"Visit to Accident and Emergency"

My son broke his shoulder. We came here at 8:20pm. He was triaged and X-rayed at approx 9:30/10pm. He was able to provide an x-ray from previous clinic showing the broken humerus.

We were not told anything further. We are still here at 7am with no news about what will happen. He has had his blood pressure taken at 6am. 

We will soon be here 12 hours, he is in pain and extremely uncomfortable.

All we wanted was some direction or update, we know it’s not an emergency but tell us that we’ll not be seen until day staff come in at 8am if that’s the case, don’t leave us in a waiting room with no water (vending machines doesn’t work) and other patients who are making us all extremely nervous and frightened -noted that police were patrolling on a regular basis.

I asked 2 nurses at 2am and 5pm if they could tell me what might happen. They both said they’d get back to me and didn’t.