Comments on: Super-hospital, pah http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/2009/07/super-hospital-pah/ The aimless rants of someone who should probably know better Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:17:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fiona http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/2009/07/super-hospital-pah/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Fiona Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:49:18 +0000 http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/?p=109#comment-183 No, they won't think you snobby, in fact I'd go so far as to say they'd think you very sensible indeed. My experience could have been much worse and when they finally sorted out my diagnosis I was looked after very well indeed. At the moment QA seems to be in a state of confusion and unfortunately this is affecting the care that women in so-called "normal" labour received. My friend Mrs B has now had her baby but not without very poor treatment from QA. I will write about this at some point but at the moment I'm still far too angry. Suffice it to say they allowed her to endure over 60 hours of labour before intervening. But I don't want to scare you, I'm sure they're fine with straightforward labour, the problems they have at the moment seem to stem from under-staffing and "teething problems". Hopefully by the time mini-you comes along they'll have ironed them out and will be back to a well-oiled machine. Good luck! No, they won’t think you snobby, in fact I’d go so far as to say they’d think you very sensible indeed. My experience could have been much worse and when they finally sorted out my diagnosis I was looked after very well indeed. At the moment QA seems to be in a state of confusion and unfortunately this is affecting the care that women in so-called “normal” labour received. My friend Mrs B has now had her baby but not without very poor treatment from QA. I will write about this at some point but at the moment I’m still far too angry. Suffice it to say they allowed her to endure over 60 hours of labour before intervening. But I don’t want to scare you, I’m sure they’re fine with straightforward labour, the problems they have at the moment seem to stem from under-staffing and “teething problems”. Hopefully by the time mini-you comes along they’ll have ironed them out and will be back to a well-oiled machine. Good luck!

]]> By: Dr. Mikey (no, not a medical doctor) http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/2009/07/super-hospital-pah/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Dr. Mikey (no, not a medical doctor) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:39:51 +0000 http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/?p=109#comment-182 Well I don't know how we came across your web page Fiona but we read it agog and aghast. We're due in September. Will people think us snobby if we go to St. Richards in Chichester instead? My Pig and the little piglet inside visited last weekend - its an older building but was spotless and there was a reasurring atmosphere of good organisation BUT its a building site - they are reorganising the maternity unit too!! Oh Hell! Only one pregnant teen outside though. I won't tell you about how QA lost a fax from our doctor asking them for an urgent scan, how we get a different story from them about how to claim the HIP grant every time we call, or how difficult it is to see the midwife when she only comes to Southsea once every two weeks and gets booked up immediately... Well I don’t know how we came across your web page Fiona but we read it agog and aghast. We’re due in September. Will people think us snobby if we go to St. Richards in Chichester instead? My Pig and the little piglet inside visited last weekend – its an older building but was spotless and there was a reasurring atmosphere of good organisation BUT its a building site – they are reorganising the maternity unit too!! Oh Hell! Only one pregnant teen outside though.
I won’t tell you about how QA lost a fax from our doctor asking them for an urgent scan, how we get a different story from them about how to claim the HIP grant every time we call, or how difficult it is to see the midwife when she only comes to Southsea once every two weeks and gets booked up immediately…

