Early in the morning recently, I admitted myself to the Royal Perth Hospital ED section. After explaining my condition which was an infected Perineum abscess, I was examined thoroughly and I notified the staff that I'm highly diabetic with a sugar level of 16.5.
When I also informed the staff that I have not eaten any food since the night before, with a rare allergy of anything cold brings down my immune system.
Anyway ... after careful observation, I was transferred from the ED check ward to the surgical wards ASU. Nurses were pretty helpful straight away.
That afternoon, around 9 hours after I arrived at the hospital, I started to feel very hungry and informed the nurse who stated that I'm on *Fast* due to my surgery going to take place. Okay I accepted it. But again, 3 hours later (early evening by this time) no news from the surgical, I was getting agitated as it's not appropriate for a diabetic patient to fast so many hours which could lead to me having more complications. An hour after this, I was at my peak mindset yet told by the nurse I am on the priority list and will go in soon.
3 hours later the doctors with a team walks in to only comfort me that the operation would take place the next day. What about food? After a lot of anxiety building up, I told the nurse if I don't get food I'm walking out. After that, I was given two lousy sandwiches that were too cold in spite of informing them I'm allergic to cold.
To also add to my misery, a door of the nurses' medical room was near my room kept making an annoying noise when shut after opening. Requested the nurse to do something about it and was told there is nothing they could do about it. Can you imagine ... another patient came to our rescue and gave us earplugs.
I know this is a Public hospital but *hey * this is Australia.
After all this ordeal to be told by a surgical doctor, not in a nice way in my opinion, you are going home, I'm like thank you because in my experience, that's all you hear in public Hospitals.
Now I live alone and have no support. With the anxiety and the dietician giving me a lot of supplement drinks, my bags were so heavy that I requested a support worker to get me a taxi voucher which they declined, point-blank in my opinion, and left. When one of the surgical doctors who visited me for the last time, explained my situation who in minutes provided me with a taxi voucher with, I believe, no regrets. Shocking I think.
"Negligence by doctors"
About: Royal Perth Hospital / Acute Surgical Ward 6G Royal Perth Hospital Acute Surgical Ward 6G Perth 6000
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