"I found myself always cold"

I had a heart attack in October, I waited for many hours in the corridor of the accident and emergency where I was having episodes of angina but didn’t know. 

Eventually moved through to a cubicle , several hours later  thinking I was now going to be seen properly with a doctor as I was now in a cubicle, well know I was now in another queue to see doctor. It was only when I was having a heart attack that I eventually seen a doctor , I could  see them through the gap in the curtain this doctor looking at me  shaking in pain with a heart heart attack,  I remember  thinking are you not going to do something , but know , it wasn’t till my wife went out and shouted is anyone going to help my husband he is having a heart attack.

My wife had been out of cubicle a couple of times to try and get a doctor because I felt the heart attack coming on , I don’t know if this was normal but I would not want to go back to that accident and emergency again if I had another heart attack , sorry to say you were too busy to notice my wife shouts or it wasn’t your job I don’t know , 

I then got moved up to ward think it was 61 stroke ward as they did not have a bed for me in ward 44. The staff were lovely well looked after well I was there for four days then moved to ward 44 mainly because I started getting angina again the same as I was having while waiting to see a doctor in Accident and emergency, I was moved at three in the morning.

I felt very cold in this ward, thought it must be because of the time of day. I asked for more blankets , I woke up a few hours later. Got washed had my breakfast. I seen the doctor constantly now consultant every morning a nice man always had a smile , very  informative , I was told I had to wait for an angiogram at the jubilee.

As the nights went on I found myself always cold, always asking for more blankets. I worked out they must be turning the heating of at about six o’clock , it started getting cold after that time , I haven’t got much else to do sitting there all day. Anyway this night time cold became the norm , I asked my wife to bring up thermal pyjamas and thermal underwear leggings , I couldn’t believe how cold I was getting every night , On the forth night in this word I got woke up with another patient at 1am and couldn’t get back to sleep with the cold , This for me became the last straw.

I got out of bed with all these extra clothes woolly hat I use when  Im out walking along the canal , I Went to the desk were all the staff were sitting with two fleeces on to stay warm they were  doing there paperwork , I said in a annoying way this is a joke I am freezing in that bed with all these clothes  on and still cold it’s not right , I explained if the heating wasn’t on tonight I would not be staying another night , the person put me onto to a person at end of phone who said he would look into it , Back to bed 15 minutes later I started taking off all these extra clothes it was very warm  all of a sudden , Got back to sleep all be a bit too warm now , you can’t make it up , Anyway that day I was moved to jubilee and got out the following day after angiogram and stent , 

I have to say I was looked after well with the staff in ward 61 and ward 44 in fact I would say they are brilliant working in those conditions , nothing was to much trouble apart from heating which was not there fault 

I have been in before with heart attack in 2015 it was nothing like this 

I don’t ever criticise normally to do with nhs but felt it was needed as this was a ward with serious ill patients, heating should be the norm , 

I hope this is taken seriously for those people responsible 

Regards