My mum was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth hospital (Glasgow) in May 2018 for a routine ankle operation with the expectation to be in and out within one week. Her operation was deemed to be successful.
Post op recovery fracture blisters were discovered very soon after the operation. The fracture blisters were being dressed in hospital on a regular basis for a period of two weeks. My mum was then discharged home with a cast on her leg.
My mum was then asked to go back to hospital every week for 6 weeks via patient transport (70 mile round trip). During this time my mum was picked up at 8am and wasn't returned home until after 6pm. During these visits she was not once offered food or drinks. As she was in a cast her mobility was limited. At one point during her visit she asked a nurse if she could get any food. The nurse returned a ferro Roche.
On another occasion she asked a nurse to fetch her a sandwich as she couldn't walk to the shop, the nurse said this wasn't something she was allowed to do. On her sixth visit she saw a different consultant, he advised she had to be admitted immediately to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary to the Plastic Surgery department. Whereupon her initial treatment was the debridement of the wound followed by live maggot treatment.
At no point was any family member approached to be advised of a care plan or the seriousness of the condition of my mums wound. She then received a skin graft and her hospital stay at the Royal totalled to one month. Thereafter she was discharged home.
Despite the plastic surgery she has been left with severe disfigurement on her foot and since her initial admittance her condition is now worse than it had ever been and she has since said she wishes she had never got the operation in the first place. My mum is still in pain and is now using a walker (she never needed this before) she is still under outpatient care. To put this into perspective a routine 7 day operation is still continuing after almost 5 months.
"Wound Care"
About: Glasgow Royal Infirmary / Plastic Surgery & Burns (wards 45, 47, 48 & 49) Glasgow Royal Infirmary Plastic Surgery & Burns (wards 45, 47, 48 & 49) G4 0SF Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow / Orthopaedics (Wards 10a, 10b, 10c &10d) Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow Orthopaedics (Wards 10a, 10b, 10c &10d) Glasgow G51 4TF
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