29-03-2006, 02:21 AM
Thank you for all your words of advice and your kindness. Obviously a person like me will not take this lying down, but to have 'reacted' yesterday would have been wrong, because I may have said something that I would have later regretted.
Having had the chance to look at things as they stand, I now know my course of action and will be discussing it with my daughter and her partner later today.
Several years ago on Robin's very first day at High School he was tripped and broke his ankle. Everything was going well until we took him for his routine check-up when a stupid young House Doctor stated that he did not have a broken ankle and sent him home without the plaster. I do not think the Chief Executive knew what hit him because within 24 hours he had received a solicitors letter, a phone call from my MP and several other prominent people - that Robin was recalled to the hospital, new x-rays taken that clearly showed the ankle was still broken. Eventually Ruth and I decided not to sue, and accepted their apologies - so I think that if my daughter allows, I am going to go down similar lines with this case.
To be honest I detest doing this, as in many other matters the hospital has done us proud, but I am not prepared to stand by and see my daughter suffer.
Will keep you informed as to what transpires.
Having had the chance to look at things as they stand, I now know my course of action and will be discussing it with my daughter and her partner later today.
Several years ago on Robin's very first day at High School he was tripped and broke his ankle. Everything was going well until we took him for his routine check-up when a stupid young House Doctor stated that he did not have a broken ankle and sent him home without the plaster. I do not think the Chief Executive knew what hit him because within 24 hours he had received a solicitors letter, a phone call from my MP and several other prominent people - that Robin was recalled to the hospital, new x-rays taken that clearly showed the ankle was still broken. Eventually Ruth and I decided not to sue, and accepted their apologies - so I think that if my daughter allows, I am going to go down similar lines with this case.
To be honest I detest doing this, as in many other matters the hospital has done us proud, but I am not prepared to stand by and see my daughter suffer.
Will keep you informed as to what transpires.
Always enjoy life - and remember there is always someone worse off than yourself - treat others as you yourself would want to be treated.