Bad pain days and good friend days:

I assisted a friend with a hospital visit lately as I was worried about her and the chairs alone were a complete and utter torture device for anyone and everyone that may be attending a hospital with pain, swelling, fractures, dislocations, and more!

It made it practically nigh on impossible for me to stay with her longer than the 5/6 hours of hell I endured and I'm in agony even more so today with.

I feel like we're going backwards in certain areas and a recent local trip to a Morrisons left a bad taste in my mouth when I saw how poorly they had planned their disabled toilet!

I will be doing a Tiktok on that as soon as I can, meanwhile I need to see what I can do about such seating, they need to remove the connections because the rows being interconnected are problematic when people sit, move, breathe or knock them accidentally.

The movements are amplified and vibrate through the whole set causing absolute agony for people who are disabled with chronic pain conditions like myself, and I can't believe someone consented to these for a hospital emergency room.

Were they pre-approved by a sadist?

I joke...sort of.

But it's no joke when place like the hospital choose to make it harder for people to wait.

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I also struggled as I walked through a corridor with random porter chairs, chairs with wheels for those unfamiliar with hospital settings, we got to the room for my friend to get checked over by the third cog in the machine, when they told me and my friend that "I can stand." 

I asked if someone could get a chair, (having passed a few and now regretting not grabbing one..) and they replied, "There is none".

..This was after I explained I'm hurting from the chairs of doom, to which I was again told to stand so I said I'd sit on the floor.

*My disability should not be treated like a burden therefore if no one will help me I will help myself and have no issues sitting on the floor, even though my knees will get bruised and it will take a while to get back up.*

They refused to accommodate me, so I went to exit to the waiting room in which my friend asked what was happening, and I explained that they're simply not disabled accessible with their rooms and I can't support her and I am not allowed to sit on the floor so I have no choice but to exit to the waiting room.

The lady then offered me her seat, I was grateful and appreciative, despite the initial struggle and directness but I got to support my friend and that's what mattered to me at the time.

They are a good friend of mine and so many things were happening that made my heart sink.

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This local hospital has to be one of the most poorly-organised one in local history and although I wasn't the patient yesterday I was still treated poorly and like a burden because I need to manage my disability and pain.

My heart went out to everyone in the waiting room yesterday, extremely long waits, some up to ten hours from what I heard, and it just breaks my heart.

I understand the staff are stressed but so are patients and they're in actual pain and not well enough to do any sort of job, so they should be treated with better respect than they are and how I saw.

If a patient even says something remotely bad they're immediately escorted off premises yet so many staff are allowed to do much worse and a nurse actually said to an elderly lady patient in the waiting room, yesterday, that the doctor was MIA and she'd been sent to put a sling on.

What was that about?!

Divulging such information that specifies such careless attention from professionals only stresses, already struggling, human beings out.

Nah, they deserved way better.

I hope I die quickly and easily when it's my turn and I hope I can avoid attending hospitals as much as possible!

They are definitely not a safe space.

Disappointed and heartbroken that I can't be saying more positive things about the hospital yesterday but reality is rarely how we want it to be.

All we can do is report on it and work together towards actioning positive change.

I'd start with that waiting room!

I'd even put nature screensavers on the useless TV they have as it would work as a distraction technique for those already suffering.

The hospital world's need more compassion and more caring in their hospital care of patients and visitors.

Period 

And the NHS websites should not be allowed to control what reviews are approves and what aren't as it's censored to F-.

Stay safe,

Love from your local little truth teller,

Sarah xoxo 

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