Rant about local hospital!

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Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

Sorry to hear such sad news. I hope there`s no suffering and she passes with dignity x

+1. So very sorry to hear this sad news.



Chin up mate. Try to keep smiling. Difficult in the circumstances I know but try to think of a situation when your Nan did something that made you smile. I used this technique when my Mum was dying and still use it now. It sort of takes the edge off the pain a bit.

Ah thats c**p sorry to hear that, doesnt compare, but my Grandma has senial demensure (wrong sp) and the home she is in contacted my Dad today saying they are uping her drugs doseage or giving her something stronger as she is becoming violent My Dad and my Uncle (his brother) have never encoutered this when visting my Grandma and she cant even remember who they are! shes always asleep when they visit her. Seems NHS has lost all respect for patients and their families.

So sorry to read this MBK.

Lost both my Grandmother's whilst in NHS care in Fife and had frustrations on both occasions with standards of care. The hospitals in Fife have always been good with sensitivity though.

It's not all like that, my Dad died in Victoria Hospital in Blackpool, having been moved to an NHS hospital in order to get intensive care treatment following an routine operation that went wrong in a BUPA hospital. It also turned out that the operation was the result of a misdiagnosis by BUPA doctors and was not necessary. Victoria hospital was fantastic with a highly trained nurse by his bedside 24/7, as ITU units usually are.

As hard as it is, especially with your gran who is still relatively young as old folk go, it's not pleasant to be really ill, especially when you know it is terminal and it's never going to get better. When my last grandmother died early this year though I actually felt a little bit of relief because I knew she was no longer suffering. It's really hard to let go of somebody, but I wouldn't have wanted my gran to live in hospital where she was suffering and desperately unhappy for any longer, when I knew she could never go home.