The NHS - My Experience
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I am currently in hospital and it looks like I will be here for a while so I thought I would give a running update as I'm pretty bored sat here in my bed!
I have been unfortunate enough to spend a fair amount of time in and out of various hospitals during my childhood and teenage years. However it seems that everytime I am back in the care of the NHS my experience is better then the time before, the amount of care I have received since I was brought in a few days ago is incredible.
My memory is a little hazy over the past few days but I think it was Mon or Tue evening I was brought in by ambulance after ringing up myself complaining of terrible chest pains, it turns out I was having a heart attack. Something no one ever wants to experience, let alone at the age of 23.
I have been under constant care since and have undergone several tests and it turns out that due to complications and a pre existing condition I need to be transferred to a hospital in london sometime later today to undergo some open heart surgery. Thats a pretty scary thought for me, I've had a few general anaesthetics before but never had something as serious as heart surgery.
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I have been unfortunate enough to spend a fair amount of time in and out of various hospitals during my childhood and teenage years. However it seems that everytime I am back in the care of the NHS my experience is better then the time before, the amount of care I have received since I was brought in a few days ago is incredible.
My memory is a little hazy over the past few days but I think it was Mon or Tue evening I was brought in by ambulance after ringing up myself complaining of terrible chest pains, it turns out I was having a heart attack. Something no one ever wants to experience, let alone at the age of 23.
I have been under constant care since and have undergone several tests and it turns out that due to complications and a pre existing condition I need to be transferred to a hospital in london sometime later today to undergo some open heart surgery. Thats a pretty scary thought for me, I've had a few general anaesthetics before but never had something as serious as heart surgery.
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Good luck to you, OP, keep us all posted. Little things, big things, write when you feel you want to and we'll read your musings.
Wish i could have done that when i was in, the feeling of isolation was what got to me more than anything so at least you know if you share your experiences on here you'll be read by a large, if questionable cross section of society
Wish i could have done that when i was in, the feeling of isolation was what got to me more than anything so at least you know if you share your experiences on here you'll be read by a large, if questionable cross section of society
Thanks VinceFox :-) not sure what happened to the OP or why this is a duplicate thread.
Try this for the full thread, maybe a mod could close this one
http://mobile.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=...
Try this for the full thread, maybe a mod could close this one
http://mobile.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=...
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