my mum was on D1 Blackburn hospital. I am horrified the treatment my mum received whilst on the ward. she was a type 1 diabetic insulin dependent. staff were giving mum her insulin after she eat which would means her sugars would drop overnight and she would have a hypo. they stopped one of her tablets which helped with her kidneys my mum asked a nurse to help her get out of the bed and into the chair as her legs all swelled up and she couldn't keep balanced not just that my mum was registered blind.
staff kept saying my mum was dehydrated even tho they were pumping fluids into her like there was no tomorrow plus my mum was drinking cups of tea and 1-2 jugs of water a day.
my mum ended up turning yellow. she was not the same person when she was in there. the staff kept saying that my mum's sugars where apparently back to normal and so was her potassium count and the only problem with my mum was the swelling to her legs and the infection that my mum ended up with. my mum had a drip in for the fluid. the pipe was that short when she turned over during the night, it ended up ripping out and my mum ended up bleeding so much and no apology is going to bring my mum back, as she passed away.
"My mum's treatment"
About: Royal Blackburn Hospital / General medicine Royal Blackburn Hospital General medicine BB2 3HH
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