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[billmoria]

I started at the Royal London/Barts. I was only at the Royal London for two dialysis sessions. Good staff, very crowded and small and noisy. I went to Barts (next to St Paul's) for a few weeks on the morning shift  Nurses were great but transportation was difficult and I was waiting for Whipps Cross to open a twilight shift. Whipps was much closer to my home and made transportation easier. The nurses were mostly good to excellent however two nurses were never able to needle me well. I have a deep fistula.
My blood access via a tube fell out over night and I went back to the Royal London to needle my fistula for the first time. I was very lucky as it was just at the recommended 6 weeks of maturing. I went back to Whipps the next dialysis session. I disliked Whipps because there were 10 televisions which were all on at the same time. It was too loud and disruptive. The system was designed to use earphones but that never worked and it was just too loud.
I was transferred to Queens Hospital in Romford. I was a bit upset as it is a bit further from my home and in the wrong direction for drive time on the way in. Once I got there all those things did not matter. The nurses at Queens are superb. The first think you notice is the quiet as there are not televisions. You can read or use your computer. The doctors are good and we are only a few steps from A&E in a real emergency. The other patients are and we have a lot laughs with ourselves and the nurses.
The London    B    Barts  C -  because of transportation Whipps  C   Queens  A

[Poppylicious]

*gasp* ... no televisions!?  My Blokey would do his nut if he had no access to a tellybox at dialysis.  In fact, on the very rare (twice) occasions that he gets the one bed with no working tellybox, he does indeed come home rather cranky.  I've been to dialysis with him a few times and it is *so* quiet (they all take their own headphones; no headphones, no telly) that I'm scared to turn the pages of my book because it will be *so* loud in comparison!

My nana died at Queens Hospital.  It had nothing to do with dialysis though; she was 92.

I'm pleased you're somewhere you like though, even if it is a bit further for you to travel.  Blokey has to travel a bit further, but that's because they don't do a twilight shift at our local hospital.  As it turns out, it's probably better because all the important people are where he is. 

 

I might ask him what he'd rate his unit as out of ten, but I daren't say where he's dialysed because I like to keep some anonymity online.

[kitkatz]

I get cranky when the TV is out by my bed.  I threaten to sing all night long.