"Post-operative treatment"

I recently went in for an operation in the morning and came out at just before midday. I walked around for a couple of hours in the afternoon, went to the toilet and walked around some more. I was in bed by 10:00pm.

At about 12:00am the nurse came in and said they would see me in the morning to change my dressing. A bit after that, another nurse came in and introduced themselves. The nurse said something about that I had to do more moving around. Half asleep, I asked what was the problem? I cleared my throat/coughed and the nurse then told me I had to move to another ward. I was taken to another ward that had restricted access. I asked a nurse in that ward, what was going on and they said I had to have a blood test for COVID-19.

I had an operation that morning, supposed to be in recovery, I was still getting over the anaesthetic. Nobody listened to me. I asked if I could move back to where I was in the other ward and was told I couldn’t until results came back.

The next day, the doctor that operated found me and checked me out from the operation. I asked him why I was moved to this ward so they checked my lungs and chest and said I could go and to come back in a week for my follow-up appointment for the operation.

I asked if I could ring my child to pick me up and the nurse said I had to stay a little longer. I felt like I was treated like a prisoner. The results came back and I was all clear. In my opinion. they wouldn’t listen to me. They operated on me the morning before, so I believe they would have known I was ok.

The nurse was nice who discharged me and so were the girls who looked after me through the day of my operation, never had dramas with them. I just thought – this isn’t like Box Hill. I have never had any trouble, I’ve been here a few times and they were really good.