ok well, no wound care nurse on today. rang to see if i could speak to someone in emergency but they put me through to some stupid healthcare line and they said to just go into emergency and not bother with a gp or anything like that, which is fair enough because they dont have the skills or supplies to help me. so i go to emergency. the rude cow of a nurse didnt even know what a port was and had no clue what i was talking about so i got a very low priority. she even ignored me and others if we asked her a question! 3 hours later and i still havent been seen and they say there are still more people before me. people who came in after me who had absolutely nothing wrong with them were going in before me, then coming out cheering "yay there was nothing wrong with me after all duuuh". its late, i was hungry, i couldnt stay there much longer anyway because my drugs are due so i left. they didnt care one bit that i said i was leaving. i was treated like a spec of dirt. when i got home i took off my temporary dressing which i 'made' which doesnt stick in the middle and there is ooze with god knows what bacteria in it all around the needle now. im going to leave it without a dressing. maybe tape a bit of gauze over it and thats it. not exactly safe but there is a far less chance of getting an infection that way. keeping a dressing on will just make it more damp and gross, bigger chance of bacteria breeding in that.
what a wonderful caring hospital mine is....