Well we have had a medical adventure from the patient side, Daughter working in a restaurant slipped carrying plates fell and cut her hand blood spurting everywhere, chaos in the kitchen, hauled off by ambulance to local A&E I was rung went down to pick her up. Doctor says he thinks there is nerve damage she will have to go to Sydney hospital to get it repaired. We came home and took her to the hand clinic next day, Calmly the nurse taking dressing down in the clinic, then blood everywhere spurting out of her hand like a horror movie, maybe 500mls before they coud get it stopped. I was amazed, she told me it had bleed a lot but this was so dangerous I couldn't believe they had sent her home like that. Operation in the afternoon, she had a cut along the main artery where it branched in two, that's why the bleeding wouldn't stop, normally the artery would contract stopping the bleeding. She also 1/2 severed a nerve which they repaired. I hoped she'd come home that night but she wasnt well enough and they wanted her to stay for obs and IV antibiotics. It was interesting to see another hospital in the group. I was quite envious all their beds were electric, ours are operated by winding up and down. Even the mattresses are thicker and they had so much new equipment and staff. And their TVs are free our patients have to pay for them. Still rent is cheaper here. They were very good through I wish they wouldnt load drug on drug she felt really sick from them all. Now having just panadol and seems enough. Despite the polypharmacy they presented us with!
Left at 8pm to drive home and back the next day to pick her up, a taste of what country people go thru to get treatment. We are only a short way but the traffic is awful esp for Christmas. It is a very pretty hospital I worked there a long time ago a horrific 6 months in the melanoma ward. I think that building is pulled down and the unit moved to another hospital. There is lovely restaurant in the middle of the place but I'm glad they kept it as a hospital. I think things should keep their function if possible, these empty preservations where the building looses its relationship to it original function, or any function other than endless coffee shops are boring.
Big cities are funny places totally stressy and totally interesting my mother always said she could just sit and watch people esp in the city they were fascinating. I am so tired from worrying. None of my children have had an anaesthetic all the time she was in theatre I was trying not to panic. We take these things as so everyday but they dangerous stuff. Its good sometimes to feel things from the other side. I always think you should look after people like they were you family except for the panic