Doctors won’t see me (saga continues)

[TheCatsPaws]

Previous posts about severe anxiety, recurrent miscarriages.

Had a D&C on Wednesday. Yesterday had a raging temperature, coloured discharge and general unwell feeling. Rang EPU who said to make an emergency doctors appointment today re possible infection.

Got an emergency appointment today. Stuck in traffic for half an hour because road is covered in snow. Rang GP, stuck on phone for 20 minutes. Got told by a receptionist that “sorry you’re too late, we won’t see you”

I explained I had surgery on Wednesday and the ward thinks I have an infection, and wants me to see a dr today. “Sorry that’s our policy”. After much arguing, I asked if she’ll be personally responsible if I get sepsis to which she just quoted policy at me again.

AIBU to be fuming? I’m going down to the surgery and demanding to see the manager right now.

@Lemony read the thread, she's said many times she left an hour early...

I was with you Op until you started the "my doctors appointment is more important than yours" argument. Then I gave up. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I was with you Op until you started the "my doctors appointment is more important than yours" argument.

Some appointments are more urgent, a post surgery fever is more serious than certain minor issues. I have no problem waiting when it’s the other way around and I am the person with the minor illness.

As it happens, I do have an infection, so I’m bloody glad I didn’t get fobbed off with no appointment!

I’m glad you’re being looked after. It sounds like it’s been caught and you don’t have sepsis which is obviously very good news. I think, the bottom line is, the EPU were responsible for your ongoing care and your GP surgery got a bad rap in this case.

Yes I do think the EPU should’ve seen me. It was a Sunday when I rang which is the reason they apparently didn’t.

Oh draylon - how insensitive

What the hell does your personal view on your own losses have to do with OP, draylon? Why would you say that?

Draylon and I believe you sound like a massive wanker.

Like where was the need to say that? At all?

OP glad you are being treated now.

draylon good for you. Not everyone feels like you - do you want a shiny badge? 🙄

The treatment of op on here has been horrendous. I’d say leaving 40 minutes early for a normally 20 minute journey in bad weather is sensible - but no one knows the variables, these things can be impossible to plan for. When ideally do you want her to leave - 3 hours before? 4? She’s at the mercy of other road users and her parents.

This is a woman with recurrent miscarriages, anxiety, and now an infection. Hope you all feel good about yourselves berating her.

I'm actually with Draylon. Lots of valid points. Definitely so many posters have no idea of the strains on the NHS. I guarantee it won't be there for our children's children. It's so abused and disrespected. Agree 100 per cent that a failure of organisation on your part does not constitute a A crisis on my part. For the op to ask will you "be personally responsible if I get sepsis " you don't "get " sepsis you develop it from an overwhelming out of control infection and if you had sepsis you most certainly would not be sat posting to mumsnet in AIBU!

I’ve reported that post. What a disgusting thing to say. Op as someone that’s recently had a d and c and a horrid lengthy miscarriage, you have my sympathy and just to let you know that things will get better.

Runlike I've posted on here 20 minutes out of theatre . Lass was posting on here from HDU where they were discussing if she needed ventilated. Lady haeomrraging with sepsis posted on here. I've had perfectly lucid conversations with adults suffering bleeding on the brain waiting on life saving surgery. Seen adults walk to shop 36 hours after a craniotomy. People can compensate for illness and in early stages will be perfectly able to post.

None of us are able to tell OP she did, or does not have, sepsis because we're not with her and not checking her vital signs.

And whether people feel they lost cells or not, that makes no difference to the OP who in her belief has lost her baby. We shouldn't invalidate her feelings.

How is it a failure of organisation when I set out an hour early in the snow, and I’m not even the driver?!

I made no mention of losing cells tbf and to be honest the rest of your post sounds slightly ridiculous

In what way ridiculous ? For saying that you (or anyone else) can't judge anyone as not having sepsis because she was able to use a mobile phone? I've worked in critical care and high dependency units and have cared for patients with sepsis in the early stages. You can't make an accurate judgement on anyone's illness online.

I wasn't talking about you when referring to cells either, referring to previous poster.

And you don't haemorrhage with sepsis!

No - but you can have both. As far as I recall she had retained tissue in cervix leading to a haemorraghe and sepsis (from the tissue).

Anyway I don't want to argue, or derail OP's thread as I'm shattered - OP, hope things are getting sorted. New GP sounds good, hopefully you'll be given support with all this .

Why are you giving the op a hard time? She's been very measured in her responses, given some of the posts.
Imo she was right to insist she was seen. It was out of her control that she was late. An hour earlier departure was more than reasonable.

Get well soon op.

And she said " discoloured discharged " that is not a haemorrhage

Op sounds fit and well to me

Well, she isn't. Cut her some fucking slack.

Filthy language!