Well, thanks for all the messages... He's still in... Wife is on the night shift. Don't think he'll be out this weekend.... My wife bumped I to the surgeon this evening on her way in.... ( straight after surgery she had to do rounds... At 3am!) so we missed her. apparently his stomach had quite a bit of puss in it from the appendix.... Hence why he's still in.... Bless him.... When his best mate in school found out he was in hospital they couldn't stop him crying.
What the kids need these days when stuck in hospital, is a cheery visit or two from friendly Radio/BBC 1 personalities. All the best for the lad's recovery.
Yep.... He's just starting to come round today... I got him to walk about 5 meters or so.... That was it.... Out like a light...
Heh... Wish I could.... All he's had since last Saturday is 3/4 of a fruit shoot... He's been on a drip the whole time... And he threw that up!
Here in Switzerland we have compulsory health insurance - no NHS. Mine costs about £250 a month which isn't the bare minimum cover but by no means the max either. But I have an excess of about £1'000 which reduces the premiums. What this means effectively is that I am insured for anything big that might happen, like a hospital stay, but not for anything small, which I will have to pay myself. So if I see a doctor for the flu (I wouldn't) I have to fork out, but if I got an appendicitis or had a chronic illness, I wouldn't. The excess is applied every year. It is always cheaper to have an excess even if you required an amount of medical care that exceeded it in any given year. Accident insurance is paid by your employer (even if the accident happens in your own time) and carries no excess. Do I think this system is better than the UK one? Not necessarily but it definitely makes you think twice before going to see a doctor for some minor ailment as unless you make a complete habit of it ( and have already paid your entire excess) you'll end up paying for it. Oh, and 10% of the bill is yours to pay anyway - insurance only covers the 90%.
£3000 pa is a hefty premium to pay. What do those on low pay (is it allowed to be on low pay in Swizerland?) do ? What happens to someone who exceeds their level of cover ?
I have 3 kids.... Yeah, they've got consoles and laptops and the like but they're not addicted to them, in fact because it's all there, theyre not.... Both of them prefer lego. They have scooters which they're usually out on in the road.....
Firstly, Comfysofa I hope your lad gets better soon. I wouldn't wish that on anyone let alone a 6 year old. However, I want to add some balance. Earlier this year I got home at 9:00am on a Sunday morning to find a wife in panic as our two month old daughter's legs had turned bright red (think extremely severe sunburn red) and her feet had turned blue. She was burning up and screaming with distress. We got her to A&E pretty sharpish! By the time we got there about 15 minutes later she'd calmed down was having a nap and the world was good again. We saw the triage nurse within 30 minutes, waited 3 hours to see a doctor who said bloods should be taken (they thought it could be a blood clotting issue), another 3 hours for bloods to be taken and then 1.5 hours for results. I'm happy to say they found nothing wrong and she's been fine since. So we were there all day, and thankfully little Lizzie was fine and looked and sounded healthy throughout. So in your initial post you're saying we shouldn't have been there? Read the initial symptoms, none of which presented in A&E, and tell me you wouldn't have taken your little ones in and stayed until the doctors gave you the all clear rather than when they looked healthy? I don't know what the answer is to A&E issues. But just because someone looks healthy doesn't mean they are. Or just because someone looks healthy at that time doesn't mean there isn't a reason to check them out.
Tough one I agree but you know what was or did happen.... Eg the lady with the kid with the plaster on her head... I would say walk in centre? That's where I would take mine in that situation.... The little boy with the "little rash" for me... Walk in center.... The lad who lost short term memory.... Definitely A&E... I think it comes down to common sense decisions...
One of my best friends died this year of meningitis. He was 43. Another one of my friends son had it. He did the checks (for the type of rash) and took him to A&E it was. Then a couple of years later he got what he thought was the same rash. He did the checks, took him to the walk in center. It was, as he suspected not the case. So, don't be too quick to field a quickfire response. Meningitis has been pretty close to me and my friends has has been fatal in one case.
in which case you'll understand what looks like simple less serious symptoms from the outside can actually be far worse on the inside. In an emergency its not the screaming bleeding that need attendance, its the quiet ones coz they may not be able to scream I had it when I was young
The point I'm making is that with a bit common sense (as I said before) some preliminary assessment can be done.
