MY FATHER’S DEATH

MY FATHER WAS VERY ILL WITH A SEVERE PAIN IN IS BOWEL. HE HAD ALSO BEEN GOING BACK AND FORE TO THE TOILET, AND WAS UNABLE TO EAT. I CALLED THE SURGERY AND DR. G.M.O’DWYER CAME OUT TO VISIT HIM. DOCTOR SAID THAT IT WAS GASTROENTERITIS WHICH WOULD TAKE A TIME TO GO AWAY.
THE FOLLOWING DAY HE WAS IN EXTREME PAIN SO I RANG THE SURGERY AGAIN, AND DR. MARTYN J. DAVIES RANG BACK. HE WOULD NOT SPEAK TO ME BUT MADE MY FATHER COME IN PAIN TO THE PHONE. HE SAID THE SAME THING AS THE PREVIOUS G.P.
DIAGNOSIS BY PHONE !!!

WHEN MY FATHER RECOVERED ENOUGH TO BE TAKEN TO THE SURGERY, HE SAW A DIFFERENT DOCTOR WHO ARRANGED AN APPOINTMENT AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE IT WAS FOUND THAT PART OF HIS BOWEL HAD DIED.

HE HAD AN OPERATION TO REMOVE THAT SECTION OF THE BOWEL BY MR. P.N. HARAY. FOLLOWING THE OPERATION HE BECAME VERY ILL. I EVEN TOLD THE WARD SISTER HOW HE WAS FEELING BUT SHE TOOK NO NOTICE. IT TURNED OUT THAT WHAT WE HAD SAID WERE THE CLASSIC SYMPTOMS OF TOXIC SHOCK.
MY FATHER DIED.

THE POST MORTEM SHOWED THAT A STITCH IN THE BOWEL HAD COME UNDONE AND THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS THE OPERATION.

SEEMS IT IT ALWAYS BE BEST TO CALL FOR AN AMBULANCE AND NOT A G.P.

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