ENT Visits

I have a number of friends at other hospitals & had relayed the above story to them - who of course were mortally horrified that that would never happen at there hospital....

I was so surprised when I visited my normal ent and she grabbed me by the arm and told me half the story of what had happened to me. We only realised at the end that I hadn't actually told her this story & she had heard it from someone else!!!!

My ENT was in fits as the story was so absurd.... that if she hadn't known it was me - she would have sworn it was made up!

Anyway, with subsequent visits we agreed (but I forgot) that I had to go to the new city ENT.

So after the last ENT visit I ended up at the wrong ENT... if that makes sense. This time that was a bit dangerous for me as I had to wait 2 weeks to get into her and then 3 weeks to get into the city ent. If I had known at the time I should have gone to the city ENT directly.

I did so last week and had a good chat with him. SO I am back on the waiting list for my "favourite hospital" - I think classed as semi urgent.

I mentioned to the city ENT surgeon only about the needle incident, and he said that under no circumstances was I to have that injection (!) and he had not prescribed it (!) and no-one had asked him about it (!).

So much for the honesty of the treating nurses then - we decided one of the ward doctors must have prescribed it without checking first!

A friend of mine said next time let them do it then I can sue them for medical assult!

For this admission, I have been very specific & have noted that I am alergic to this drug. Not so much allergic as can potentially react to it in a very bad way.

I misunderstood things previously about the length of time to stay in hospital. I signed myself out the next day (partially due to the experiences listed above) as I was not very impressed at all. In hind sight that may have been a bad thing as within 3 days or so the mending will come away. I was lucky in that the scabs came away gently - but if they tear I can have very major bleeding - which may be difficult to stop without further procedures....

I know now.

SO I am back to very bad bleeding now (40 minutes - 1hr20) so they are going to put me up the list. THe problem with it is these are very bad bleeds - not little drips but huge gushes which flood a pile of tissues in seconds.

That's why it's got to be looked at urgently...

After the recurrance of the current bleeding, I need to get back into hospital urgently!