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while on Sky A ward I had to have 2 IV antibiotics every 6 hours, some of the nurses back flushed the canula before the first drip, some nurses before the drip, at the change over point, and at the end of the 2 drips, and some nurses only at the end of having the 2 drips, there was never any consistency.
I could end up waiting for a change over of drips anything up to an hour, and one nurse connected the 2nd of the 2 drips one night about 0045hrs and left me connected until 0600hrs when the first of the 2 drips was due again!
the first canula was left in 4 days and the area around it became hot, red, and painful, it took me most of Saturday to convince someone to change it as i was fighting one infection and didn't need another, the Doctor who came to change it first tried in the back of the left hand and ended up blowing the vein, so He put it in the back of the right hand, but He still left the original canula in and said " He'll get a nurse to remove it".
The canula He fitted couldn't have been fitted properly as every drip that went in after fitting burnt, and the back flushing was excruciating, I did let the nurses know, but as I was hopefully going home on the Monday I was prepared to put up with the pain as I was running out of places where the canula could go.