Tues 5th Mar

Today when I arrived Lins is siting in her chair, the room is very quiet no one wanted the TV on. I asked if she had seen the doctor or the physio and neither had been yet. By lunchtime still no one has been to see her so after lunch we go off into town. It started to rain on the way and we dithered about whether to turn back or not but the place is so depressing we carried on into town. We were looking for curtains for her bedroom but we didn't find any, we had a coffee in BHS before making our way back to the hospital,we arrived back at 230ish.  By 3.20 when I had to leave the elusive doctor still had not appeared. David arrived at the hospital at 4.45 he spoke to the ward sister,she said that there were some concerns about Lindseys temperature it was high and there might be a chance that she has a viral infection,they would take blood and urine samples and a swab from a wound that Lins has. This may prevent her coming home ,if it does she will be devastated and so will I. I find it extremely frustrating that I am there constantly and no one has ever expressed any concern about this before, and now at the 11th hour when she is due to be discharged they swing into action. David also spoke to the Nurse/Practitioner who said he needed me to be present when he examined Lindsey (I had been there for most of the day),apparently she has been labelled as not liking males looking after her..She does not have a problem with male doctors at all, in fact most of the doctors that have looked after her have been male.What she does have a problem with are young male HCA assisting her to use a bed pan,,and I agree its undignified enough for a young woman to have to go through that, without having a young male there. The hospital has huge posters all over the place promoting "single sex wards" and "dignity for all" apparently this doesn't count when you need the toilet!!