Letters: Former nurse as patient sees Sask. health-care flaws

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Our health care is failing. I was a patient in hospital for six months last year. As a retired nurse, I was quite surprised how nursing care has changed. The waiting for surgery has been way too long. I even had to practically beg to get an MRI. I had sepsis, which had settled in my right knee.

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For the first two months practically nothing was done for me. I asked daily for some test to be done. This made my pain worse. I was in a transition unit, which was OK, but nurses don’t have much time to make patients comfortable. There was no time.

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Some patients are sitting up in a wheelchair from morning to evening. That was difficult to see.

I believe the long waiting time resulted in my knee needing three surgeries. I was finally put on intravenous antibiotics. Still now, after the six months in hospital, I am still on antibiotics. All this waiting until something was done was unbelievable.

I was always told everything was OK. Well, it was not OK. I had lots of pus in my knee. Something has to be done. We cannot afford to lose our good health care. Thanks to all the nursing staff I met.

Karla Kunze, Saskatoon

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