Inchy wrote:Victims of the tories running the NHS to the ground
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Well my view of the NHS has been coloured and not for the better.
My wonderful step father woke up a couple of years ago with slurred speach, two years before he had a stoke and was treated wonderfully at Bury hospital. So my mother took him to Bury A and E. the doctor examined him putting him in severe pain, gave him morphine and then a couple of hours later discharged him. As my mum wheeled him out to the car in a wheel chair ( he walked in ) a nurse followed my mum and told her to bring him back after 2:30 when that doctor had gone off shift.
My mum chose to talk to Blackburn A and E the day after, they said he had a post viral syndrome.
A few days later I went round and was shocked at his condition.
I told my mum and Al to set up a scene the day after where he had fallen and could not get up, call an ambulance and hopefully get the paramedics to get some action taken, I have lots of faith in the paramedics.
They took him to hospital and said he needed a cranial exam.
The young doctor was nearly crying my mum said when he cam back as Al had multiple brain tumours.
They did a full body CT the day after and only his right kidney was clear of Cancer.
He came home the day after.
Two days later he was paralysed and bed ridden.
A days later when I asked the Macmillan nurse how long he might last, she said she had not seen anyone alive with that amount of cancer.
He past away 6 days later and we had to pay for private care at home.
The NHS can be great.
At times it can absolutely crap. My mother would not make a complaint due to the fact it would have made no difference to Al. I wanted to as it might help someone who could survive.