My wife has a very painful knee and is waiting on a knee operation. It's so bad now that she's crawling about the place on her hands and knees. Now her hip is painful and our GP advised us to go to A&E to get a hip x-ray.
We went to Causeway A&E. We waited a long time. We were there from 11 to 5 in the end although I know it's like that these days. They took us through around 3.30 or 4 in the end. They really weren't very nice to us and the lady in front of us got on no better either. They were just as unpleasant to her. They questioned why we were there. We're not folk for visiting hospital unless we can't do anything better than that. We felt like we should just go home and give up on the x-ray altogether. But we decided to have the x-ray.
When they did the x-ray the staff member told us it showed nothing other than they already knew and said they'd write to our GP that day to ask them why they'd sent us. They made us feel like we were wasting their time. Mind you they took plenty of time to complain about our GP. My wife came home in tears and said she'll not go to hospital ever again.
So now we're waiting on the knee operation and it could be years. The staff member said it would probably be 5 years or if we went private 15,000 Euro. My wife is in pain and I'm trying to look into getting her a wheelchair. We feel frustrated and don't know what we can do other than just wait. My wife is very upset.
"my wife came home in tears"
About: Causeway Hospital / Accident & Emergency Causeway Hospital Accident & Emergency BT52 1HS
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