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treborc · Newbie Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 21

Well with me I was at work when I had a massive fall 45ft straight down, they believe I landed on my back. Ambulance arrived two men came down and said I quote Christ they said a bloke had fallen over, we do not have our normal ambulance we have nothing at all, no spinal board, no neck brace and nothing for pain. I later found out one was a porter and the other was a driver, neither were paramedics. After twenty minutes of me coming and going one minute it looked a nice day the next it was red then black then I come around again. I told the ambulance men I had pain in my legs pins and needles in my feet and toes. and a nasty feeling I want to go to the toilet but cannot. They said look mate we are going to lift you it is no good waiting around we are going to take a chance.

they moved me I screamed and they panicked, I was placed into the ambulance and they took me to hospital, the ambulance men took me around the back of the hospital and found a spinal board from another ambulance, placed me onto it and then wheeled me into the hospital.

After an hour the ambulance men and two nurses and two men in dark suits decided I was in fact a drunk who had fallen off the pavement, lucky for me the works doctor had seen me that morning and vouched for me as being sober. any way I was told by the hospital administrator to go home take some pain killers and seek your GP the next day. I was placed into the back of a car and sent 75 miles home. sadly I had a number of fits in the back of the car which set the driver to thinking perhaps he had better take me to another hospital.

While in another hospital a doctor came to see me laying in A&E asking my two work mates what had happened I was rushed to a ward, sent for an MRI scan and told I had a fracture of my spine and damage to my spinal cord. sadly a meeting between the first hospital and the second hospital set off a procedure to protect the hospitals I was again sent home. I suffered with pain black outs and fits for the next few years until a doctor sent me to a spinal injuries unit for tests his words were to prove if your telling the truth or lies.

With three weeks I had five spinal operations and had to have part of my spine removed, then had an implanted morphine pump, and have five disc's removed, then had a shunt placed into my spine with eclectic wires which I am told help control the pain.

My life is in ruins, yet I am looking for work and have for the past three years done voluntary work, I have never forgiven the ambulance crew or the dam nurses who kept saying I was drunk while in hospital, the worse thing about this, I had not had a drink for sixteen years I am still tea total.

But life goes on, I no longer see nurses or doctors as anything then normal people I do not respect anyone within the NHS.

But thats the way I feel. oh and I spent three years stuck in a hospital bed.

admin · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject: The Failures of the NHS

Hi treborc

Sadly, the shortcomings of the NHS are becoming ever more popular, and your story does not surprise me at all.

My father was at hospital last year and was diagnosed with constipation when in reality it was severe gastritis caused my long-term use of NSAIDS. One would have thought, having read his notes, they would have put two and two together.

He is still having further tests, and the long term effects of gastritis means that he cannot have anything acidic. However, they have asked him to have a colonoscopy and sent him through laxatives laced with citric acid. Brainy of them eh?

I think one of the problems with the NHS is it's becoming more and more like a production line rather than a healthcare system. They patch you up and send you on your way without any real investigation. There's no wonder people are misdiagnosed!
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treborc · Newbie Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 21

sadly Labour has now started to close our hospital and its pretty new costing millions.