Dog walking is dangerous!

Not feeling too bad at all, pain is well under control. Food is still an issue and people keep telling me they 've sorted it when they haven't but at least I'm not starving. I saw dietician today, she asked me if I had 'proper' allergy tests and then the senior advanced practitioner, who sorted the meds out, asked me pretty much the same question this evening. Do they think I've made it all up? It is all in my notes!
 
Pearlsasinger said:
Not feeling too bad at all, pain is well under control. Food is still an issue and people keep telling me they 've sorted it when they haven't but at least I'm not starving. I saw dietician today, she asked me if I had 'proper' allergy tests and then the senior advanced practitioner, who sorted the meds out, asked me pretty much the same question this evening. Do they think I've made it all up? It is all in my notes!
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Good about pain needs but bugger about diet. Just adds a layer you don't need.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
A quick update, operation postponed until at least Friday, as the leg/foot is still too swollen
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That is a big pita. I bet you were hoping it would be done a bit quicker. You’ve done a proper job on it, PaS. ?

Im horrified by the food situation, what on Earth are they thinking? And querying if you’ve had “proper’ tests?! Bloody hell! ?
 
I must admit that when they brought me over to Leeds late on Thursday/early Friday morning, I was hoping that would get time to draw breath before the op which was originally scheduled for Friday but I wasn't expecting this much time. However I have just googled 'fracture blister' I have one at each side of the leg and seen that it can take from 12 to 16 days to heal, depending on which kind they are (and I don't know) but waiting reduced chances of infection so I would rather wait. The thing is though that I would rather have waited in my local hospital because it would have been easier to have food brought in. I
I'm not hungry, although I am certainly not eating anywhere near the calories required but I am bored rigid as the only meals they can offer me are plain roast chicken or baked white fish. The veg to accompany those delights are carrots& broccoli or garden peas or green beans. The beans and broccoli haven't a vitamin left, they are so overcooked. I am providing my own teff flakes to eat with hemp milk for breakfast but they can't make teff/quinoa porrage for me.
I normally eat a lot of eggs and they can't cook them here.
In fact, I might have to approach this from a calorie intake pov. There isn't even a choice of fresh fruit. James Martin would weep if he could see this stuff!
 
Crikey, you are having a tough time.

It's hard to believe the incompetence; is this information about allergies not written into your notes, or do people simply not bother to read the notes?

Can you drink a raw egg beaten into your hemp milk?
 
Keith_Beef said:
Crikey, you are having a tough time.

It's hard to believe the incompetence; is this information about allergies not written into your notes, or do people simply not bother to read the notes?

Can you drink a raw egg beaten into your hemp milk?
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The dietician told me that she doesn't have access to the notes, before asking if I had proper tests the results of which I had just said were in the notes.
I know that the pharmacist in my local hospital, who was also sceptical, found the allergy test results in my notes and flagged them up in the paperwork that came over with me, because she found notes about drugs that I have had a bad reaction to previously and they know about those reactions here. She put some of the food allergies into my wrist band.

I really don't like the sound of raw egg in hemp milk, KB, so I wont suggest that, thanks
 
Pearlsasinger said:
The dietician told me that she doesn't have access to the notes, before asking if I had proper tests the results of which I had just said were in the notes.
I know that the pharmacist in my local hospital, who was also sceptical, found the allergy test results in my notes and flagged them up in the paperwork that came over with me, because she found notes about drugs that I have had a bad reaction to previously and they know about those reactions here. She put some of the food allergies into my wrist band.

I really don't like the sound of raw egg in hemp milk, KB, so I wont suggest that, thanks
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I pressed Like, because of the pharmacist who put some of your food allergies on your wristband. Even though it sounds like a lost battle when up against those hospitals dreadful routines about how to disregard food allergies.
 
FinnishLapphund said:
I pressed Like, because of the pharmacist who put some of your food allergies on your wristband. Even though it sounds like a lost battle when up against those hospitals dreadful routines about how to disregard food allergies.
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I can't believe how inflexible the system is. I understand that the kitchen staff have to stick to to their H&S procedures as far as food brought in from home is concerned but there seems to be no thought about what happens when someone's dietary requirements are not catered for in the normal menus
I shall pursue this further today, I hope.


ETA I have just found some dog treats in the pocket of the (rather scruffy) jacket that I was wearing on the fateful dog walk! Unfo
Fortunately I can't eat those either!
 
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CorvusCorax said:
I had something similar with a friend who was presenting with an allergy/food related condition, the food was made off site by a contractor and heated up at the hospital, they could guarantee nothing :( and the person was so sensitive that even shared prep area/utensils could make them very sick.
We brought a lot of cold stuff and invested in a lot of insulated containers!!
I was shocked by it, diet is a huge part of health/recovery and staff were too run off their feet to be able to take much on board.
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The majority of hospitals are set up like this it's very sad, I am sure the nutritionists really struggle but it is a cost thing. I have been in a hospital with a proper kitchen and even the staff and patients ate the same food it was pretty decent.
Keith_Beef said:
It's hard to believe the incompetence; is this information about allergies not written into your notes, or do people simply not bother to read the notes?
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Ah the mythic notes.
If you have tried to read hospital notes it's amazing if you tried to read them you'd understand.
 
