As Good As Gold (19/52)
Tiva poses in the buttercups after our traumatic week.
On our walk on Monday Tiva and John were playing . We do not know exactly what happened but either her claw or tooth caught his finger and somehow the very tip of his finger was mangled.
John is blood phobic I had to get him back to the car as he tried not to pass out .
Once we got home i thought it would be fairly simple to get treatment. Sadly the lines of communication failed. We were unable to get through to the NHS help line or our doctor.
i drove to the doctors but they were not prepared to let us in as we had no appointment and Lockdown measures are in place.
They directed us to Southampton General..I dropped john off at the door and went to try and find parking. I got an hysterical call from john who was having a panic attack. The attendants on the door had removed the dressing and of course it was bleeding. they told John he had to go to the Royal South Hants and just left him to cope. I got him back to the car we had another drive, then we had a long walk around the hospital trying to find where the open door was. two hours after the accident had happened we finally got help.
Fortunately i went to the door with him and explained that he was extremly distressed and blood phobic.Although they could not let me in they were extremely good to John taking him to a quiet room and
getting him immediate
treatment. When they took the tissues off that i had put on it in the car apparently blood spurted everywhere..
After treatment he came home , went back two days later and has now had a small op to repair the finger. he has lost a little bit of finger but they are hoping it will now heal.
Our NHS are doing a marvellous job under difficult circumstances but as one of the nurses said to John Communication between Doctors and Hospitals has not worked as well as it should.
We were just unlucky .
I still think our NHS staff are doing a wonderful Job in difficult times.
As Good As Gold (19/52)
Tiva poses in the buttercups after our traumatic week.
On our walk on Monday Tiva and John were playing . We do not know exactly what happened but either her claw or tooth caught his finger and somehow the very tip of his finger was mangled.
John is blood phobic I had to get him back to the car as he tried not to pass out .
Once we got home i thought it would be fairly simple to get treatment. Sadly the lines of communication failed. We were unable to get through to the NHS help line or our doctor.
i drove to the doctors but they were not prepared to let us in as we had no appointment and Lockdown measures are in place.
They directed us to Southampton General..I dropped john off at the door and went to try and find parking. I got an hysterical call from john who was having a panic attack. The attendants on the door had removed the dressing and of course it was bleeding. they told John he had to go to the Royal South Hants and just left him to cope. I got him back to the car we had another drive, then we had a long walk around the hospital trying to find where the open door was. two hours after the accident had happened we finally got help.
Fortunately i went to the door with him and explained that he was extremly distressed and blood phobic.Although they could not let me in they were extremely good to John taking him to a quiet room and
getting him immediate
treatment. When they took the tissues off that i had put on it in the car apparently blood spurted everywhere..
After treatment he came home , went back two days later and has now had a small op to repair the finger. he has lost a little bit of finger but they are hoping it will now heal.
Our NHS are doing a marvellous job under difficult circumstances but as one of the nurses said to John Communication between Doctors and Hospitals has not worked as well as it should.
We were just unlucky .
I still think our NHS staff are doing a wonderful Job in difficult times.