[migraine] swings, roundabouts

[kaberett]

On the downside: I spent something like 8 hours today at A&E following checking in with 111 this morning!

On the upside: A came with me; there was actual effective treatment (I think, though let's see how I feel when I wake up in the morning), and we got takeaway pizza on the way home.

Macabre humour: I decided, over the course of our afternoon in the waiting room, that "Domestic to resus[citation]" is equivalent to "broken bottle in aisle 18", or, put another way, "... we spilled a patient :("

Further comment [cn someone having a Very Bad Day, no details]: I was very impressed with the very calm very brisk slightly singsong tone employed, over the tannoy, for "Staff announcement. A&E doctor to resus. A&E doctor to resus, please. Patient arrived." For the most part, announcements requesting the presence of a doctor specified a doctor by name, so... yeah.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

When I spent a couple days in hospital in 2019, we would occasionally hear that there was an ambulance expected in X minutes, and a vague concept of which staff should be sprinting there. It was always very calm.

We also got a verse of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star every now and then, and I asked about it. It turns out that means there's a new baby arrived.

[rmc28]

Oh! That's a nice touch.

[vass]

!!!!!!

I'm glad there was actual effective treatment, and I hope you feel much better after you wake up in the morning.

[rmc28]

Oof what a day. I hope the treatment is still effective today.

[lunabee34]

*hugs and hugs*

[ludy]

Oof! Hope the treatment continues to be effective.

Re:Macabre Humour I think some patients are self-spilling!
One of the times I was in resus (before my heart got fixed) I overheard a staff member telling relatives in the next cubicle that "The Bereavement Team" would be in touch with them. I am simultaneously glad that they provide that kind of aftercare and boggling that they haven't found a name that doesn't sound like a gang of assassins...

[divulge]

<333

[lokifan]

Oh man, I'd glad you got something effective!!! (Hopefully).

"We spilled a patient :(" made me lol

[davidgillon]

Yay for effective treatment, though eight hours in A&E is usually enough to give anyone a headache, even if they didn't start with one (or worse, a migraine).

[booksarelife]

Yay for hopefully actually effective treatment plans! (And I hope most of that 8 hours was spent getting help and not mostly in the waiting room)

[lebannen]

If you can hear any sort of sound like hollow laughter, it's probably my sister in the ambulance queue outside RCH Treliske. Admittedly I have no idea what Kab's experience in London was like, but once upon a time it was newsworthy whenever ambulances were unable to immediately discharge their patients into A&E. Now, in some places at least, it's becoming Just The Way Things Are.