to want to know before 4:30pm today whether I am going in for an operation at 8am tomorrow morning?

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Well am I? Because I am prone to impatience but feel this takes the . I have to ring again at half four and they will have hopefully had a decision from management.

Ward I was meant to be going onto had norovirus so was closed and they are umming and aahing about people's ops tomorrow.

DS is auitistic and I had planned to spend the whole weekend preparing him with his photo story thingy entitled 'mummy is going to hospital' but haven't as still don't know. Also if I am going in my mum is meant to be coming to stay and look after DS (and me after) and has taken a week off work and I still don't know whther she should come tonight or not until 4 bloody 30.

Grrrr....

It is shit, but the norovirus must have made things very difficult for them, and even at the best of times they are probably subject to sudden emergencies.

When dd went in for her op, we had to ring the same morning (and still be in for 8).

I know norovirus can't be avoided, there have been a few wards shut because of it, I think I am more irked that I am being givingthe impression that it is more a case of pinning down a manager for a decision than anything else, and as this decision affects a lot of patients you would think they would make one. I was told to ring mon morning, then lunch, then 2:30, then 4:30 for a decision.