Cherie's Place

I took these pictures whilst walking to register my car for free parking at the local hospital. It was a happy day,  the sun was out, my mum was visiting the hospital for a routine check up and later in the day I was due to for a pampering session at the hairdressers.

A few minutes later my happy bubble was burst…

Mum had fallen over in the clinic and it was decided that her routine appointment had to be postponed. She was taken to A&E by one of the clinic nurses. We waited in A&E for a relatively short while before the routine observations and assessment of what was needed next. The conlusion turned out to be an X- ray of her wrist but they were not worried about the slight bump to her forehead.

The clinician who did mums obs walked her up to the X-ray deparment (the wheelchair provided by the clinic had vanished). The clinician told us to sit in the sideroom after her X-ray, rather than go back to the mayhem of the A&E waiting room.

It was calm, it was lunchtime and we were offered food and drink and for mum more routine observations. We were a little bit worried that mum would be overlooked, so we spoke to one of the nurses. Soon after that two doctors arrived and took mum to a quiet place to assess her injuries. She was deemed as fit apart from a broken wrist which  was put in temporary soft plaster cast by the clinician who did her obs.

She is now back home in her safe place…

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