Monday, November 02, 2009

The Plastic Man

The muscle graft man (actually he’s a plastic surgeon or “plastic man” as the nurses call him) was supposed to call on Friday. He didn’t turn up. It seems someone at the hospital in Durham failed to process the referral. Now we know from experience that not processing a referral from a GP in good time is commonplace in the NHS, but to fail to process a referral from one consultant to another could have far reaching consequences of the career-limiting kind for someone.

However, there have been other developments. The hospital put a drain dressing on to measure how much her wound was leaking. Very little came out, but Marie’s leg turned bright red. Some sort of reaction to the adhesive we think. It can’t be serious because the consultant simply asked for some cortisone cream to be applied. Of course when that will appear is another matter. On past form it will take at least 24 hours.

John

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm allergic to pretty much every adhesive dressing the NHS has to offer, including micrpore. Poor Marie! And what a ridiculous shenanighans over the referral. Time for Marie to put on her Patient from Hell hat and give someone an earful...

Love & hugs as always

Jenny