"My recent enforced stay"

I was recovering from an extended dialysis period mostly done at another metropolitan hospital and after waiting in Perth over a year while doing this for a bed to become available at Geraldton (due to of course lack of resources) at considerable personal financial cost (but that's a whole 'nuther story) I had sudden onset lung infection requiring me to spend several weeks initially in ICU and later in the general renal ward there.

Let me first say that I was actually relatively impressed with the facilities despite the odd shortcomings. What I was not impressed and quite concerned with though was the dangerous, I would almost say seemingly murderous shortage of nursing staff in the ward. Now to be fair I am a bilateral leg amputee who is somewhat on the larger side at about 106kg and this including other injuries have left me with restricted mobility. At any given time I was usually only able to get assistance from two comically small nurses. Unlike other hospitals there were no Orderlies available to assist with patient movement and there were occasions that I was stranded for long periods of time in my own excrement courtesy of potent medications to the point where I was beginning to suffer from burns and pressure injuries because of this.

In all fairness I acknowledge there were patients who were in worse situations than mine but I feel this definitely contributed to an un-necessarily delay in my being discharged from there.

In the three public hospitals I have had extended stays in over recent years I would have to say this one has been by far the most difficult for me and based on my experience I would hold grave fears were I forced to go back in there again.