Our hospital system

[MyGSXF:Me]

Here's hoping your son will be up & outta there asap Mom!! Sounds like he is in the right place though & has been very well looked after!! Good to hear of a positive outcome from our health system.. for a change!!

Jen

[Paul in NZ]

One other thing....

Right now - the 'system' is in full swing and there will be people offering advice and info all over the place...

Later on, when you are at home you are not going to have that help - In fact - because this is a chronic, total system type condition it complicates everything in your life and I mean EVERTHING!!!

Use this time to learn everything you can because it's going to be up to the two of you to be your own specialists!!! In this case the quality of his future life utterly depends on him knowing whats happening and what to do about it.

USE THIS TIME!!!!

Cheers

[Mom]

Bit of an update for you...my boy has been discharged from hospital ( now that's scarey! for me), but has an appoinment tomorrow morning to the clinic that deals with diabeties so his ongoing education and support is in place and much appreciated by this Mom! Again I would like to say how wonderful our health system is when something like this comes along. Thank you to all of you for you kind words and support.........this Mom really needed it!!!!!!!

[MyGSXF:Me]

Bit of an update for you...my boy has been discharged from hospital ( now that's scarey! for me), but has an appoinment tomorrow morning to the clinic that deals with diabeties so his ongoing education and support is in place and much appreciated by this Mom! Again I would like to say how wonderful our health system is when something like this comes along. Thank you to all of you for you kind words and support.........this Mom really needed it!!!!!!!

Sounds like all is progressing nicely Mom!!! most excellent!! hope tomorrow follows the positive trent thus far!!!

All the best to you all!!!!

Jen

ps: now pour yaself a drink, put ya feet up & relax.. ok!!!!

[Mom]

Sounds like all is progressing nicely Mom!!! most excellent!! hope tomorrow follows the positive trent thus far!!!

All the best to you all!!!!

Jen

ps: now pour yaself a drink, put ya feet up & relax.. ok!!!!

LOL hey Jen....did I mention he has just left home and lives in a shitty apartment in the central city, with f$&k all facilities...........LOL....yes a wine is in order for sure......he is fine!!!!

[chanceyy]

my mum ended up in hamilton hospital last yr .. well she was telling me on the way home the treatment she recieved .. just as well she did not tell me when I went to pick her up .. or there would have been more than a disturbance


My mother is quite elderly .. is not on any meds (great for someone in their late 70's) but they suspected a blocked bowel that would not clear, after spending several days in a rest home ( to see if they could clear it) she was admitted to hamilton hospital (certain that an operation was on the cards) so I left work started the 5 hour trip to hamihole.

Half way up there my sis in law called to say that they were sending her home for the weekend she had to go back in on sunday for a procedure
as I was well on my way up there I said I would pick her up

arrived they were not sure where they had put her so just wander around til you find her .. she was telling me on the way home that there were no cubicles free so they completed her rectal exam in the hallway without a screen around her, given the number of ppl in the hallways with no privacy when i went to get her ..this i believe

I thought this was especially disgusting & at least a privacy screen could have been put around a bed if patients had to be examed in the hallways

the experience has only made my mother more determined that if she is sick she will not be going to any hospital

[MyGSXF:Me]

LOL hey Jen....did I mention he has just left home and lives in a shitty apartment in the central city, with f$&k all facilities..

in that case.. paniiiiiccc....

KIDDING!!!

LOL....yes a wine is in order for sure......he is fine!!!!

have several!!!

[Paul in NZ]

LOL hey Jen....did I mention he has just left home and lives in a shitty apartment in the central city, with f$&k all facilities...........LOL....yes a wine is in order for sure......he is fine!!!!

If he needs to ask about guy stuff - you know - old bikes beer and shit get him to contact me or Riffer - we will scare the bugger straight!

Seriously!

Paul N

[ynot slow]

she was telling me on the way home that there were no cubicles free so they completed her rectal exam in the hallway without a screen around her, given the number of ppl in the hallways with no privacy when i went to get her ..this i believe

that is disgusting,no excuse at all,my wife had similar happening in a hospital,she was undergoing a bone marrow biopsy,instead of taking her to surgery they did it in the room she was in also with a couple of ladies in there beds,not most sterile area.
also had a friend who had an op for lump in groin,they never gave him chemo as it was cancerous and after about 3 yrs underwent an operation,surgeon opened him up and couldn't help him,he went through radiation but died about 3 months later and was 29.