Originally Posted by
Franky Four Fingers
You're going down a route it doesn't need to be taken down.
My MIL is seriously ill and has been for a year, without going through it again she's been in and out of hospital like a fiddlers elbow, prodded, poked, scanned, tested, with every method available and still nothing. So either as you'd suggest, we all have an unrealistic expectation of her becoming better OR her condition is so complex that not one of her doctors or specialists have seen this condition before.
If she could flick a switch and stop one symptom she has it would be to stop the crippling pain she has in her lower left side- her consultants are all aware of this.
Shes been complaining about this for months- all they could find was hugely increased infection levels which responded well to treatment.
Yesterday she was diagnosed with a perforated bowel, guess where abouts?
Yeh that's right, her lower left hand side- so when they've been bombarding her with antibiotics it's been bringing down the markers- she's released home until the infection levels increase to a level where she's admitted on blue lights again.
Now she has again been dosed with antibiotics and they've told her today that they're happy with her progress because the markers are coming down......well no shit Sherlock!
They think that surgery might not be needed but let's face it all the family know where it's going.
Im sorry but for me it's very simple.......in this instance the NHS have made my MIL worse.
How can a perforated bowel have been missed so many times?
I go back to my original statement and say that shes been patched up and sent home.
I don't think any of the family have ever had a unrealistic expectation of her being fixed overnight but FFS come on.