No hospital bed

suziewoozie, not quite 12 hours but last op saw me in recovery for 7 hours. Both of my ops were major bowel ops too.

There may be a better staff-patient ratio in Recovery, if it was a big bowel op as you say.
Would you have preferred the op to be postponed because there was no bed available?
Patients generally get wheeled to theatre in their own beds to avoid cross infection so I don’t see how another patient could be tuned out of theirs. I imagine the bed management team were under pressure and juggling as usual until a space in a bay became available

No we are home now suziewoozie. They wouldn't let us go into the recovery area, visitors are not allowed there.

Where you ever left for 12 hours on a trolley in recovery though harrigran. Changing wards is not the same as not having a bed

This is fairly common, twice I have gone to theatre from a waiting room and they haven't been able to tell DH which ward I would be in because it would depend on which ward had a bed when I left recovery.

Well - the nursing staff do have some professional responsibility in this.

This is totally unacceptable. Are you at the hospital now?

She should not be lying in recovery for 12 hours MawB, she should be back in a comfortable bed.

That is totally unacceptable! It would be different if she had been admitted and operated on as an emergency ( although still unacceptable, but in times of bed shortages....) but that they "re-let" her bed in her absence in theatre, I'd be demanding to speak to management at the highest level. The poor nursing staff will not be responsible.

They're just overrun with people, I think.
Too many of us, too few beds.

I presume she was in Recovery first too?
Possibly no bad thing when you are post-op.

Appalling! The person who’s been give her bed should have been moved to a trolley as soon as the error was spotted. Absolutely shocking. I do hope she’s soon more comfortable.