To be furious

[Threelittleduck]

How has the NHS come to this? My DD had a seizure in the summer. We went to hospital but discharged later.
Nothing has happened but today she had two seizures. One at around 9 and one an hour ago. Called ambulance after her seizure at 9, they said it would be hours for an ambulance but 4 hours? After she's had a second seizure? I can't drive her as had a Covid jab yesterday and am feeling sick and dizzy and DH has been drinking.
I mean thank fuck it's not life threatening! (I know she'd be higher priority before anyone takes that seriously).
She's asleep on the sofa now and I'm sat with her, feeling tired, ill and worried about DD
Is this what the country has come to? Is that government actually going to do anything to help our healthcare system and support those who work in it.

You know taxis don't want people seizing in their taxi right? They certainly don't want people urinating in their either

Strange how in the space of 7 minutes the ambulance arrived but you were still checking and replying to a mumsnet thread.

I wouldn’t be on mumsnet if my daughter was having seizures. Take a towel in the taxi in case of accidents or drive slowly yourself. Do anything, something!

I put my hand up as another one who thinks the op sees the ambulance as a free taxi. How dizzy do you really get the day after a Covid jab let’s be honest? The nhs is also on its knees because so many people in the country take the absolute piss with its services.

Okay well next time I feel I'm about to pass out I'll just drive anyway

Hope your daughter is ok xx

Yes, there are issues with the NHS. But I personally wouldn’t be alive today without them. Whilst hopefully the system does begin to improve, we always have to be grateful for what we have.

I also have no understanding why you couldn’t have taken a taxi if truly too unwell to drive. Equally if you were so unwell, why on earth did your partner drink? Someone has to be a responsible parent!

i really hope )our daughter gets the help she needs.

How is your daughter?

Okay no clearly I'm lying about feeling like absolute shit and my DD being in hospital! I'm not but clearly people think I am. Thank you for those who were supportive but some of you if you can't be bothered to be decent to someone who is incredibly stressed then maybe don't comment.
I will come back when we know what's happening but apart from that I will not.

This is a bit strange. There has always been situations where people have to get themselves to hospital.

I remember, when DS was very young and asleep, bundling DH on an uber and worryingly tracking him all the way there. Then keeping him on thr phone until I knew he was in the waiting room, and not fainted in the car patk somewhere.

It was scary, but 111 had made clear he needed to go hospital but the situation didn't warrant an ambulance.

It feels a little bit of an unfair expectation to put on the health service, where there are two parents, granted one drunk and one a bit woozy.

If my daughter was having an actual medical emergency of course I would drive with covid / a bit of dizziness. It's amazing what you can do when you have to.

Hope your DD gets the help she needs x

@Threelittleduck that is appalling and I can't believe how dismissive and rude other posters are being. When my dd used to have seizures I was told by multiple doctors that due to the pattern of her seizures I should call an ambulance and I mustn't attempt to drive her myself. Your dd was clearly in need of an ambulance and it's disgusting that one wasn't available. If it's anything like round here they will all be queued up outside a&e unable to discharge their patients because there aren't enough staff on a weekend to deal with them.

Also how is your dd now?

Really, even if she was having seizures and you were feeling really unwell? I wouldn’t …

Yes I would have driven my child in an emergency even if I felt unwell

No I don't drink if I'm the only adult in the house

This is a parenting issue not a political one

(And the worst run NHS group in the country is the one in Wales which has been run by Labour for years. The NHS problem is not a Tories one)

I hope your daughter is ok, repeated seizures ate petrifying.

Not being able to drive isn’t a reason to call an ambulance though. It’s not a taxi.

I can’t believe you’re returning to this thread to argue with people at 6 in the morning while your DD is in hospital.

YANBU but only if you didn't keep on voting the Tories in because they deliberately destroyed our NHS and it was obvious that they were going to do that.

You can't expect the new government to fix it overnight.

I wanted the Tories out many years ago. Others felt differently, kept voting them back in and now this is what we've got.

Yes. It. Is.

But you keep telling yourself lies. Wales gets its funding from central government. Don't be ridiculous please..

Or, the daughter would begin to fit in the car, she could bang her head, or knock into the driver. The driver would be distracted and could cause an accident.
Its really horrid to wait 4 hours, but an ambulance is the best way to get to hospital in this instance.

Hope your DD is ok. I don’t understand why your DH thought it was ok to drink when his daughter had already had one seizure that day. And because he couldn’t you blame the NHS. I wouldn’t be waiting hours for an ambulance, i’d have got a taxi (and paid a fee for any clean up) or asked family / friends.

Very sorry to hear this.

The NHS is not fit for purpose and needs structural reform including taking apart.

the ambulance service are stretched beyond limit
there were other alternatives op

Presumably the husband isn't so smashed that he couldn't look after her in the car.