
This is a story that will make your teeth itch.
A mate of mine – a younger lad also on the dialysis treatment – was put on the transplant list last Christmas (2022). The consultant asked if he he had any questions, and the lad said he had serious problems and pain with his teeth. And, as anyone who knows knows, a transplant can no way go ahead if there is an infection, especially a dental infection. But the consultant just smiled and said ‘Don’t worry about that. I’ll get you a referral to a Dentist’. He was then told he would have to wait about three years for a sniff of a transplant.
A couple of months later, he sees another consultant at another hospital. And he told me that this one also laughed his dental situation off. ‘Oh, that will be done before you get the call’.
A couple of months after that, he gets a call at 4am. Saying a kidney is there if he wants it. But he still has the teeth infection (and has evidence and X-Rays to confirm it) and is in persistent pain, so he had to turn it down and he is totally gutted.
Point is, had that useless cunt gave him a referral to an NHS Dentist (who are only now just openng their doors to NHS patients this week) in January, he probably would have been done and dusted and in Salford right now under the knife. And the cunt who said the dental infection would be gone before he got a call. Well, he got the call in about three months, not three years. And nothing was done about his gnashers, even though he asked them several times.
He was in a terrible mood yesterday when I saw him, and I don’t blame him. He asked to speak to a senior nurse on the unit to tell her what happened. She didn’t give a toss. Listened, but didn’t give him any sort of answer or support. Just fucked off back inside without saying a word. Only one member of staff said they were sorry, and he is a support worker. I know we have to have this treatment and deal with these people, it’s a case of do or die. But seriously, what a bunch of cunts they can be.
No link, Just him telling me and me witnessing this useless cunt promising the lad a dental referral which never came.
Nominated by : Norman



