"A bad experience of care for my baby in Aberdeen"

My child was struck with a serious illness as a 14 month old baby. He had to stay in hospital for months. Over this period of time he contracted an illness in hospital which he had to remain in isolation.

There were often times i would go up and he would be screaming and be just left to scream, nurses would not see me entering his isolated room and they would come in while i was there and say 'Oh, how long have you been here for?' I would always think the same: 'long enough.'

When i would turn up his toys would always have been taken away and he looked like he'd been sitting bored. It came to the point i could not leave his side for a minute. There was always babies left screaming most of the time. i would go over and speak to them for 5 minutes and that's all they wanted, a toy and a little attention!

A nurse also left my child's cot side down which resulted in him falling out. I asked to be moved hospital but this did not happen. After his operations if i knew something was wrong and he needed another operation i was not believed. I used to show them photos of the differences but still i would never be believed, and they would wait and then have to rush him back through to surgery when the signs became clearly visible to them.

He went through more than just this which was all bad, and as i have nurses as family they have told me to get private health insurance as this supposedly does make a massive difference to the care and attention you receive, even though she agreed it should not!

He is now a very quiet, nervous, even scared little boy and hates noise. Is this down to the treatment he experianced there as a baby? None of his sibblings are like this they are all loud, outgoing and confident.