I feel this real hard. I spent a lot of my life living with chronic pain issues, and being rushed into the ED in agony is just so hard. The people that care for you really do care, but they are stretched so thin. Our health sector workers are incredible, and we should be doing anything we possibly can to protect them, so they can care for us. Thinking of you, and I hope things ease off soon.
Wow, such a sad but true story. I’m a nurse…we go home at the end of a shift absolutely exhausted with a sense of failure because we know we have not done enough to care with the time we have available. We wake at all hours of the night remembering things we may have forgotten (like going back to do blood tests) because there is so much going on.
Legit story Emily. I can tautoko this with my own experience. Like every other kid this winter mine fell ill with probably that RSV thing, they didn't test him, but everyone else had it so. We took our then 9mo to After Hours as you do when they quickly become ill and, when they closed for the night, they sent us to ED to continue being observed. The entire triage area was packed with sick kids and their families, with more people lying in corridors and any random area on gurneys, all feeling rotten no doubt as no one goes to ED for fun. We didn't get admitted to a ward but I am told they were full anyway. This was just a normal winter virus. My friend is due to give birth in hospital in December and is very understandably quite worried about what will happen if the rona is rampant then. I am so so upset that we're apparently abandoning elimination. I want to go full fkn Karen on the rona because I know we can't hack it.
I so feel for you being in hospital like that. And I hope you are recovering well at home with plenty of help. I’m in Chch and just before we all went back into lockdown my mum had to go in after she fell off her hospital bed at home (she had brain cancer) we were in ED for 3 hours before seeing a DR, then another 2 before she had an X-ray and ct. she was finally admitted to medical waiting for a ward bed to get pain management control sorted as she’d cracked two bones in her back. The next day while visiting she got charted strong pain meds from palliative care, the dr proceeded to perscribe in pill form when she was having trouble with swallowing so was meant to be liquid. She had to wait another 3hours for her doctor to do it so ended up being in so much pain the occupational health team that was to assess her help needs for at home and get an extra equipment needed sorted couldn’t. She was stuck there for another two days. Our hospitals really wouldn’t cope at all when covid is all over. They can’t deal with the everyday busyness as it is.
I feel this real hard. I spent a lot of my life living with chronic pain issues, and being rushed into the ED in agony is just so hard. The people that care for you really do care, but they are stretched so thin. Our health sector workers are incredible, and we should be doing anything we possibly can to protect them, so they can care for us. Thinking of you, and I hope things ease off soon.
Wow, such a sad but true story. I’m a nurse…we go home at the end of a shift absolutely exhausted with a sense of failure because we know we have not done enough to care with the time we have available. We wake at all hours of the night remembering things we may have forgotten (like going back to do blood tests) because there is so much going on.
Thanks for sharing the realities.
I hope you have a speedy recovery 💖
Legit story Emily. I can tautoko this with my own experience. Like every other kid this winter mine fell ill with probably that RSV thing, they didn't test him, but everyone else had it so. We took our then 9mo to After Hours as you do when they quickly become ill and, when they closed for the night, they sent us to ED to continue being observed. The entire triage area was packed with sick kids and their families, with more people lying in corridors and any random area on gurneys, all feeling rotten no doubt as no one goes to ED for fun. We didn't get admitted to a ward but I am told they were full anyway. This was just a normal winter virus. My friend is due to give birth in hospital in December and is very understandably quite worried about what will happen if the rona is rampant then. I am so so upset that we're apparently abandoning elimination. I want to go full fkn Karen on the rona because I know we can't hack it.
I so feel for you being in hospital like that. And I hope you are recovering well at home with plenty of help. I’m in Chch and just before we all went back into lockdown my mum had to go in after she fell off her hospital bed at home (she had brain cancer) we were in ED for 3 hours before seeing a DR, then another 2 before she had an X-ray and ct. she was finally admitted to medical waiting for a ward bed to get pain management control sorted as she’d cracked two bones in her back. The next day while visiting she got charted strong pain meds from palliative care, the dr proceeded to perscribe in pill form when she was having trouble with swallowing so was meant to be liquid. She had to wait another 3hours for her doctor to do it so ended up being in so much pain the occupational health team that was to assess her help needs for at home and get an extra equipment needed sorted couldn’t. She was stuck there for another two days. Our hospitals really wouldn’t cope at all when covid is all over. They can’t deal with the everyday busyness as it is.
When I didn't see Friday chats I hoped it wasn't a family emergency, bummer it was. Get well soon with your lovely boys supervising.
I’m so sorry you’re unwell Emily, and hope your recovery is speedy. Thank you for this post ❤️
Thank you for sharing. This is really terrifying. I'm so sorry for your pain and glad to hear you're recovering at home. I'll be sharing this post. x