My husband was admitted to Crosshouse hospital from the renal unit with severe breathing problems. After 2 days he was diagnosed with pneumonia and given antibiotics. He was bedridden on oxygen and nebulisers.
He was moved to a general ward a few days later and was sat in a chair that night for the first time. I got a phone call on the next morning to say he was being discharged that night after his dialysis. I picked him up from hospital and told the nurse he was still very breathless and I wasn't happy about him being sent home; the nurse told me she thought the same and that she had phoned the ward and said so but was told the doctor had said he was to be discharged.
I took him home and had to practically carry him from the car into the house where he had to stop in the hallway struggling to breathe for a good few minutes then into the living room still struggling with his breathing.
I am so angry at the way he was treated and his breathing problems were ignored, oh by the way he has severe COPD into the bargain.
"My husband being discharged"
About: Crosshouse Hospital / Respiratory medicine Crosshouse Hospital Respiratory medicine KA2 0BE
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