Re: Commentary: Nurses deserve first-rate support
Yes, nurses are critical to our good health care and we need them and need to support them as I have been doing, writing letters in support of their needs to our government. And we need to listen to them.
As our frontline health-care providers they know what is needed to continue the excellent level of health care we as Canadians have come to expect.
However, given the lack of health-care knowledge of our political leaders I’m not very hopeful. They seem to be bent on destroying our public health care system in preparations of having a private health-care system rather than a public one.
I have experienced excellent nursing care four times in my life and am very grateful to the nurses involved.
Most recently three years ago I had a sudden unexpected epileptic seizure while going for my second cup of morning coffee.
My wife called 911 and after the first responders arrived I was taken by ambulance to Foothills ER.
I was pretty back to normal behaviour by the time I arrived, thanks to the good care the ambulance crew had given me. The ER doc, after her preliminary exam showing her my normal behaviour, was about to send me home with no further tests.
I told my nurse about being bucked off a horse 10 years prior and being kicked in the head and wondered if the scar tissue resulting from that TBI could be responsible for the seizure.
She took my concerns seriously and went to the ER doc explaining my concerns on my behalf.
All of a sudden I’m no longer being discharged but being subjected to brain C Scan MRI and ultrasounds, then referred to an epileptic doc and as a result on anti-epileptic meds for life.
I owe all that to one really good and caring nurse. Anything I can do to help with continuing support of our nurses please let me know.
Darrel Florence,
Cremona
