Can I get compensation? Assaulted at hospital

[Plzstopthisstupidity]

Good evening Mumsnet

My sister recently announced she is pregnant and it brought back a memory of something I had buried.

5 years ago, I had a C-section. The day after in hospital, when I was recovering, a nurse grabbed me by the neck in a hallway of patients, staff and visitors and threatened me. She verbally and physically assaulted me.

I can’t discuss the reasons behind it but long story short was she verbally abused me in private (my room) and then when she heard me trying to complain, she grabbed me.

The manager of the maternity ward saw this and spoke to me. She apologised and comforted me. I was humiliated, sobbing and traumatised at the time.

I moved on. I still think about it… more so recently.

I was given the nurse’s name and found out that she is still working in the hospital (this was a year ago not sure if she is still there now).

I am starting to feel immensely angry about what happened. Part of me wants to take legal action.

Mumsnet: is there anything I can do? Is it worth even doing anything as it’s been so long since it happened?

just looking for ideas/advice - thank you!!

Grow up.

How did the stocking cover the ops bottom ?

Another patient apparently pulled the stockings up to cover her bottom ? They only
Go up to the knee ?

I genuinely feel there is some false memory happening here due to drugs .

Op - ask for your notes . I suspect you aren't going to read what you remember , but I'd ask for them . And you're way too late for compensation.
Can't be proven either way . You can however ruin a career if you want to . Based on??????

Do surgical stockings cover your arse? I’d seek medical help if so!

Perhaps, perhaps not. For what it’s worth though, when you’ve been on MN for a long time, you often will get accused of a thread not being true at some point, I’m sure you’ve had that experience, Capability. It’s really hard when it’s about something traumatic and people pick you to pieces over the details, as though they’re winning a contest. So I can have empathy and I bet you do too?

Can't be proven either way . You can however ruin a career if you want to . Based on??????

I highly doubt OP would ruin a career without evidence. So if it can't be proven, then no career ruined. But if it happened, I hope she gets her comeuppance and her career is ruined.

So we are to believe a nurse assaulted a patient in full view of patients and other staff and absolutely nothing came of it except she signed a bit of paper ?

I'd ask or the notes . I'm sorry but no , I don't believe this happened as the op recalls it did . After a c section you're gonna be off your tits on drugs and the effects of anaesthesia. I don't believe it happened and the sole purpose of his thread was for compensation. I assume monetary. How would a payout help if this an actually happened?

The op needs to ask for her records and read them .

I was in hospital once on a lot of drugs. I remember feeling that the security were being threatening with me and specifically thinking I was going to wet myself but that they wouldn't let me go to the toilet.

The reality is that they'd actually taken me four or five times already and every single time I'd just looked around and talked nonsense about tigers and wouldn't use the toilet.

Could you leave it now, please?

What careers are you worried about OP ruining? If you think it's all lies or delusion?

Op honestly those drugs do alot. After my emcs I thought I had never been pregnant and called a coworker to complain that I had no idea why my mom was asking when my baby was due and I was furious at her pretending. I had crazy hallucinations that felt very real even now years later

As someone who has had a c-section I can confirm you absolutely are NOT ‘off your tits on drugs and the effects of anaesthesia’. A c-section is in almost all cases done with a spinal block, not a general anaesthetic - you’re fully conscious the entire time, and it doesn’t affect your brain.

I have a completely clear and coherent recollection of the entire process of my c-section, and the period following. I was immediately (once sewn up) allowed to hold my baby, breastfeed, do skin to skin etc - all things I certainly wouldn’t have been capable of if I had been ‘off my tits on drugs’. I had full mental capacity the entire time - before, during and after.

There is a disturbingly casual misogyny to posters discounting OP’s experience in this way. Women have been minimised, disregarded and let down by the medical profession for centuries because of the assumption that they can’t be trusted to know their own bodies, and here you are seeking to discredit the OP based on your own misunderstanding of what a c-section involves.

compensation is literally the title of the thread. Literally every single person who clicked on it, due to that title, read this post from the starting point of compensation ergo money. Are there unkind comments? Yes. Is it disingenuous of you distance yourself from the money position? Also yes.

‘Could you leave it now, please?’

This. Hopefully you’ll get bored with your oddly obsessive determination to ‘prove’ yourself. Time to step away from the keyboard. Or at least change your name. Your behaviour on this thread WILL follow you on MN.

@Ploctopus even with a spinal anaesthetic, fentanyl is used.

I wish people on MN wouldn't keep perpetuating this highly mistaken view that people can only claim compensation for injury if they can show financial loss. It is very well established indeed that, if someone is entitled to compensation, that will include general damages, i.e. damages for things like shock, pain, suffering, inconvenience, and ongoing trauma. Nor is there anything that says you can only claim if it was really serious, and the law recognises that people don't necessarily pursue claims at the time of injury for various reasons including the mental health effects of the injury itself.

I'm not saying that applies here - apart from anything else, I suspect too much time has gone by - but can we not keep spreading this disinformation?

It is a local anaesthetic. If you’re implying it somehow creates the same result as popping fentanyl pills you clearly have a bizarre agenda.

At no point in my entire c-section procedure was my brain even slightly affected. You are conscious, clear-headed and of sound mind the entire time (unless you have something else going on which affects your mental capacity).

Post C-section tights are not at all uncommon

https://www.activetruth.com.au/blogs/active-truth-blog/what-to-wear-after-a-c-section#:~:text=A%20pair%20of%20maternity%20recovery,aid%20healing%20and%20reduce%20swelling

It is a local anaesthetic. If you’re implying it somehow creates the same result as popping fentanyl pills you clearly have a bizarre agenda

I know what a spinal anaesthetic is. I'm a midwife.

Fentanyl and diamorphine are frequently injected into the space, along with the lignocaine.

I haven't rtft but surely if your motivation was to stop this person being around other patients you should have reported it & followed it up at the time. For that reason YABU

Just for the record, I was the first person to mention money on the thread as it seems a not unreasonable form of compensation to wish for after an assault. Sorry @Plzstopthisstupidity .

That is true for you but it's not true for everyone. Plenty of people have hallucinations under drugs that other people have no issue or effects from.

I for one had hallucinations after c-section (had a happy life so didn’t go to a dark place but still very real to me at the time)

@Hospitalshmospital Do you also tell rape victims that they are being unreasonable for ‘letting’ rapists walk around free after they have been raped by them? Because I didn’t report my rapist either, he’s still walking around. Another victim of his took him to court but there was not enough evidence and lo & behold he’s still walking around. That must be my fault too? lol your logic is astounding.

@Plzstopthisstupidity I really think it would be to the best benefit of your mental health to step away from this thread now. It's totally derailed from the OP and just turned into a general mudslinging match.