"Care Suspended in Time on Ward F7!"

I attended the hospital on Thursday 6 July for a Gastroenterology appointment at 2:20pm

The doctor in this clinic was superb. The doctor however recognised that I had another illness unrelated to what I was seeing them for but felt that it was serious enough to warrant sending me to A&E,I had planned to go to my GP.

However, I went to A& E around 3pm and once more I received excellent attention from the doctor and nurses there. I was next transferred to ward F7 around 5 pm for further treatment. I had severe upper back, neck and arm pain, chest pains and a swollen left arm. I am also an insulin dependent diabetic.

I remained on a bed in ward F7 in agony from around 5 until 10 pm, without ever seeing a doctor.

When I finally decided that I was going to go home where at least I could take my insulin and other strong pain killers until I could see my GP and

I asked to have the cannula removed from my hand so that I could leave, only then did a doctor come to speak with me with a promise of giving me an x-ray, some insulin along with other medications which I take.

The doctor then had to consult with their managers as to whether I would be sent home or kept in hospital. The doctor then left me and I waited until past 10:30 and no action resulted. No insulin, no medication came, no information either.

In absolutely agony I stumbled out of the ward F7 supported by my husband having had no treatment and was exiting the ward with the cannula still in my arm, when a nurse offered to remove it while I was in the corridor; I was grateful for this and I subsequently left the hospital the same way I had arrived, I agony and pain and untreated!

This is now 4:22 in the morning of Friday the 7 July that I am writing this since my intense pain and agony has caused me sleep deprivation, alongside the fact that I had had a spell of vomiting which could mean that I have picked up a 'bug' on that ward.

Can I attribute this level of non-treatment to government policy, NHS cutbacks, overworked staff, lack of sufficient doctors or this time plain and simple disorganization. Which shall I pick? Or is it a case of all of the above? Whatever the answer, I am still undiagnosed, untreated, uncared about with undermined health!

This time thanks for nothing!

Yours,

In pain and agony!