RE: RE: RE: Nervous9 Feb 2020 23:18
think i said right at the beginning when you were first admitted, learn and understand what you need to do to keep you safe, check everything that is or isnt done for you and ask questions, learn to help the staff to help you. The NHS is a fantastic organisation, I am its biggest fan i would be here no longer without it but it has flaws the same as all organisations. 99.9% of the staff are excellent, but the ball is easily dropped where care overlaps and staff are so stretched, to you it is all personal to the staff it is a career a job, that is important to remember. The organisational issues and admin let it down. i too learned that the hard way. The longer term patients biggest battle however is with themselves, keeping mentally sane focussed and stimulated whilst trapped in there is hugely difficult, your mind is powerful and can either make you or break you, so you must control it and make it work for you, not against. This is simply not understood by the staff or most patients.
In mid March i am planning on walking the 220 miles from my home around the coast path to the hospital that saved my life, walking is what i enjoy doing to relax, i couldn't do that anymore without them for all their faults, id have been dead a long time already, if it were not for the NHS. Each step will be a victory for us both.