One of the main reasons I spend my time to write the blog is to generate awareness about Cushing's. Patients like me will continue to suffer needless until everyone understand how this disease impacts us so that they can take good care of us. We deserve that.
This story is preposterous! It's an outrage. What can we Cushing's patients do when even the *medical staff* do not know how to take care of us?!
Birmingham hospital accused of kicking out hallucinating brain tumour teenager in pyjamas
A TEENAGER with a brain tumour was kicked out of hospital by security guards and left wandering the streets hallucinating in his pyjamas, relatives have claimed.
An investigation into how 19-year-old Anthony Riding, a patient under the care of Heartlands Hospital, came to be found on the street in freezing cold weather is now under way.
The desperately ill teen had not been officially discharged from the hospital and he claimed two NHS security guards had escorted him off the premises to nearby Belcher’s Lane and ripped off his patient ID wristband.
Anthony, from Bordesley Green, suffers with rare hormonal disorder Cushing’s Syndrome, caused by a tumour in the pituitary gland next to the brain. Side effects mean that he can suffer psychological disturbances from euphoria to depression. He was admitted as an emergency to the hospital, in Bordesley Green, suffering syndrome-related problems along with mood swings and hallucinations on the night of December 15. But the following morning at 10am, his family found him wandering the streets in his pyjamas and flipflops as temperatures plunged into minus figures. Dad Tony said: “After complaining to the hospital, nurses said there had been some problems during the night with Anthony when he had been swearing and needed restraining. “That is all part of his condition but if they had a problem, someone should have rung us to bring him home or sit with him, not chuck him out on to the street in his pyjamas when he was under their care. “We found him in his pyjama shorts and flip flops, hallucinating. He had been wandering around like that for nearly two hours and had bruises on his arms from where he had been grabbed. It was so cold, it snowed later that day. “Anthony’s specialist nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital was very disappointed in what happened and told me that what other people see as bad behaviour is part of Anthony’s condition, and other medical staff should know that.” The syndrome is so rare that only one in five million children have similar symptoms to Anthony’s and one in every two million adults. Anthony has already undergone two unsuccessful operations on the tumour and is now waiting to see whether a month’s-worth of radiotherapy has helped. A month after his first operation, Anthony met his footballing hero when Paul Gascoigne was visiting the NEC and he gave the teenager words of encouragement. A Heartlands Hospital spokeswoman said: “We take the safety of all of our patients and staff very seriously and are very sorry to learn of the concerns raised by Mr Riding and his family. We will be carrying out a full investigation into the issues they have raised. “We always aim to support our patients and staff and if an individual is consistently using violent and abusive behaviour, we have a responsibility to ensure our staff and patients are protected at all times.”**********************
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Anthony, from one Cushie to another, I wish you success on your radiation or your next surgery. I'm sorry for what has happened to you.
~Melissa
