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To now understand why people pay for private healthcare?

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SoggyChopSuey · 22/05/2017 19:22

Currently stuck on a ward in which the nurse happily told me I would be in a room with 3 other younger people (the majority of the ward is 70+).

Well it's fucking awful and I've had an argument with another patient and a nurse and an auxiliary all the space of a day.

The other 3 women in the room are loud, gobshite lasses, two of them are "ex" junkies. Every day is the same, wake up to the 3 of them shouting and balling, ripping the piss out of staff, winding each other up and banging on about sex and various other shite. The nurses come in and say stuff like "oh it's a party in here!" But I'm so fed up. I'm the odd one out so a lot of the jokes are on me. Even when they're not, they're vulgar and I just don't want to hear it.

Last night "the party" continued right past midnight, the nurses occasionally bobbed their heads in to ask them to tone it down but it all got laughed off.

I've had hardly any sleep. Every time I dozed off I was woken up by "NURSE!! Any chance of a cuppa?" Etc etc

This morning I was woken up by a brash auxiliary shouting "are you getting up so I can do your bed?". I was exhausted so explained that I'd had hardly any sleep only for one of the women to shout "well her curtains were shut all night, that cute doctor was behind there for ages so kinda putting two and two together here love!" Hmm auxiliary snapped that breakfast was at 8 and they like to have the beds done before then. I got up irritated and went to get a shower fully intending to get back into bed when I returned only to find that he'd stripped my bed and left it like that so that I couldn't use it. I told him I was wanting to get back into bed so he said "it's not a hotel love".

Fast forward - nurse starts doing medication round and these three women immediately start shouting that they need pain relief "NOW" so off goes nurse, prioritising these women to shut them up meaning everyone else had to wait longer to get their basic medications. By 10.00 I'd still not had my 8am pain relief so I asked the nurse how long it would be. Her response was "when I get around to you". The bitches all burst out laughing so I said "well maybe if you didn't pander to the fishwives the rest of us would get a look in". Que - said fishwives all erupt screaming, ffing and blinding and laughing about how hilarious they are.

I asked for a meeting with the charge nurse and told her that I either I was moved out of that room or I'd be placing a formal complaint about the brash auxiliary and the arse kissing nurse. She has now swapped me with an old lady from another room. Now I feel fucking guilty that the poor old woman is in there with these thick as pig shit women hanging around her bed saying "you want a drink don't you love! She hasn't even got a fucking drink! NURSE! Betty hasn't had a drink and she's fucking dehydrated you know what I mean mate?" Meanwhile "Betty" is hiding in her room looking terrified/mortified.

WIBU to ask to be moved??? It was either that or unsafe self discharge. Feel so shit and it pisses me off that scum like this just get everything they want by being obnoxious and loud

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WaitingYetAgain · 23/05/2017 01:37

This is awful. Sad

Also...

I told him I was wanting to get back into bed so he said "it's not a hotel love".

Confused No, it's a hospital for sick people who should be in bed.

thinkiamgoingcrazy · 23/05/2017 05:06

My experience of NHS hospital stays has been OK. Yes noisy if in with other people, but OK. Was on my own in a room after the birth of two of my three children as well. With ds1 was in a room with someone who had just had triplets so that was interesting Grin.

Kokusai · 23/05/2017 07:57

I just took out private healthcare. I'm not sure it covers me against arseholes though

I'd bet my bottom dollar it covers you against being anywhere near people like the Op had to deal with...

AppleOfMyEye10 · 23/05/2017 08:23

Yanbu, comparing friend's experiences of having a baby with my own in private healthcare it's a world of difference. Not to mention your standard gp appointment. Treatment is totally different.

TinyTear · 23/05/2017 08:44

My last hospital stay, my issue wasn't with the younger ones, it was with the old biddy who was racist and rude to the nurses and staff, sexist, and completely simpering to the male doctors

She was ok with me and heard her saying to a friend my daughters were very polite, but still, you have to be since to everyone, not just who you want, so I was polite but curt with her and had to keep my curtains closed for a week as I didn't want to look at her face or talk to her

ems137 · 23/05/2017 08:53

I remember when I was in and out of hospital a lot at age 14-16 my consultant always got me moved to the private ward straight away. I think it was because I was at that in between stage of being a child and an adult, the children's ward was full of very young, very sick children.

Oh it was amazing compared to the adults wards I had to stay on until my consultant found me! I had an old lady stroke my face telling me she remembers my funeral and it was such a shame my baby died, quite scary at 14 years old! There was poor old ladies peeing themselves, crying and shouting and loud, obnoxious, sweary people too.

Even at that age I remember saying I wish I could afford private health care.

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