got a phone call today from my surgeons secretary saying that she has had to cancel all hip ops for this week and next because of multi trauma patients that have arrived because of a major car crash on the M4. This means that not only have I been put back AGAiN. I probably won't be in for my op now till December. I do not want to be in hospital in December. I find it hard to trust hospital staff as it is without worrying if they had, had a few drinks the night before at a party.
I hate being in hospital over weekends and major holidays because I don't feel the care is good enough so that is another worry. I am in so much pain because I have had to stop some of my pain killers now. Because they have to be stopped at least a week before an op.
Now they have cancelled me I still can't take them again. I don't care how much pain I am in wild horses won't drag me into a hospital too near or over Christmas. So looks like it may be January now.
So sorry to hear this. What rotten luck. And it sounds as if this isn't the first postponement you've had. Could your GP make a bit of a fuss on your behalf? Is there any option of having it done privately but funded by the NHS because of the continuing delay? If you're really worried about having it done in December it might be better to postpone to the New Year. At least you could resort to the painkillers again for a while. But I would think early December would be OK. But I certainly wouldn't want to be in hospital over/or near Christmas because of reduced staffing levels (my husband was and there was one doctor on duty for most of the hospital).
So sorry to hear you have been put on hold once more, I can understand how frustrating that is. But I have always found staff to be professional at all times and I really think if the is the only aspect of December surgery that is worrying you maybe you should reconsider...
I am sad to hear you had your op postponed and clearly this is distressing but pleeeaaase! As a nurse myself i find your comment about worrying staff would have had a drink offensive.
I will put it down to poor humour and the fact that your dissappointed.
So sorry to hear you have been delayed yet again. However as a hospital worker, in the labs, I can assure you that staff on duty do not go to work suffering from the effects of parties. The number of dry Christmases and New Years that I have had in order to provide a microbiological service to patients is too numerous to mention. My colleagues on the wards did/do the same. I feel you have seriously misjudged those of us who work on hospitals
i have to say I am not talking about regular staff sorry if I offended. It wasn't meant to. Every single member of normal hospital staff I have found great for the most part. I have had one or two that were not. I am talking mainly about agency staff. I am posting from my iPad not my PC and missed that bit out sorry.
I have to say in the past I have had some really bad agency staff you get a lot of them at the hospital I go to over holiday times. A lot of them won't even have a conversation with you they make your bed and won't say a word as f you are not there. This is why I don't want to go over Christmas. Other than that I wouldn't get a single visitor for the whole time I was in there because we don't have a car and the busses don't run to the hospital for the whole of chritmas.
pas I have said above I am not talking about regular staff. Agency staff are used a lot over the holidays at my hospital and at weekends I find some of them quite rude and the care recieved not particularly great. I have even had one say that ambulance patients are a pain for them to deal with. I have no choice but to got to my appointments / operations via ambulance till my right hip is fixed. I assure you that i did not intend to cause offence. I just feel that the care given over holiday times is not as good and that was from previous edit experience. I even had my left hip done after Easter because they wanted me to go in over Easter this year and I refused because of past experiences.
I have every sympathy for you. Hope they csn offer you a nee date asap so you can sort out all your difficulties.
And make the ward aware of your anxieties so they can be aware how to support you thru this..afterall your physical and psychological care is paramount to recovery xx
out of all the staf in the last few years I have had look after me after the many ops I have had. I have to say I have only had 2 staff belonging to the hospital cause me concern. With the way I was cared for. I have however had agency staff. Who have been rude. Didn't explain things to me when I asked a question or didn't have time for many of the paitents on the ward it was as if they were just there to do the job and you didn't exist. This was over an Easter holiday a few years ago and it has put me off being in hospital over a holiday ever since. That ward was not a pleasent stay. The atmosphere was not at all nice. So it has put me off going in again over any holiday times.
i have had my GP write to my surgeon. I have even gone to A&E in agony in an ambulance.I phone my surgeons secretary twice per week. I have had my pre op and had the all clear. But it just seams that something else comes along to put a spanner in the works. I have even written to my local health board. I feel I have and am doing all I can but something else comes along to make me wait longer. I can't see myself having the op before maybe April next year at this rate. Which will be a year since having the left one done. There are always more accidents in the winter and once the snow hits ( it hits really bad here in Wales when it does hit )
I have no chance of getting in for my op because all the beds are took up with folk who have slipped and broken something.
It is rotten for you and very upsetting, which has an effect on your wellbeing.
Either get it done in November by getting your GP to make a fuss on your behalf. Or wait until January, which means you could take pain killers for a few more weeks.
Either way, you need to have confidence that there will be a full team of staff to look after you. No-one wants to be stuck in hospital for Christmas unless they are an emergency.
I have my iPad so if I had, had it done and I was in there I would have posted. I have had to deal with a few family issues so took a break from the forum for a few days. My GP has sent a letter. I even got a doctor in A& E to e mail my surgeon because I turned up in agony. He knows I am suffering. I will be calling again on Friday and just keep making a nucance of myself It is all I can do other than just to turn up at one of his clinics but unless I can prove I have an appointment now. I can't even get down there. Because they won't provide transport.
actually when I went for my pre op last week they said I looked I'll. I said you would look ill too f you were in the pain I am in and no one was listening to you. They said you must be anemic. I said there is NO WAY I am anemic. I am just sick of my life and just being left to suffer 24/7. You would be ill if you had spent all summer not being able to walk. To go out or even sit in the garden in the fresh air for over 6 months. These people make me laugh some times they have no idea.
I will ill find out tomorrow. I am going to phone my surgeons secretary and see if I can get in before the end of November. If she says I don't know yet I will just say well if you can't don't bother with December just get me in for January. But even that would depend on the weather. The winters here can be quite brutal and I get snow at least once every year without fail. So either the weather will be so bad they can't come and get me or it will be so bad there again will be no room on the ward for me. Just might have to wait tio see what she says.
HiHailea,I can remember having this conversation with my GP earlier ths year. He said "You are not depressed, you are angry,"
I said, "You'd be angry if you were in this much pain and no-one listened to you."
His reply was, "You seem very keen to be understood."
Talk about stating the """""" obvious!
I did finally get an op in April to ease the pain by taking out some metalwork from a previous broken hip. That op went well but over the summer the pain came back and I have now had a new Total Hip Replacement.
My advice is to keep on at the doctors and make a lot of noise about it. The ones who make a fuss get attended o sooner. I had to learn that the hard way, I'm afraid.
Oh gosh- that is so hard... I was told in May my sugery would be in late July or August- then it was September- then October- then November. I was going crazy and in SO MUCH PAIN. I lucked out and they had a cancelation in early September- on a Monday. I have never really thought about being in the hospital over weekends or holidays- but I understand your concern. UGH. Hang in there!
Sorry to hear that Hailea. As an nhs patient you can ask to be referred to a hospital of your choice. I am in sheffield and was referred to one of the private hospitals but on the nhs. The care has been greatcand I have had both hips done in 3 months. Time to look elsewhere?