93 year old still in A&e

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9.15 pm last night Mil was taken into hospital.
As of 10pm tonight she is still in A&E.
We are not allowed to visit.
They are so busy and short staffed that apart from
one nurse this morning the only other person we have
spoken to is the cleaner. Each time she has tried to
get hold of a nurse but told that they are busy and will try
to call us back but Mil is comfortable.
The stress the staff must be under will be immense.

So sorry your MIL is going through this - my 89 year old dm was in A&E for over 12 hours recently - luckily remembers nothing about this. It's shit but safer than being at home and unwell. The staff will be doing the very best they can - you can't influence what's happening - learnt that the hard way, but I know that's very hard to accept.

My mum is coming home tomorrow, 😁

Take care and grit your teeth

is it an off-shoot of A&E ?
Like EAU?

What do you mean you are not allowed to visit?
Why?

I would be walking in there to see her. She is vulnerable, has she been fed and had liquids? She needs an advocate/care taker

Same here -she is vulnerable- get yourself up there

I was kept overnight at A&E but there was a small ward behind the main A&E part. It was fairly quiet and the bed was more comfortable than the rock hard A&E cubicle one.
I would be worried about food and liquid intake though in an elderly person when they seem so short staffed. Could either you or DH take a LF flow test ( photograph it, that would give a time) and go to check on her?

Thank you for your replies.
She has had food and drink. We know she is in a side area(Fil was in there a few times)
It was a proper hospital bed just not on a ward.
Mil finally got on to a ward about midnight.
At the moment she is being completely assessed so to phone back in a couple of hours then we can speak to her nurse.
Our hospital are allowing visitors for one hour from tomorrow.

My mother is 91, and spent 36 hrs in A and E two weeks ago before being admitted.

She's back there again now, and am not expecting to hear anything until Tuesday or Wednesday next week. Unless of course she dies, in which case I assume someone will be in touch.

I've learned it is pointless trying to ring as no one answers the phone. And as a pp rightly said, you cannot influence what happens. Trying to do so just adds further stress to the situation.

Oh and when they did eventually ring, they read out the wrong patient's notes, and told me falsely she had tested positive for COVID.

I don't really blame the staff- it sounds like hell in there to be honest.

So. Just got through to hospital switchboard.
Still in A and E. arrived yesterday at about 9.30 am.
Put through but of course phone unanswered.
This is just disgraceful