]]> By: Alexia http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/2009/07/super-hospital-pah/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Alexia Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:08:18 +0000 http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/?p=109#comment-169 God you brought back some horrible memories of last year. I ended up in QA after my gallbladder decided to explode half way down the Nile last year. I was taken from a lovely, clean hospital in Aswan back to QA and bloody hell did I get a shock. I was left in a corridor for 6 hours, doubled up in pain with no possibility of even a glass of water. They then spent 40 minutes trying to get a canula into my collapsed veins (18 attempts - one in the back of my wrist which nearly landed the resident with a punched nose). Long story short, my personal possessions are littered between the 12 wards I was moved between during my first night. This was before I was given enough painkillers to shut me up while the nurses bitched about how busy they were over my drugged carcass while I lay in state between them (a state!). Being allergic to tramadol was also another discovery they made when I had to have my stomach pumped at 4am, just before some idiot tried to give it to me again at 9am. I was then left in a corridor for another 3 hours. I remember rainbow coloured medical crocks wandering past me while I conversed with hughie onto my slippers until a lovely angel visiting her daughter landed in front of me with a bucket and held my hand. I was sent home still with the offending gallbladder still in situ and a bag of tramadol 2 hours later, having been told I was booked into St Mary's the next week. The next week I was in a well run, clean hospital with staff who were professional. A month or so ago they shut it down. (They tell me a gall-ballder attack only approaches childbirth. I will be sterilized forthwith.) God you brought back some horrible memories of last year. I ended up in QA after my gallbladder decided to explode half way down the Nile last year.
I was taken from a lovely, clean hospital in Aswan back to QA and bloody hell did I get a shock. I was left in a corridor for 6 hours, doubled up in pain with no possibility of even a glass of water. They then spent 40 minutes trying to get a canula into my collapsed veins (18 attempts – one in the back of my wrist which nearly landed the resident with a punched nose).
Long story short, my personal possessions are littered between the 12 wards I was moved between during my first night. This was before I was given enough painkillers to shut me up while the nurses bitched about how busy they were over my drugged carcass while I lay in state between them (a state!).
Being allergic to tramadol was also another discovery they made when I had to have my stomach pumped at 4am, just before some idiot tried to give it to me again at 9am. I was then left in a corridor for another 3 hours. I remember rainbow coloured medical crocks wandering past me while I conversed with hughie onto my slippers until a lovely angel visiting her daughter landed in front of me with a bucket and held my hand.
I was sent home still with the offending gallbladder still in situ and a bag of tramadol 2 hours later, having been told I was booked into St Mary’s the next week. The next week I was in a well run, clean hospital with staff who were professional. A month or so ago they shut it down.
(They tell me a gall-ballder attack only approaches childbirth. I will be sterilized forthwith.)

]]> By: Miss Woolley http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/2009/07/super-hospital-pah/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Miss Woolley Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:49:27 +0000 http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/?p=109#comment-145 Nope. Sorry. You've put me off. Again. You should be prescribed to teenage girls as a contraceptive. There'd probably be less smoking, pregnant chavs as a result. Nope. Sorry. You’ve put me off. Again. You should be prescribed to teenage girls as a contraceptive. There’d probably be less smoking, pregnant chavs as a result.

]]> By: Mrs B http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/2009/07/super-hospital-pah/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Mrs B Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:37:22 +0000 http://www.squidpigeons.co.uk/?p=109#comment-143 I felt for you at the time, two weeks stuck in the 60's built battleship grey splendour of the old hospital with little to see or do plus the prospect of major surgery I did not envy you at all, can't believe it's ben nearnly a year either ?! Being the eternal pessamist, like so many things in life I believe the new hospital to be all shiny and dazzling on the outside and severely lacking in substance on the inside...my confidence has been severely knocked by this morning's ill treatment by so called "care profesionals" but as you say there are some true vocasionalists in the profession who really DO care , they should help me retain my faith in humankind. I will however be camping outside the hospital on a very new and shiny piece of turf by the main entrance as our helicoptor is in for repairs and the Eastern Road traffic may result in my delivery being published in one of those weekly Chat managazines. I felt for you at the time, two weeks stuck in the 60’s built battleship grey splendour of the old hospital with little to see or do plus the prospect of major surgery I did not envy you at all, can’t believe it’s ben nearnly a year either ?!

Being the eternal pessamist, like so many things in life I believe the new hospital to be all shiny and dazzling on the outside and severely lacking in substance on the inside…my confidence has been severely knocked by this morning’s ill treatment by so called “care profesionals” but as you say there are some true vocasionalists in the profession who really DO care , they should help me retain my faith in humankind.
I will however be camping outside the hospital on a very new and shiny piece of turf by the main entrance as our helicoptor is in for repairs and the Eastern Road traffic may result in my delivery being published in one of those weekly Chat managazines.

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