So here we are, another year of hot weather and well dreamy days when our lives are in order. My world is not the same as it was before, you know the ever doting son living with mixed feelings of grief and enormous guilt over the care home saga, well EMI placement and ensuing pandemic that no one saw coming and then a double whammy guilt trip over care home restrictions and even more guilt over what now have been unveiled as not exactly what we were led to believe dished down by politicians with no understanding of the impact their decision making had. Before all of that was the fight to get mum help and feelings of despair, tampered by services paid for by the taxpayer that just can't seem to deliver. In all of that we are still here battling an ever losing fight with Alzheimer's and the feeling I get is that no one actually cares or could give a flying toss from our health and social care system.
Mum fell yesterday and has an abnormal swelling on her leg, what has really pressed the wrong buttons with me is that mums CH nurse doing the right thing referred to her to the urgent care team (rather than call an ambulance) who by telephone triage and photo diagnosed cellulitis -SERIOUSLY? She fell and has an abnormal swelling post fall -would anyone like to try and come up with a better idea of what might be wrong, I bet members of TP are more likely to get it right. Besides having an explosive fit I have told the CH nurse that given they were so late (the urgent care team) in coming out to see mum not to worry about getting the antibiotics for an apparent rapid onset of cellulitis which by the urgent care team is more likely than an undisplaced fracture post fall or ruptured bakers cyst or haematoma. Clearly these days cellulitis is not hot touch, only swells at the top of the lower limb, is generally just not in keeping with cellulitis even though apparently it is.
This is the state of healthcare today, and after 35 years in it I have to say it seems no one seems to know what the history tells in terms of the most LIKELY diagnosis and frankly I give up. It is just not good enough and in my view the pay rise should not have been given at all -there are healthcare professionals out there getting good money for bad practice -come Monday I will be looking into this.
Mum fell yesterday and has an abnormal swelling on her leg, what has really pressed the wrong buttons with me is that mums CH nurse doing the right thing referred to her to the urgent care team (rather than call an ambulance) who by telephone triage and photo diagnosed cellulitis -SERIOUSLY? She fell and has an abnormal swelling post fall -would anyone like to try and come up with a better idea of what might be wrong, I bet members of TP are more likely to get it right. Besides having an explosive fit I have told the CH nurse that given they were so late (the urgent care team) in coming out to see mum not to worry about getting the antibiotics for an apparent rapid onset of cellulitis which by the urgent care team is more likely than an undisplaced fracture post fall or ruptured bakers cyst or haematoma. Clearly these days cellulitis is not hot touch, only swells at the top of the lower limb, is generally just not in keeping with cellulitis even though apparently it is.
This is the state of healthcare today, and after 35 years in it I have to say it seems no one seems to know what the history tells in terms of the most LIKELY diagnosis and frankly I give up. It is just not good enough and in my view the pay rise should not have been given at all -there are healthcare professionals out there getting good money for bad practice -come Monday I will be looking into this.
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