"Inadequate care"

When I was taken to resus at Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, I feel I experienced inadequate care. Upon coming round from collapsing after being assisted to the toilet, a nurse spoke over me to another nurse asking if I was faking it.

Whilst on the ward I feel there were not enough health care staff. I feel my condition and pain was dismissed (there seemed to be a clear lack of knowledge and understanding about my condition, and prejudice also, in my view).

I was left in sodden sheets for hours, was not provided with adequate personal care, was left unattended which led to another collapse/fall in which I hit my head on the radiator, and when I had been left unattended to try and wash myself I had a seizure, which another patient alerted the health care assistants to.

They had to lift me onto the bed as I was coming round and was dropped so that I bounced, and the staff laughed. The whole experience left me feeling dehumanised, humiliated and degraded with a sense of shame and trauma from the experience.