"26 And A Half Hours In A&E"

On arrival at 11am hand over was made and i was moved to a corridor in a long queue but happy i was in safe hands and within 2-3 hours i was moved to another part of a&e. At around 4pm i had a chat to a junior doctor who was very surprised to see i hadn't had a cannula fitted so this was taken care of but didn't fill me with confidence. At around 6pm i finally had a scan on my brain and blood was taken. On returning from the scan i was moved to a cubicle and left unattended until 9.45pm. Nobody checked on me, nobody offered me a drink of water and nobody offered me anything to eat. I struggled out of my stretcher and hobbled to the reception desk and almost begged for a sandwich like Oliver Twist i thought. I'd been in the hospital for 10 hours without any food! Once I'd eaten it was time to struggle back into the stretcher and be left unattended again until 6am. Whilst I lay there unable to sleep, the a&e night staff continued their careless attitude, laughing and joking, on their phones and arguing with disgruntled patients. When the daytime staff took over at 6am you'd have thought it was a completely different hospital! Caring nurses did the rounds checking on patients and i was offered painkillers, which is another thing the night staff neglected, food and water. I felt like I was being looked after again! Nearing discharge time i was still in A&E, i never got to a ward, and was checked over by a senior consultant who was very brash, very condescending and rude. The lovely nurses rallied around attending to everyone and then a really decent physio chap checked me over and made sure i was mobile enough to leave and very kindly got me a walking stick. I was discharged at 1.30pm.