"Feel let down and upset"

I was taken to A&E over a week ago originally very poorly with kidney infection then got admitted to Urology by my GP due to infection not going /getting worse, high heart rate, fever- tablet antibiotics weren’t working. So anyway after feeling like death for a week and going all the way to HRI after stopping 1 night and having a total of 1 hour of IV antibiotics and 1 lot of fluids I was just discharged again still poorly, in agony and not eating with you guessed it more oral antibiotics!! I don’t feel there was any discussion around other options and when I was told I was going home I mentioned to the nurse in charge that I was concerned and that I’d done this a week ago he just brushed me off and said it would be fine?

I don’t feel anyone listened to my concerns or cared. I repeatedly told several members of staff on different shifts starting as soon as I got a bed (nurses, student nurses, pharmacy) I was without vital meds and upon being discharged I was pretty much told ‘about that, we didn’t have it in stock but you’re going home now anyway’. I was half heartedly offered anti sickness as I was being picked up to go home which made me laugh! I slept about 4 hours overall with pain, feeling sick and when I insisted I needed more was told I could take ibuprofen too oo lucky me! If I could cope at home with paras and ibuprofen I wouldn’t have put myself through this episode of indignity!

Found myself weeping a few times because I can’t believe I was in a hospital and feeling so poorly and in pain, honestly don’t know why I even went in. I kept having the curtains pulled open around my bed, I was only in a vest and shorts as I felt very hot and feverish (disgusting lack of privacy). I just wanted some privacy to rest and was desperately trying to sleep as I felt so poorly and tired but was told I needed to open all curtains to let more lighting in for the woman next to me reading her magazine? I thought this was a ward for poorly people!! not everyone wants to sit on display in their pj’s when they feel like poo and you’re in a ward with strangers. Ridiculous.. ended up going off the ward with my friend. I just feel totally dismissed and not taken seriously. I don’t know whether this is a young person thing maybe?

There was one nurse who kept checking in and trying to chase things up for me as she obviously spotted what was going on and a couple of other staff were lovely and had good intentions.

In all honesty i think I’d sooner get sepsis than come back here. I felt like an inconvenience and believe me I’d rather not be in hospital either but I’d rather be in a few days and get 100% than go home, go back to GP and come back again which is surely more costly and a total pain when you just want to get well and back to normality/work.