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| Thread ID: 150783 | 2022-07-11 07:37:00 | Hospital goes DIY | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1487314 | 2022-07-11 07:37:00 | Last August my wife contracted Shingles which had attached another virus which is called “Ramsay Hunt Syndrome”. Looking at someone with Ramsay Hunt you would swear they had had a Stroke but unlike a Stroke you are expected to recover from Ramsay Hunt albeit in 9 months. However, my wife has suffered a paralysis of the nerves that govern where food goes, so it’s Lungs or Stomach and the lungs aren’t equipped to deal with food, no matter what food. :groan: Therefore, she has to be fed direct into the Stomach via pump and peg. The peg is a device that gets you from outside skin to inside the stomach. Then, as a bonus she somehow caught Septicaemia a few days ago and was very close to death. So that is the background but now for the content. Today she was discharged from hospital and I was given a manual on how to care for her. :) Health care in NZ not the way we want it. 11343 Oh wait, here is how to untangle the IV and Peg line. 11344 Can’t find the #8 Wire, there must be something wrong. :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1487315 | 2022-07-11 07:49:00 | B.M. You will be an expert in no time and will be able to hire yourself out to the medical fraternity. A millionaire in no time. However, it's shame your poor wife has to be the guinea pig for you to get the training. I do feel for her condition and do hope she has a speedy recovery even with your ministrations. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1487316 | 2022-07-11 09:55:00 | Yes, sorry to hear about your wife.All the best for her. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1487317 | 2022-07-12 09:14:00 | I do feel for her condition and do hope she has a speedy recovery even with your ministrations. Wife and I would like to thank you Bryan for your good wishes and concern. I’m still concerned about this “Hospital at Home” system because today I got trapped, and caused considerable anguish, simply because I couldn’t find a Luer so went looking for a Lure in my fishing tackle box. My Wife’s health improved considerably whilst she explained the error of my ways. ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1487318 | 2022-07-12 21:32:00 | Today she was discharged from hospital and I was given a manual on how to care for her. :) To be fair she is probably better off. You can have a district nurse too you know. To help you. Friend vs husband. She had a DN, came initially once a day. As my friend deteriorated (and chose to stay home) she stayed all day, and then stayed overnight too. Husband on the other hand, I wanted to take him home, they were nasty about it, making sarcastic comments about it and gave him various unneeded medications (until I found out and told Dr), didn't change his food after I said he'd eat certain other things they had instead, and let his sugars climb to 27!! Normal for him should have been 8. It aggravated his delirium and they wanted to dose him on Halipiderol. I offered to do his tests/insulin myself, nope, not allowed. (Never mind I had been before he went there) And visitor rules, lucky it was in between the lockdown drama and they let 5 of us in at once. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1487319 | 2022-07-12 23:38:00 | Crisis, what crisis? | Brucem (8688) | ||
| 1487320 | 2022-07-13 00:04:00 | The hospital in chch has been unsatisfactory for years. They may have a good excuse now but in the past I have seen many examples of less than optimum treatment of patients I have taken into the hospital myself, the organisation has been poor ever since middle-management started running the show and doctors were relegated to functionaries in the executive operation of the hospital. All this may be inevitable as systems become very large and increasingly difficult to manage but some of the things I have seen happening are directly related to lack of discipline in the staff and a seeming disinterest in putting themselves out for the best needs of the patients. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1487321 | 2022-07-13 05:13:00 | the organisation has been poor ever since middle-management started running the show and doctors were relegated to functionaries in the executive operation of the hospital. You nailed it in one zqwerty. :thumbs: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1487322 | 2022-07-15 18:54:00 | Feeling very bad to hear about your wife. | perssy10 (17782) | ||
| 1487323 | 2022-07-16 01:33:00 | [QUOTE=zqwerty;1317364]The hospital in chch has been unsatisfactory for years. .... organisation has been poor ever since middle-management started running the show and doctors were relegated to functionaries in the executive operation of the hospital. /QUOTE] My GP works weekends in Taupo hospital. I asked why not local one? And he said much the same....politics there and he - putting it in a short form - does not like the place. Doesn't much like hospitals at all...he worked in one for decades before becoming a GP. Not sure what exactly he does at Taupo. He also works evenings at various resthomes. POor guy, no time off, ever. |
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