"I felt like I was begging for pain relief"

I had an infection so went to my GP and was given antibiotics, the next day - a Tuesday - it was even worse and I was in severe pain so I went back to the GP and was advised to attend Surgical Assessment at RAH Paisley. That was a great experience, I was seen quickly by lovely staff, I was assessed and received extreme pain relief before being moved into Surgical Receiving. That too was a good experience. The nurses were great.

I went down to surgery that day. The next day I was informed it didn’t work and that I needed a CT scan. I got that on the Wednesday. I was then moved to ward 24. This is when my care diminished.

I had to change my own pads and dressings. I felt like I was begging for pain relief. I should have been getting morphine  every 2 hours . I would ask say at 12 and at 12:45 I was still waiting, while being in severe pain. The lights for the ward were still blaring at 1am, and when I did try to get to sleep the nursing assistant decided this was a good time to strip the beds .

Another patient shouted every 2 mins but seemed to get the most attention off of all of the staff. I had no sleep in 36hrs apart from after my surgery. I couldn’t wait to get home on the Friday but that too has left me in limbo. I have a gaping hole where my surgery was which I can only describe as a fish mouth. I’m now having to wait to see what my GP thinks but surely this isn’t right.