hospitals and politics

Friday night i was out with my friends having a lovely meal ,when i returned home Andy was feeling really ill he was dizzy and felt sick and had stomach pains,then he was really sick ,i was really worried ,then he said would you ,help me to bed,so i took him upstairs and at that point i realised how week he became ,he went into the toilet and then got into bed ,i went in the toilet after him and noticed a lot off fresh blood in the toilet ,so i asked Andy if he new he was bleeding and he said no but he said he had diarrhoea ,so i said to Andy if your bad in the morning i will phone the hospital,well Andy was up and down all night and i was with him ,Saturday morning and Andy was still really ill ,so at ten am i phoned Sheffield were Andy goes for dialysis and spoke to a staff nurse who was very nice and i explained to him about Andy and he told me to phone 999 ,so i did ,and explained to this lady that Andy was a dialysis patient and was being sick and the dizziness and stomach pains and blood loss ,and she asked me if Andy was breathing and conscious,so i said yes,and she said well I'm sorry but i cant send a ambulance to you because its not urgent but i will get a nurse to phone you back you will be priority,i couldn't believe it ,so twenty minutes later a nurse phoned me so i told her everything ,then the nurse said I'm going to talk to someone and i will get back to you ,so ten minuets or so later nurse phoned back an said that she was sending a paramedic to assess Andy so i said thank you ,half an hour later paramedic turned up to assess Andy ,he was very good with Andy and said he was going to try and get him a ambulance directly to Sheffield if he can ,anyway after five minuets on the phone tryng to get Andy admitted into hospital he came in and said Andy will be taken to bassetlaw hospital because Sheffield has not got that admission policy ,which i thought was a complete waste of time because i knew we would end up in Sheffield because bassetlaw does not have a renal ward ,so we got to bassetlaw hospital and the the staff was very quick and doctors was brilliant attending to Andy,which we can not fault in any way ,well it was about three thirty when they came into to Andy and said that he was really poorly and that they were transferring him two Sheffield by blues and twos,at this point i was really upset and a bit angry because Andrew was suffering ,and on the way to Sheffield Andy's blood pressure dropped and i was aware that at that moment he was in trouble and the ambulance had to pull over and sort Andy out ,it was very frighting,anyway we got to Sheffield and the staff was absolutely brilliant with Andy they all know Andy because he has spent allot of time on that ward .it was a mad for abit lots of doctors around Andy he needed a blood urgently and that followed by dialysis ,they was very concerned and said Andrew was critical,after three hours Andy was still critical but stable ,so me and Andy's dad went home ,but kept in touch with the hospital ,i was really upset and felt guilty leaving him but there wasn't anything i could do,at 4am the phone rang Andy had a turn for the worse his blood pressure had dropped and had lost allot of blood again,and they said he was going to theatre and then going to high dependence unit, i was very worried and later managed to get back to the hospital with Andrews parents ,when we arrived Andy was a bit better they had managed to stop the blood loss and told us that he was bleeding from his pancreas and that he needs surgery to remove it but they cant do it at Sheffield he will have to be transferred to Manchester royal infirmary tomorrow ,anyway we left Andy to sleep as he was very tired ,and were just waiting for a phone call now to say they are transferring him,I'm not annoyed with any staff or doctors and nurses or the paramedics because they do a brilliant job ,but its all that time wasting tryng to get him into hospital ,i feel if bassetlaw had a renal unit like Sheffield and doncaster my husbands treatment would not of been delayed,will not be about for a while I'm off to Manchester with hubby ,so ttfn,and thank you to all our family and friends for being there.xxxx