My husband was misdiagnosed by our local surgery (telephone diagnosis only - sciatica) and when he stopped walking two months later due to agonising pain we called an ambulance who took him to hospital. The next day after scans he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, his pelvis with many small fractures.
I cannot fault his hospital care, he was there for two months receiving radiotherapy and encourged to try to walk with a zimmer. The only drawback being he could not be visited by our children. He was eventually sent home and we had help from Marie Curie nurses for just over a month and he seemed to thrive. However he rapidly deteriorated, not walking as much, losing strength, having trouble eating and losing his voice. When he could no longer take his pills and kept trying to stand up we could not contact Pallitive care, being a sunday, nor the district nurse, we called out an ambulance the paramedics were amazing, feeding, rehydrating and getting his pain relief into him and when the district nurse finally turned up she obtained a place at Forest Holme where he died a day later.I feel totally let down by the lack of care from my local surgery. He was even told by the physio to ride his bike for half an hour a day before we were subsequently told about his fractures, this must have made them far worse. I know his death from metastatic cancer was inevitable but he was in a great deal of pain for two months before being admitted to hospital. I have only praise for Poole Hospital and Forest Holme.
"My husband's cancer care"
About: Forest Holme Forest Holme Poole BH15 1TS Marie Curie Nursing Service - Care at Home Marie Curie Nursing Service - Care at Home Glasgow G21 3US www.mariecurie.org.uk Poole Hospital / Palliative medicine Poole Hospital Palliative medicine Poole BH15 2JB South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Exeter EX2 7HY
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