So my father is seriously ill in hospital and receiving enemas as part of his condition. Ward is seriously short-staffed and I can see they're genuinely doing their best and working tremendously hard, but AIBU to ask if anyone knows whether it is standard practice after an enema to leave a patient in bed with a pad under them, which they are then expected to soil and then be cleaned up by staff afterwards? (He's heavy and hard to lift on to a commode, but this has been managed by the staff on previous days when he's received enemas, albeit it's taken two people.) This happened to my father today and the staff didn't seem to understand why he was upset by it (he doesn't have any dementia and is normally in full control of his toilet needs).
I'd rather not give any more context in case I out myself if anyone involved is on MN, as my beef isn't necessarily with the ward or hospital, who have done a great deal to help us. My beef is that the system seems to have come to consider this an acceptable way to manage someone's toileting needs. My family was left feeling very upset by this today (and, on my father's part, humiliated). It's left me wondering how normal a practice this is, because if this is really what the neglect of the NHS has done to the service, I think those up top who have been systematically trying to starve the NHS out of existence should hang their heads in shame.
Just needed to vent and wondered if anyone else had been through same, either themselves or with a relative.