My Son died on the 1st of March with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. He was only 40 years old and was only admitted into Hospital 2 days before. He visited Doctors 2 weeks before with symptoms of weight loss, diarrhoea and extremely sore throat and ears. The doctor took bloods including full blood count and a couple of days later he called for results and was told he had glandular fever and was commenced on penicillin. He lived with us (his parents) and his younger sister. We tried to get help as he was taking very high temperatures and night sweats but to no avail. The Doctors and NHS 24 did not respond as he had a diagnosis of Glandular Fever. We called Doctors again on the 29th March and he eventually saw a G.P. Who referred him to Hospital. He only lasted 24 hours before being put on life support and died on the Monday. I spoke to one of the Doctors myself on the phone and asked why his blood results did not highlight the abnormalities 2 weeks before with the G.P’s results but was informed that the blood sample had coagulated and had not been repeated.
we as a family are absolutely devastated and his sister can’t sleep without sleeping tablets. We feel that my son was let down by the NHS and we will never know if they had responded quicker if he would have been stronger to start treatment.
Hi Butterdean01 welcome to the forum and I am so very sorry for your loss. My son is the same age and I cant even imagine how that must feel for you.
I don't know what to say to make any of that any better or different but just know that I am thinking of you all. It sounds like you need to ask some questions and have some answers and the only way I can think for that to happen is for you to make a complaint. You can do that by writing to their complaints department at the hospital involved or you can contact the PALS team in the hospital who cna help you to navigate your way through the system and get to the people that you need to speak with.
Again my heartfelt sympathy and sincere condolences to you all. xxx
gail
Hi Butterdean01 sorry for the delay in responding I suppose the best person to know whether to pursue this further or not is you and you alone. What do you feel?
gail
