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"My head injury"

About: East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust / Emergency ambulance Lincoln County Hospital / Accident and emergency Lincoln County Hospital / Cardiology

(as a service user),

I fell from a ladder when cleaning out the gutters on a bungalow! I sustained a small bleed on the brain. 

When I came home and a few days later I noticed my legs swelling up! I had Oedaema and heart failure! 

Backed To hospital and admitted  to a  Covid ward as I was Covid neutral. Then moved to the Cardiac ward When I Tested negative to check out my pacemaker had not been damaged in the fall from the ladder. The Heart Specialist identified low sodium  ( salt)  and then sent home when sodium  level returned to normal.

Then a few days later again my right arm went numb and I could not Work my fingers. My wife and I and the ambulance men all thought I was having a stroke. Admitted for a third time to hospital.

Use of my arm and hand returned Professor Sharma Told me all 3 visits To hospital were side effects of a small brain injury and that 2 of my tablets We’re full of Potassium which causes low Sodium( salt) and stopped my heart and reflux tablet as a trial for 2 months. Back in 1 month for follow up CT Scan and reassessment of tablets. 

All the staff were amazing ,very  hard working ,never a free minute including emergency service, 999 , and Ambulance Service.  Thank you so much for sorting a difficult case out!!!

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Response from Tracey Duke, Ward Sister, Johnson Ward / CCU, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust 3 years ago
Tracey Duke
Ward Sister, Johnson Ward / CCU,
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Submitted on 06/08/2020 at 15:41
Published on Care Opinion at 15:41


Dear Maggotts

Thank you for your feedback. I am pleased to hear that your experience in hospital was a positive one & I hope that you are making a good recovery.

Regards

Tracey Duke

Ward Sister, Johnson Ward/CSS/CCU

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Response from East Midlands Ambulance Service 3 years ago
Submitted on 23/09/2020 at 17:56
Published on Care Opinion at 17:56


Dear Maggotts,

Thank you for taking the time to share your kind words with me.

I am so pleased to hear you are well on the road to recovery now and I'm pleased that our ambulance crews were able to help you to get the help you needed.

If you are able, we would appreciate you sharing your comments with our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) team, with as much detail as you can (e.g. date, time and location), so that they might identify the crew who cared for you and share your words with them. You may contact them via telephone on 0333 012 4216 or email emas.pals@nhs.net.

Best wishes,


Richard Hunter
Ambulance Operations Manager for Lincolnshire
East Midlands Ambulance Service

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