Come on old maggot legs

[CocoChan]

Took my grandma to an appointment earlier ... leg dressing. The nurse came out and said “come on old maggot legs!”. My grandma smiled awkwardly and went into her appointment. Another bloke in the waiting room said “she calls me mouldy toes”.

When My grandma came out I asked her what the maggot legs was about and she hushed me and said in her last app she had maggots on her dressings.

My grandma was dead against me complaining. WIBU to complain anyway?? I’m feeling bad as my grandma doesn’t know she’s the centre of a complaint but the nurse said this in front of other patients!!

Not the best really

I have no problems with mutual name jokes where both people get it, this is not on

I think complaining on your Grans behalf when she’s asked you not to is infantilising and inappropriate. If she’s got mental capacity then it’s not down to anyone else to be complaining for her.

For fuck's sake, NO this is not ok!

Sterile maggots - one thing. Random maggots - another.

Someone in receipt of sterile maggots might well find it fascinating and be cheerful about the whole thing and make it clear they are comfortable being open about it. Even then, the nurse in question would be taking a risk because it's not her bloody call to broadcast it.

Somebody who discovers they have maggots in a wound at their last visit? Yeah, not so much.

that’s shocking! poor woman

@Greeneyes78

i would have called her an ambulance!!

Ambulance????

@AuntieJoyce

Mouldy toes didn’t seem happy either

Well, one wouldn’t would one?

Fascinated by the maggot teabags. Would not want to be mixing those up with my Tetleys

Omg I can't breathe! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm a nurse and would never call a patient a similar pet name (for want of a better phrase)! Rude, unnessacery, embarrassing to say the least!

Absolutely make a complaint, if it makes you feel better about doing so - generally this kind of complaint is dealt directly by the manager and the nurse in question and anonymously. So you don't need to worry about your grandmother being at the centre of a complaint :)

@Porcupineinwaiting

She shouldn't have said it but if your gran likes her, I'd maybe have a quiet word rather than complain. And when I'd had it, or maybe even before, I'd be asking about the maggots.

This

Well I wouldn't be giggling or LOL-ing or 😂😂😂 if I had a painful wound that became infested with maggots (but apologies if that image has set some of you off spitting out your coffee again - totes hilaire).

Anyway, I would be feeling deeply upset and ashamed, and dirty tbh - even knowing it wasn't my fault. I'd want nothing more than to be reassured that I wasn't some kind of disgusting aberration, and then I'd want to forget all about it. This nurse is making your gran feel like she's the only one, and reminding her of a horribly distressing experience. You do have to say something, I think.

Just to add ... grandma lives on a farm, she’s on antibiotics.

Apparently when the maggots were discovered the nurse told her not to worry but there were maggots on the dressing. Not on the actual wound, inbetween the dressing. She then sorted antibiotics for her. I’ve called the surgery today to retract my complaint as my grandma did not want the nurse in trouble. She said she was making a joke of it as she knows grandma is anxious. It’s the confidentiality I’m annoyed about. Shouldn’t have been broadcast in the waiting room but to be fair there was only my grandma and mouldy toes in there as they’re only letting two in at a time

Hmm Maybe she's just astonishingly socially inept, I suppose. With a bit of luck she'll hear about the complaint anyway and take it as a shot across the bows.

I work in the nhs as a hcp and the nurse is crossing professional boundaries and making people feel uncomfortable.

Humour is really important and can boost spirits and help relax people, but she has gone too far. I would be embarrassed about the maggot situation.

I've have complained on behalf on my mum who would rather die than complain. It was a safety issue which could have affected other patients. It's not Infantilising if it's a reasonable complaint.

sense of humour? what now
imagine if she worked in plastic surgery, oh come on in saggy tits

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I think that is completely unprofessional behaviour.

If my grandparent had asked me not to complain then I wouldn't have however if it were up to me I absolutely would have.

Your poor gran! No, she shouldn't be announcing your grandmas condition in a waiting room.

I would speak with the nurse, there’s humor and then there’s ignoring someone’s right to dignity and privacy. If your gran’s not happy then speak up for her.

I'd struggle not to call her "old bitch face" or "socially and professionally inept twat" if she had called me "old maggot legs"

What a disgusting way to speak to someone vulnerable. I would continue with the complaint. I understand she may not want to make trouble for anyone, but it's absolutely not on that a professional speaks to someone like that.