Hello Blog. I'm still here with you which means, yes, yet another cancellation. I can't tell you how upset and disappointed I am. I must have done something dreadfully wrong somewhere, somehow, somewhen.
Again it was about 4.30pm before we got the dreaded news but I got hints this morning when the ward manager said it was 'looking grim'. It's understandable that there will be emergencies but surely there are contingencies? And who do I blame? The surgeon because he can only operate on one person at once? The HDU team because they only have the necessary equipment to nurse 4 people at a time? The nurses because they can only cope with a certain amount of patients? The ward managers because they have to juggle patients and beds? The hospitals for specialising in certain areas and then not being able to sustain? The Government for their promises and then imposing targets/fines/penalties which don't benefit anyone? And if I do get the call to go in tomorrow then it's because someone has died so how does that make me feel? God this is so frustrating. I think the government will have to take the blame. They take our money and don't deliver. They're playing politics with patients - it'll never catch on.
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How different things are from when patients used to lie in hospital beds for weeks. Perhaps it, now, is an attempt to run TOO tight a ship economically.
We find ourselves the victims of chance. Someone, somewhere, had a little something happen in their head, like you did. That event just cropped up, out of the blue -- hitting you between the eyes.
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