Continuing thanks for the words of encouragement.
The current situation is that I am still in the coronary care unit where i have been for 10 days. Until the end of day 9 I was in a mixed 8 bedded bay, then last night late I was suddenly moved to a single room. As a consequence I got a decent night's sleep. This afternoon, with little notice, I was moved again to another bay but this one is going to be all male. You can imagine my irritation.
At least the orthopaedic physiotherapists are back on the plan now and tell me they will attend each day and that I may be discharged home from here.
At a less anecdotal level, watching the various sub-systems of the NHS work, or not work, together is fascinating or would be if it did not impact on me quite to personally. Much of the information, so called, I get to hear is, in reality, fiction. The impact of the cuts and shortages means that just one key technician not being able to work throws off finely balanced daily lists for highly specialist interventions. Or one patient in the hospital suddenly becoming much more in need of the procedure can throw out the regular list for days as doctors, technicians, nurses all work to save a life. There appears to be little slack in the system to allow for sudden emergencies or staff illness/absence/training.
I notice my capacity to string words together (more or less coherently) is returning slowly.
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