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my problem is that it would have been my 4th lot of hand surgery and each time the hand is is a plaster cast and then a splint so i have to prepare for that as i live on my own.. like getting lots of food in cleaning the house from top to bottom etc as it's 2 months of not being able to do much, i have had to teach myself to write left handed although i have implants in that hand.. that is why i get stressed..i have to manage on my own and i build myself up for that... anyway i won't be disappointed again as i won't be going..lol

I had a mini op cancelled three times over the last 5 months. Finally got it done this week. Nothing serious but, as you say, you get yourself psyched up for it.

i have been on the list for hand surgery for 2 years and 3 months, and each time i get a date they cancel it or send me home.. i have been so stressed out and ill with all this that i have removed my name from the waiting list as i fear this stress will kill me before my arthritis....

MY OH WENT TO SEE A SPECIALIST ON TUESDAY AND WAS TOLD THEY COULDN'T DO HIS OPERATION WITH LASER AS HOPED BUT ONLY A FULL SURGICAL ONE IS THE OPTION AND MEANS A HOSPITAL STAY,NOTE THAT
WAS TUESDAY,
TODAY HE GETS A LETTER MARKED URGENT,HE HAS HIS PRE OP NEXT FRIDAY
WHICH MEANS ALL BEING WELL HIS OP WILL BE THE FOLLOWING WEEK.

Our hospital is disgraceful and dirty ......and hope I never have to be admitted or they will see the fastest in-outpatient they have seen,

All its fit for a a sticky plaster and weekend drunks and overdosers.......it was once a fine place where people begged to come to.
It saddens me as it was the place I did best part of my nursing training in and was proud to walk its fine modern corridors and great bright wards...years of cut backs have distroyed it to the foundations.

We were told big was better so smaller hospitals were closed, now the new head of the NHS Simon Stevens is advocating a change in policy by calling for a shift away from big centralised hospitals, saying there needs to be new models of care built around smaller local hospitals - I wish they would make their minds up :-S

Where I was brought up, the local hospital, which had three wards, male, female, and children, dealt with things like appendicitis, tonsillitis. minor fractures etc, to name but a few procedures, more serious problems were dealt with at the nearest major general hospital.

The changes over the past 30 years has seen the NHS turned into a Yo-Yo, going up and down or round and round, depending on which political ideology is the flavour of the day - all these changes have cost billions of pounds, and the tinkering by politicians of all persuasions, has in my opinion been one of the main reasons the NHS keeps finding itself in financial difficulties.