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Jean was diagnosed with a rare gynae cancer in November 2004.
It was agreed she would require extensive surgery and would require an ICU bed after her surgery.
Due to Christmas Holidays Jean’s Surgery was delayed until January, thus, ensuring all the specialist nursing care which she would require would be available.
She was admitted to the hospital 2 days prior to her surgery and prepared for the surgery.
The morning of surgery her pre-med was administered, she then lay and waited to go to theatre.
The anaesthetist came to see her and informed her, the surgery had been cancelled, as there was not a bed available in the ICU they had been taken up during the night!
Her team had tried to get a bed for her to no avail.
Jean was then sent home to deal with this along with all her family. How could this amount of pressure be put on a cancer patient and her family?
She was told she would be contacted on Monday 10th January 2005 and be given a new date for her surgery, she did not receive that call today?
She is now devastated beyond belief and again is back to waiting for the call to say her surgery has been booked for another date.
So, who is to blame for this?
Jean is not angry with her medical team they have supported her so much and were all as angry and frustrated as she is too.
So who is responsible for this outrage?
Only a few can he held responsible for this disgraceful situation, these have to be The Prime Minister and The Health minister, for their inadequacy to securing enough funding to have prevented this totally unacceptable event from taking place.
No one in the Government or the NHS can even begin to understand what this lady is feeling right now along with all of her family, and please God they never have to.
The amount of preparation for this type of surgery takes an enormous effort to plan, and all of this is not even taken into account.
All of these Consultants and their teams had booked this day to assist with Jean’s surgery, yet due to the lack of funding for ICU beds all of this carefully planned surgery came to end, all because of a bed shortage???
How can this be justified? It cannot be, nor can this ever be made up to Jean for what they have put her and her family through. It is just sheer torture, psychological torture!!! something no one should ever be subject to.
To be diagnosed with any cancer is the one disease the whole of the human race are terrified of being diagnosed with.
The fear of loosing a battle you have not even begun!!!
The fear of having such surgery, so many fears to deal with and they all come at once, we all know, we have all had a rare cancer diagnosis. We have all come through this, something when you are first diagnosed think is impossible. Cancers of this type, if caught early have an excellent prognosis, and the sooner the surgery is carried out the better the outcome will be.
To be diagnosed with a rare cancer, where the surgery takes a great deal of planning and there is inevitable a longer wait than other surgeries, we can all accept this to a certain degree but to put a patient through all of this in 2005 is no longer acceptable..
Just sit there for one minute and think about what Jean must be going through right now,along with her family too. There is no word than can suffice how our Dearest friend is feeling right now along with her family too.
Cancer is a soul destroying disease to also have, and sadly more people will be diagnosed with this devastating disease, and yet it would seem the NHS does not make themselves accountable for this part of this disease. The psychological part which take so much longer to recover from.
Much worse being told on the last minute your surgery cannot go ahead, due to lack of beds.
We know, we have been there and know what this waiting can do to all cancer patients waiting for surgery.
When will this stop,? When will the NHS sit up and take responsibility, and make the improvements that are well overdue in the Health service.
This very Brave lady now has the painful experience of waiting for that call to tell her she can have her surgery and somehow a guarantee this will not happen all over again.
She once again has to go through all the trauma of waiting for surgery, yet again, of being readmitted and going through the whole process again.
Please help us to get the message to the Prime Minister and the Health Minister that we are no longer prepared to just sit back and allow these cancellations to continue.
They have to stop!!!
We are going to the Government as a group of ladies who have all been down this path, been though this soul destroying disease, and the wait. We know as many of you who will be reading this exactly what this lady is now feeling.
We in the UK need to now take a stand with the Government and make them realise we are not prepared to put up with their idle promises and keep patients such as Jean in a system which is totally unacceptable.
Help us to take a stronger case to this Government who promise so much and are yet, still to deliver!!!!
This petition will be mailed (in snail and e format) to The Prime Minister and The Health Minister also The DOH also all MP’s sitting in the House by September 2005. A copy will also be delivered by hand to 10 Downing Street. If you support our cause then please add your signature below.
Thank you
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