Seemed like chaos, rude Nurse who clearly thought I did not need to be there. Patients shouting, ghastly patients staring at me and one who it seemed decided to masturbate under the blankets while yelling and staring at me. It felt like a madhouse and as a woman I felt very unsafe. Dirty toilets.
Everything said to other patients by nurses delivered at top volume.
Told by afore mentioned Nurse that this ward did not want me, that ward did not want me and Infectious Diseases ward would take me but someone had to be boarded out to give me a bed. As it turned out I was very ill with sepsis, I found this nurse had zero manners was not happy.
That treatment and what followed has made me so traumatised and fearful of Ninewells that it has affected every aspect of my life trying to deal living with metastatic cancer. The thought of being an inpatient in such an unsafe environment ever again is a continuing nightmare. When I eventually was discharged in poor fettle I was waking up screaming and crying in the night.
I thought I was quite a strong person. Ninewells broke me.
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"Admission to A M U"
About: Ninewells Hospital / Acute Medical Unit (AMU) Ninewells Hospital Acute Medical Unit (AMU) DD1 9SY
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