It didn't.
I turned up was taken it to the ward, gowned up and cannula in hand.
My bed was next to the nurses station.
When I was taken it I was told I was up first.
I sat for half an hour and I could hear them looking for the surgeon. They then rang him. He was at a different hospital covering there.
So they had no surgeon.
They started frantically ringing around asking "what do we do now?" And asking if different department had anyone who had used a scope before 😡
They then decided to find a nurse who had previously done endoscopy.
Would I like that? I said I'd rather go home.
Three of them came into my area and were really pushing me to take this nurse. Promising me it would all be fine.
I agreed and ended up wishing I hadn't.
At the very start of the procedure, she was ramming this thing into my insides.
Despite sedation I was crying and screaming so much due to the pain, 4 people came running into the room
Because she didn't know how to advance the scope properly, they abandoned it. But not before tearing my bum and battering my insides.
I rang my husband and he was already waiting and he took me straight out without waiting. They kept asking if I wanted drinks and a biscuit. Did I fuck! I had wanted not to have my insides rearranged by someone who thought they would practise on me.
I have such bad stomach pain now from where this nurse was ramming the scope and she tore my bum during it so I am now bleeding from my bum.
Awful. So if you turn up and there's no surgeon, leave immediately! Don't let them ring around and find someone because it will be someone who isn't properly trained or on practise of the procedure and it will really hurt.