My 17 year old daughter was admitted to Boston Pilgrim Hospital with severe abdominal pain.
She was sent up to a hip and joint replacement ward as there were no other beds available, so was surrounded by very elderly patients. She was in severe pain when she arrived and I requested pain killers for her but she was unable to be given them as the drug records had not been sent from A& E. After about an hour, she was given 2 Tramadol tablets by a nurse. 20 minutes later another nurse attempted to give her 2 more Tramadol tablets - if I had not been there to point out she had already had the tablets, she would have been given the double dose - the first nurse had not recorded that she had given her tablets.
Later she was moved to another ward and her drip was turned off while she was being moved - they forgot to turn it back on and as she was nil by mouth, she went about 4 hours with no fluids and was crying with thirst when I arrived (she had a very high temperature and was vomiting a lot).
They also forgot to tell the new ward that she was booked in for a scan, so she missed that.
She was unable to wash and change her nightie herself because of her drip but no one ever brought her a bowl of water to wash with, helped change her nightie or helped her shower - I had to do this when I visited.
To add insult to injury, I told a doctor that she had just thrown up her medication and a nurse then stormed in and told her off for throwing her drugs away. The doctor was not British and had not understood what I said.
I will never let my daughter be admitted to that hospital again.
"Upset by my daughter's care"
About: Pilgrim Hospital / General surgery Pilgrim Hospital General surgery PE21 9QS
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