Sunday, 2 November 2008

Perennial problem

CICC’s blind adherence to procedure above patient care means Jo is still being taken up and transferred to the bed to use a bedpan. This is at a time when using the rotunda would be far more beneficial to her progress. Indeed placing her on a bedpan is actually retrograde, fostering dependence when independence is supposed to be their ethos. This is the perennial problem with the NHS, it is designed for the benefit of the people who work there, not for the benefit of the patient.

Posted by Unknown at 15:25

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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.