Casualty

 

I had been taken to the casualty unit by ambulance following severe pain caused by an allergy to Neupogen.

 

As a cancer patient, I was seen straight away, only to be told that casualty cannot treat cancer patients, and that I would have to be seen in a specialist ward - B1.

 

The doctor on duty was Dr Savage, who, thankfully, had experience with cancer, and was able to give me some morphine in casualty, before arranging to have me transferred to B1. She explained that the blood problems caused by chemotherapy, such as low white blood cells, and all other associated problems, meant that any extreme emergency would be dealt with by them as a matter of urgency, but if it wasn’t life threatening, then cancer patients were dealt with exclusively by cancer nurses.

 

I spent the next 10 days in B1, with an awful lot of nurses and doctors fussing round me, and giving me pain relief. The first couple of nights I couldn’t sleep even with pain relief, and I had nurses sitting with me right throughout the night.

 

So make sure, if the need arises to visit casualty, that you inform them immediately that you have cancer.

 

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