We have been back in Wollongong nearly 2 weeks and my father was moved from a public hospital to a private hospital due to issues at the public hospital. We luckily, through a freind, got dad a top specialist to look after him. He had one toe amputated in the public hospital due to lack of blood flowing to his toes. Since he has been in the private hospital, he has had another 2 toes on the same foot amputated where his foot was cut on a 45 degree angle. Not pretty looking. The issues have been the slack nurses st the private hopsital, who seem to not give a Shit. When dad buzzes them to help him it takes ages, I was sitting there one visit and he hit the buzzer and 19 mins later one turned up. Now dads room is straight opposite the nurse station and I watched 5 nurses either sitting there or just walking around chatting. Today my sister noticed that the machine attached to dads foot to suck away the impurities on his foot has not been connected to power. I even noticed it was never connected to power as we thought it was battery operated. Apparently it is but for only an hour. So for the last 4 days the machine has not worked and know he has a hospital infection, which is not good. He has been put on a drip. The nurses have even helped dad change his pants during our visits in the last 4 days and did not check if the machine was working. One evening dad yelled out saying he had to go to the toilet urgently and nurses ran in, hit his table with food on it and something fell off the table and cut his other leg, which has a large bandage on it. He bleeds easily due to his cancer medication he has been on for a while.
He was ready to go to rehab this week but now we are concerned about this major infection. My sister rang the specialist who is looking after dad and he was furious and said he will tear strips off the nurses. Yes private cover is great and you can get some great doctors , specialists but it's the caring afterwards that has let dad down. Yes, dad can be a pain in the ass, being 82, but he does not deserve what he has been through.