extremely unusually had to walk away from one woman who was unbelievably entitled and actually asked him if it mattered a swpuld I know the difference (I wasn't unconscious obviously I would have been in icu but I couldn't move very much and my speech was slow to come back so couldn't respond to stop her because the words wouldn't come)....I knew exactly what she was doing.

He works in elderly care and usually has the patience of a saint but I've never seen him that angry. When he pointed out pictures of my kids were in the top so I could see them to help me fight to recover she said " well that's not my problem is it ....you ar being very rude" , he went to the nurses station and I dont know what happened but the sister came and shut the curtain said something to the woman and her husband , returned the cabinet and the woman didn't peep and avoided DP's gaze.

He still gets angry now because he said she basically treated me as if I was already dead and she had more right because of being older (she referred to this in her vile speech I'm not just guessing)

She was gone by the time I fully regained my speech or I would have told her exactly what I thought and reminded her that although I couldn't move a lot or speak or respond quickly I could hear and understand everything.

Go bore your cell mate.

@missnevermind I can't believe the cf unplugged medical equipment to charge her phone. Some people astonish me

If it were up to me I'd have a big cage outside the hospital and chuck all these people in. When they can behave civilly to staff and fellow patients alike, then they get treated. Otherwise they can rot.

Shinyletsbebadguys that's awful some people seem to lose all consideration or empathy for others on hospital wards. They bring out the worst in people. Glad you made a recovery.

As a nurse, I remonstrated with some unruly child visitors who were twiddling the dials on the bank of cardiac monitors facing the nurses station. Monitors that patients were actually attached to. The parents were less than pleased that I had interfered with their children’s fun.