\n Tammi Radcliffe, 31, from south Cumbria, said she was forced to wait for treatment after being taken to Royal Preston Hospital on August 15 by ambulance.\n<\/p>\n
\n She began experiencing sudden stomach pain while shopping at Asda and said the pain became so severe that she nearly passed out.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tammi Radcliffe was left to lay on a hospital floor for seven hours in excruciating pain. (Image: Corey Radcliffe \/ SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Radcliffe said: “I’ve never felt pain like that in my life and I’m the kind of a person to downplay things, and I’m definitely one to mask my pain in public.\n<\/p>\n
\n “But there was no hiding it, I was uncontrollable, just crying and doubled over in pain in the waiting room begging for pain relief.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The administrator initially believed her symptoms were caused by trapped wind.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tammi Radcliffe was left to lay on a hospital floor for seven hours in excruciating pain. (Image: Corey Radcliffe \/ SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: “I’d had cramps all morning but I just passed it off as trapped wind.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I thought I\u2019d go to ASDA to get myself some paracetamol and some Rennies or Windies or something, but as I was walking around, the pain just became so severe.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I started to lose my vision, the light faded and I felt super lightheaded – like I was about to pass out.\n<\/p>\n
\n “So I went to the pharmacy, and told them that I was on my own and didn\u2019t know what else to do.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They sat me down, and they ended up calling an ambulance for me and then sat with me and waited as the pain was just becoming more severe and I was crying.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Tammi Radcliffe was left to lay on a hospital floor for seven hours in excruciating pain. (Image: Corey Radcliffe \/ SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
\n Paramedics gave her IV paracetamol before taking her to hospital, where she arrived at 4pm and was initially triaged.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tammi Radcliffe was left to lay on a hospital floor for seven hours in excruciating pain. (Image: Corey Radcliffe \/ SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
\n However, she said she was not seen by a doctor for seven hours and was left lying on the floor in the waiting room.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her husband, Corey, said: “I asked for more pain medication at least six times in the space of two hours and sometimes they didn\u2019t even acknowledge us asking.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tammi Radcliffe was left to lay on a hospital floor for seven hours in excruciating pain. (Image: Corey Radcliffe \/ SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
\n “I was asking for her to be reassessed and re-triaged but all we got in response was that she had already been triaged so go and sit down because she is where she needs to be.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Tammi was so exhausted and unwell that she ended up lying on the floor of the A&E department under a wheelchair to block out the bright hospital lights.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We were there for hours before her temperature was actually checked.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tammi Radcliffe was left to lay on a hospital floor for seven hours in excruciating pain. (Image: Corey Radcliffe \/ SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
\n “By then it had reached 39 degrees and she was shaking.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He said that despite her high temperature and apparent distress, she was not given stronger medication until 9pm.\n<\/p>\n
\n Blood tests later revealed raised infection markers.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Radcliffe said: “Despite how unwell she was, it took about seven hours for her to see a doctor.”\n<\/p>\n
\n She was finally seen by a doctor at 11pm and prescribed IV antibiotics, but did not receive them until 2.30am.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Radcliffe said she was moved to the gynaecology ward around 3am and discharged later that day without a diagnosis.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: “Doctors weren’t 100% sure what was causing my pain because they have to do swabs and an ultrasound scan.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tammi Radcliffe was left to lay on a hospital floor for seven hours in excruciating pain. (Image: Corey Radcliffe \/ SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
\n “We haven’t actually got any formal diagnosis currently, and we had to wait four days for the scan which is pretty hard considering it’s an emergency situation.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Tammi is still suffering extreme abdominal and pelvic pain.\n<\/p>\n
\n A Lancashire Teaching Hospitals spokesperson said: “We would always encourage any patients or relatives who have concerns about their care to raise these with the clinical teams treating them at the time so, where possible, these can be resolved in real time.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Where this is not possible, or where patients feel their concerns were not addressed, we would encourage them to get in touch with our Patient Experience and PALS team so that we can fully explore what happened and why and adopt any potential learning.\n<\/p>\n
\n “In this instance, we are in direct contact with the family and are sorry that they have concerns about some aspects of the care received.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We will fully investigate the issues the family have raised through our formal complaints process and respond directly back to them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tammi Radcliffe, 31, from south Cumbria, said she was forced to wait for treatment after being taken to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-746419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}