299 Days in a Hospital Ward: Why This 3-Year-Old Can't Go Home... | Hospital

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  @laura7607 · 10 days ago

  I was stuck in hospital for 21 months in 2020-2022. I was medically fit to leave after 3 months but was stuck waiting for a nursing care package to go home. It broke me being in hospital all that time and in the end I came home with only part a care package in place. Community care for complex needs is in complete crisis, especially finding nurses seems impossible. It’s a very scary unstable position to be in.

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• LI

  @liesbeth9810 · 9 days ago (edited)

  Just wish people like Brian would get a wheelchair better suited for the situation. The hospital type chair he has now (here we call those transport chairs), just limits him. An better fitted active chair or electric chair would make his life so much easier. I really feel for him and hope he has found a place he can call home by now.

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• DE

  @dearbh1736 · 8 days ago (edited)

  My older sister was born with a major genetic condition that impacted her digestive system in 1960. She spent the first 3 and a half years of her life permanently in Harcourt Street Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. My family lived about 60 miles away from the hospital and there were 6 kids in the family so it was hard for my mother and father to get to see her every week and they also couldn't take any of us with them to see her as children were not allowed to visit at the hospital. By the time she was discharged and arrived home she was a little girl who did not know any of us and barely knew her parents. It really had an impact on her that remained with her throughout her life and she has always struggled with her mental health which I believe the genesis was from her start in life. She had regarded the nurses and one of the doctors in particular as her family and to just be whisked away into a total alien environment must have been horrendous for her. There is just one, old black and white photograph of a nurse holding her as a baby and it has always been her most treasured possession. Apparently she had grown into quite a character at the hospital and the staff were very fond of her but at home she just regressed into quietness and wanting to be by herself. Ironically, my oldest sister gave birth to a baby boy who had the exact same condition and he did have to undergo surgeries but was able to come home within a matter of a few weeks. Thank goodness things have moved on in that way but sad to see how the emergency services are so pushed beyond their limits both for staff and patients. It must be incredibly stressful to work in that environment but they are very kind - especially the people of Liverpool.

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• NA

  @natas809 · 11 days ago

  The manager from Paisley court is amazing, she wasn't initially saying no, she was getting all of the information to make sure that 1 they can care for him, and 2 that staff and John remain safe, it is one of the hardest things to do and sadly sometimes a place looks amazing but they cannot offer what is needed, but theres nothing worse than someone going to the care home, and not being safe or they cannot care for them properly.

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• ME

  @merandareast2552 · 8 days ago

  The crazy thing is it costs the government more to keep people like Hari in hospital for so long than it would to buy land and build them a brand new house!

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• LO

  @loriepark404 · 10 days ago

  I am a retired nurse in the USA. I worked at a major trauma hospital for 32 years and in the last 12-13 years before I retired conditions were very much like this with hospital beds full, ambulances waiting to offload patients and non life threatening ER patients waiting for over 20 hours for treatment. We were very good with prioritizing and treating major trauma but once patients were admitted to the hospital it was difficult to find long term placement and support for them once they were medically stable. Trauma is often life changing and resources have become more limited as care improved to help people survive so there is a lot of competition for the rehab or long term care beds.

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• MI

  @Mich44-369 · 13 days ago

  Johns breaking my heart 😢

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• FR

  @FronteirWolf · 10 days ago

  I was in hospital when I was well enough to leave, but was waiting on getting that date to go into supported living. First I had to go to panel, and waited 2 weeks to find out if I'd got a place there, then I think it was another fortnight waiting on my moving date coming up. The psychiatrist actually offered me to go there 2 weeks, then come back to the ward, and then be properly discharged and I was like, "No thanks, I just want out of here."

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• DO

  @donnarupert59 · 9 days ago

  God bless Hari, he’s so precious. His Mom and Dad are do stressed🥺💔

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• DO

  @donnarupert59 · 9 days ago

  Poor John, God bless his soul🥺💔

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• IR

  @irenedavo3768 · 13 days ago

  It’s awful getting old!

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• SE

  @semoneh3331 · 12 days ago

  Hari is such a bright young man, I hope he has as wonderful a life as possible at home with his family

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