To think something isn't adding up here?

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My dad was taken to hospital last night by ambulance after been ill for over a week. He tested negative for covid last week too. I haven't seen him but my mum was telling me how bad he is, how is isn't sleeping, isn't eating has lost weight can barely talk ect. He's a very private man and to be taking to hospital by ambulance would be a big thing for him and he wouldn't allow my mum call one unless he really needed it.
Low and behold today he arrives home from the hospital without telling any of us after getting the bus. He told my mum his tests all came back ok and he just has a bad infection and the hospital let him go. He was not given a prescription which seems odder. He also said they want him to have another covid test but he will have to wait for tomorrow to get that which seems odd for a hospital who have the facilities to test to send him home to await a test. I just can't seem to shake off something doesn't add up. My mum isn't used to been on her own just keeps saying it's great he's home and seems satisfied with what my dad said but I can't help but think it doesn't make sense.
Thank you

He’s clearly had enough and signed himself out. Perhaps he was more scared of the covid than his symptoms.

If he is mentally sound you can’t do anything. It’s only if he’s unable to make decisions for himself that you can do anything. I hope you have a power of attorney for them both. For use when they are older. Old people can be very stubborn.

Your mothers just seeing what she wants to see and sticking her head in the sand about the scary thought that her husband may have something seriously wrong, much better to accept his version.

The only thing I could suggest is that you encourage him to phone his GP, who will have a note of everything on file, in case a prescription is indeed required ‘and may have been overlooked by the hospital, as I can pick it up for you if you want’ type thing.

If he has a ‘bad infection’ he would have antibiotics surely? Do you think he was worried about being there and has discharged himself?
He may have been discharged then said someone was here to pick him up and just gone at got the bus but it does all sound a bit odd. How will he be getting the Covid test tomorrow? Is he saying he has to go back?

Just reread your post, some hospitals do make you test for covid prior to coming. I know someone with a baby who had to get it tested one day before coming back the next for treatment. A baby for gods sakes. They can go downhill really quickly so that wait was surprising. Anyway it could be true but he will have to do the test tomorrow and follow the advice or do as I suggested re gp if he refused to do the hospital stuff as they advised.

Thank you @Elieza that is what I've been thinking. I don't have much experience of hospitals myself only having stayed in one when having dc but my instinct is telling me you don't go from been brought into hospital by ambulance to getting a bus home a few hours later.

@Totallyworthit thank you for the reply he will have to await an appointment and make his way to the test centre and then await results. I'm thinking as he was in a cubicle in a and e and not a ward he got fed up and left.

you don't go from been brought into hospital by ambulance to getting a bus home a few hours later

Thats probably not that uncommon tbh. Being taken by ambulance isn't always an indication of anything serious. I'd agree with pp it sounds like he's discharged himself. A 'bad' infection would surely need some treatment.

Had he said where or when he's supposed to get the covid test.

A&E letters sent to the GP will have did not wait on them if tests were done and the patient left before they could be reviewed. If he was admitted to a ward for observation the discharge summary will have discharged against medical advice on it.

You need him to contact the GP.

If he was my dad, I would call the ward and ask for more details as you are concerned.
I'd ask him for consent first.

• If he was my dad, I would call the ward and ask for more details as you are concerned. I'd ask him for consent first.*

Unfortunately I don't think he'd agree to give it.

Hi OP. I just wanted to say that I wouldn't find it at all surprising if the hospital discharged your Dad very quickly after his arrival at A&E (although it does also seem possible that he decided to just leave).

I've had a similar situation with two elderly, unwell relatives (one since died). One situation is recent (two months ago), and the other was several years ago. The hospital was very keen to get them both out ASAP, and in both cases suggested sending them home in the middle of the night, such was the pressure for beds.

I hope all goes well, and that your Dad is okay. I too would want to ring the hospital to ask for further info, if this was one of my relatives

How did you get on OP? Did you manage to work out what is going on?