McGrath Nurses
i am so angry and sad regarding women that have had surgery and have no one after wards to help them, after my surgery I had a pamphlet that had a McGrath nurse I could contact which i have and they h...
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@Fufan
I didn’t have a McGrath nurse, didn’t know such things existed. So my questions went to my surgeon’s nurse or, best of all, the senior oncology nurse at day oncology. As I understand it, there are simply not enough McGrath nurses to go round and in these trying times I assume their availability will also be curtailed by Covid (having it or, rightly, being in isolation) like many health workers. Dealing with the stuff you’ve never dealt with before can be very frustrating but this site can be helpful. Even helpful people can add to the confusion - during a scan, an operator referred to my ‘insert’. What insert?? Turned out to be a seroma (accumulated fluid) - a whole different story. At the start, most of us don’t know what to ask - and professionals don’t know what we don’t know. It gets better.
I didn’t have a McGrath nurse, didn’t know such things existed. So my questions went to my surgeon’s nurse or, best of all, the senior oncology nurse at day oncology. As I understand it, there are simply not enough McGrath nurses to go round and in these trying times I assume their availability will also be curtailed by Covid (having it or, rightly, being in isolation) like many health workers. Dealing with the stuff you’ve never dealt with before can be very frustrating but this site can be helpful. Even helpful people can add to the confusion - during a scan, an operator referred to my ‘insert’. What insert?? Turned out to be a seroma (accumulated fluid) - a whole different story. At the start, most of us don’t know what to ask - and professionals don’t know what we don’t know. It gets better.