Best behaviour you've encountered on a hospital ward

[amymel2016]

Just to offer some balance this evening...

I've had some amazing care from the NHS recently. Everything from the HCA who saved me a bed next to the window after I'd had my DS to the Consultant I saw last week who put my mind at ease about my most recent illness.

I also love the dinner lady who slipped me an extra ice cream!

Completely out of it with pneumonia.
The nurse who at a little after 2am said she would bring me tea if I promised to wee, so they could test my urine.
There has never been a better cup of tea or a longer wee.

Great thread!
4 years ago my Mum had bowel cancer.
From the moment I took her to the doctors -in a lot of pain -who spent nearly half an hour with her, to the day she was discharged from hospital 9 weeks later, her care was exemplary. The GP sent us straight to the hospital where she was admitted immediately. She was actually 48 hours from death;turned out she had a massive tumour in her bowel that burst and she had septiceamia.If the gp hadn't sent us to the hospital when she did, my Mum wouldn't be here today.
Every member of staff, from the tea lady to her consultant (who would sit by her bed and hold her hand as he talked to her) were amazing. Angels without wings, every one of them.
Hospitals are understaffed and the staff there are overworked. They do the best they possibly can and my Mum never went without anything whilst she was there. Her aftercare was brilliant-she had chemo for many weeks-and at the age of 82 she is still with us and enjoying life.
NHS I salute you!
(and maybe if the government didn't waste money on things like the HS2 the NHS wouldn't struggle as much.But that's a different thread.....)

I also have a friend who awoke from a spinal operation to be told she was paralysed from the waist down and would never walk again.
After a couple of days she hit rock bottom, couldn't stop crying and was talking about suicide. A wonderful nurse sat with her for 14 HOURS just talking and listening to her. 14HOURS!!
Amazing!!

I have a sister with severe learning difficulties, she has the understanding of a child in an adult body. She can be extremely difficult and had been in hospital for 5 days with a broken leg and was refusing to have a cannula due to a real fear of needles. It came to a point where she really needed bloods taken as she was clearly unwell with an infection. I eventually bribed her to have them done and told the poor wee junior doctor who was waiting outside he had two minutes to do it or she would change her mind again! He did it quickly and with a good sense of humour.
Then as the bloods had come up with a urine infection she had to have a catheter fitted which she was completely refusing and by now it was late evening. It was all pretty stressful and the nurses on the ward could not handle my sister at all. Suddenly this angel came from behind the curtain she was the senior nurse on duty that night in a huge teaching hospital so she was in charge of all the wards. She came in and sat with us and talked to my sister about everything except the procedure that had to be done, she talked about her family and her pets and cuddled the teddy that my sister had with her. She then suggested that she had a little look at my sister and see what was happening, the end result was she put the catheter in. She must have been busy that night but you would never have known that, she was with us for ages! She was amazing and I will never forget her. I'm in tears now. I did pass on to senior management my thoughts on her.