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Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:04 pm
10 Professionals and not one listened!
by Huegatort » Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:01 pm
On the 3rd of Jan our Son age 37 who has schizophrenia didn't feel well. We phoned the local hospital pharmacy and she advised us to call the out of hours, which we did and we spoke to the Dr. He ask my Son and I a series of questions and advised us to see GP next day which we did; he said I don't know whats wrong go to the dentist and so we did the very next day. He noted our Sons eye and mouth as we did, said his mouth/teeth had no problems. He goes to the Dentist regularly.
The next day I took my Husband to have a colonoscopy and then took our Son into the walk in centre, we saw a nurse and right away she said, " oh you have Bell's Palsy my sister had the same>" We were then sent to see a senior Nurse, said he has Bell's palsy go back to your Dr which we did that very afternoon and he said he hadn't noted our Sons eye and mouth and I made clear it was obvious, he said go home and I'll phone you which we did and ask us to go back in. He then told our Son he had Bell's Palsy and gave him a 10 day course of steroids. We dispensed the prescription immediately and when the course was finished we returned to the Dr who said your condition hasn't gone fully so come back and see me in 4 weeks.
A week after this happened our Son became very ill, he had a severe headache, we got the out of hours Dr here who said our Sons sickness was due to vertigo associated with Bell's Palsy and he gave him an injection and said go to your own Dr in a few days. Not long after the Dr left, our Son was vomiting badly and he couldn't stand up.
Tues after tea our Son looked worse, his vision was blurred, his speech slurred and his right eye and side of his mouth were worse. I phoned the out of hours Dr immediately and explained, she said get an ambulance and we did and two very small ambulance girls came. They took a look at our Son and tried to convince my Husband and I that it was just the Bell's Palsy, one even getting on her phone to google Bell's Palsy. We made clear that the Dr from the hospital had said he had to come into hospital and they tried to talk us out of it. We were adamant that they took him to hospital.
They ask our Son to stand up and as he got to the bedroom door his legs buckled and he hit the floor fast and heavily onto his backside, he ambulance girl saying, " oh you got to the floor fast." Our son then had to shuffle slowly along the landing and then down the stairs. Then as they got our Son in the ambulance she turned to my Husband and said, "he hasn't had a stroke so we are in no hurry so we won't put the blue light on."
On 10 different occasions and each time we saw a medical person I explained my fears that he may have had a stroke but the ambulance girls and the 2 nurses we saw at the hospital were the worse and more blase!
After a CT and MRI scan it revealed that our Son had had a stroke due to a blood clot at the back of his brain!!!!!! I was right all along and not one of those professionals listened!!!!!!! I don't think I need to explain how my Husband and I feel!!!!
by Huegatort » Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:01 pm
On the 3rd of Jan our Son age 37 who has schizophrenia didn't feel well. We phoned the local hospital pharmacy and she advised us to call the out of hours, which we did and we spoke to the Dr. He ask my Son and I a series of questions and advised us to see GP next day which we did; he said I don't know whats wrong go to the dentist and so we did the very next day. He noted our Sons eye and mouth as we did, said his mouth/teeth had no problems. He goes to the Dentist regularly.
The next day I took my Husband to have a colonoscopy and then took our Son into the walk in centre, we saw a nurse and right away she said, " oh you have Bell's Palsy my sister had the same>" We were then sent to see a senior Nurse, said he has Bell's palsy go back to your Dr which we did that very afternoon and he said he hadn't noted our Sons eye and mouth and I made clear it was obvious, he said go home and I'll phone you which we did and ask us to go back in. He then told our Son he had Bell's Palsy and gave him a 10 day course of steroids. We dispensed the prescription immediately and when the course was finished we returned to the Dr who said your condition hasn't gone fully so come back and see me in 4 weeks.
A week after this happened our Son became very ill, he had a severe headache, we got the out of hours Dr here who said our Sons sickness was due to vertigo associated with Bell's Palsy and he gave him an injection and said go to your own Dr in a few days. Not long after the Dr left, our Son was vomiting badly and he couldn't stand up.
Tues after tea our Son looked worse, his vision was blurred, his speech slurred and his right eye and side of his mouth were worse. I phoned the out of hours Dr immediately and explained, she said get an ambulance and we did and two very small ambulance girls came. They took a look at our Son and tried to convince my Husband and I that it was just the Bell's Palsy, one even getting on her phone to google Bell's Palsy. We made clear that the Dr from the hospital had said he had to come into hospital and they tried to talk us out of it. We were adamant that they took him to hospital.
They ask our Son to stand up and as he got to the bedroom door his legs buckled and he hit the floor fast and heavily onto his backside, he ambulance girl saying, " oh you got to the floor fast." Our son then had to shuffle slowly along the landing and then down the stairs. Then as they got our Son in the ambulance she turned to my Husband and said, "he hasn't had a stroke so we are in no hurry so we won't put the blue light on."
On 10 different occasions and each time we saw a medical person I explained my fears that he may have had a stroke but the ambulance girls and the 2 nurses we saw at the hospital were the worse and more blase!
After a CT and MRI scan it revealed that our Son had had a stroke due to a blood clot at the back of his brain!!!!!! I was right all along and not one of those professionals listened!!!!!!! I don't think I need to explain how my Husband and I feel!!!!