My 10 year old daughter had an operation at Blackburn Royal on Tues morning;she went to theatre at 9;30,was back on the ward by 10;50 after a full anaesthetic and an epidural.she has both legs in casts from the knees down and was hugely brave.The nursing staff and consultants were brilliant;so what is my whinge?
Well;we were discharged from the hospital at 4pm WITHOUT a wheelchair or crutches!
We had to find a wheelchair ourselves from a list given to us by a very helpful nurse (cheers Andy CSU ward 11).It took 15 phone calls before we tracked one down,on loan from the Red Cross which we then had to collect from Darwen and pay a donation for.
My daughter is an average 10 year old;how on earth was she supposed to get about without a wheelchair;yet even the consultant could not get us one;"they are like gold dust" he said. Had it not been for a friend collecting the chair and the list of possibles from BRI we would have been housebound for a possible 6 weeks!
This situation just beggars belief.......grrrr