Cloball said:
The majority of hospitals are set up like this it's very sad, I am sure the nutritionists really struggle but it is a cost thing. I have been in a hospital with a proper kitchen and even the staff and patients ate the same food it was pretty decent.

Ah the mythic notes.
If you have tried to read hospital notes it's amazing if you tried to read them you'd understand.
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If the handwriting is similar to that over here...

I swear that the first year of medical school must be a common syllabus for future pharmacists and doctors and the only subject on it is "how to write something so that only our two professions can read it".
 
Oh the handwriting isn't even the worst bit. Why are we even handwriting things these days? I find it is a combination of cramp, rushing, and trying to write holding 8 other sets of notes whilst running after the consultant with the other notes try to escape out the sides of the stack.
 
Cloball said:
The majority of hospitals are set up like this it's very sad, I am sure the nutritionists really struggle but it is a cost thing. I have been in a hospital with a proper kitchen and even the staff and patients ate the same food it was pretty decent.
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It is this system that I am so against.

I have worked in schools where 'cook, chill' meals were the norm and their nutrition standards were abysmal, just as the hospital ones are.

It is an absolute disgrace, imo that catering is outsourced, with someone who does not put funds back into the NHS making a profit, while people who are much more ill than I am are struggling to recover and being hindered from doing so by what they are being fed.

We are all being advised to cook from scratch at home and use the most nutritious ingredients available, yet hospital catering flies in the face of this advice. It's no good PHE pushing the anti-obesity message, when the NHS sanctions rubbish food, designed to make people obese.

All the fruit juice is 'from concentrate', the veg is overcooked beyond belief, breakfast cereals all appear to have sugar added yoghurts likewise. There isn't even a fresh fruit option for the pudding course at every meal. And that's before I start on my individual dietary needs which apparently cannot be met.

And the service gets away with it because most people only spend a few days in hospital and are so glad to get home that they don't complain formally
 
PaS, I hope that you get some more nutritious food soon.

I remember back to when when my brother made a brief appearance in the first ‘Doctors to be’ television series. He was then a registrar, and he was doing a surgical ward round with the medical students in tow.

He told them then in front of the cameras that a patient could starve to death in hospital - he wasn’t kidding :oops:.
 
I am incandescent!

Kitchen supervisor has just shown me a letter she has been sent from yesterdays dietician. How can a dietician say that somone with a maize allergy can eat sweetcorn?:eek::eek::eek:. Not to mention the "ham (but it does contain dextrose)". The ham is on the ketogenic menu and shouldn't be as the dextrose doesn't fit the diet anyway but dextrose most commonly is derived from maize. I bet my blood pressure which was coming down nicely has just shot up!
 
Pearlsasinger said:
I am incandescent!

Kitchen supervisor has just shown me a letter she has been sent from yesterdays dietician. How can a dietician say that somone with a maize allergy can eat sweetcorn?:eek::eek::eek:. Not to mention the "ham (but it does contain dextrose)". The ham is on the ketogenic menu and shouldn't be as the dextrose doesn't fit the diet anyway but dextrose most commonly is derived from maize. I bet my blood pressure which was coming down nicely has just shot up!
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Words fail me... Roll on Friday and a very early release lass!
 
Sister is organising a complaint to PALS as we speak.
I did have to laugh tho as, in and amongst the texts about dietician I also requested another food parcel. She asked what I want in it, I thought she meant the complaint, when she actually meant the food parcel! That relieved a bit of the tension fortunately.
 
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Cinnamontoast said:
This is so bonkers! Sweet corn for someone who is unable to eat sweetcorn maize?! Insanity. And from the dietician? Omg, I despair.
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That was my reaction, too. But the first meeting I had with a dietician left me shaking my head as she told me that I knew more about what needed to know about than she did. Knowing that I am allergic to wheat, she wanted me to make bread with chappatti flour, which funnily enough is wheat flour. I think she was thinking if gram flour which is used in Asain cooking but not for making chappattis. This was just after my diagnosis, when I was struggling to work out meal plans.
A different dietician told another allergy patient to practically ignore what the doctor had told her to avoid, telling her she needed to eat ...... And I know an HHO member who says that a dietician nearly killed her during a hospital stay. They are an odd buncho_Oo_O
 
Cinnamontoast said:
Also just googled fracture blisters and rather wish I hadn’t! ?
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They are healing quite well now, although I certainly know about it when the dressing has been changed. I asked the consultant about infection from them, he said that is one reason for using the rings, he will avoid the blisters while fixing the bones to the rings
 
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