Now I’m easily confused but I know I shouldn’t have been in today – but I was off yesterday so now I feel all “over the place”!
And on today’s show we heard about a lady who was very confused after an ambulance crew delivered her to the wrong house and tucked her up in someone else’s bed!
Incredibly Elizabeth Mahoney who’d been battling Covid-19 for 10 weeks at County Hospital in Pontypool, was eventually allowed to go home on 12 March.
However, the 89-year-old’s family became concerned when she failed to arrive home as expected.
Mrs Mahoney’s son, Brian had originally taken a call from the hospital at 1pm to say that his mother was on her way home but after she failed to arrive he naturally raised the alarm, however it was almost 4pm before he learnt that she had in fact been delivered to another property in Newport, eight miles from her own home.
No clear explanation for the error has so far been forthcoming although Mr Mahoney suspects that his mother’s records may have become mixed up with those of another female patient, suffering from dementia and who was also due to be discharged on the same day.
Of course if that was the case, any attempt by Mrs Mahoney to suggest that the house she was being delivered to was not hers, would have simply been construed as dementia from which the other patient was suffering.
Mrs Mahoney had already been baffled when the ambulance crew kept calling her by the wrong name.
Incredibly whoever answered the door at the other property failed to notice that the wrong person had been delivered and simply told the ambulance staff to take her into the bedroom and make her comfortable.
It was only later when they went in to check on her that they realised something was amiss.
Equally puzzling is what happened to the other patient.
The Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust’s director of operations, Mark Harris, said: “We are working closely with colleagues at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board to fully understand the chain of events and establish exactly what happened.
“We have extended a sincere apology to both families concerned for the distress caused, and will continue to liaise directly with those families as the investigation progresses.”
Oops!
A day later than usual, Margaret Mills joined me to tell the tale of an Essex historian, Duffield William Collar from Ingatestone who “went the extra mile”.
And what a mile that was, as he visited every single place he wrote about, thereby covering almost every town and village in the county.
Listen again here to what Margaret had to say about this incredible man:-
See you again next week,
Scott