Gloucestershire hospitals collaborated with Cheltenham community nurses

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Lucy Meszaros was known to suffer with severe faecal impaction. It's documented in her GP notes and hospital records. She was under the continence service and had twice-weekly bowel irrigation at home.
Lucy also suffered with years of faecal leakage from her vagina, years of kidney stones and had urosepsis more than 35 times.
Both Cheltenham General and Gloucester Royal hospitals regularly refused to provide much needed bowel care during hospital admissions.
Urosepsis was rarely treated until she had infection induced seizures, tia's strokes, heart attacks and even a cardiac arrest. Many of these occurred in hospital at such times when she was considered medically fit for discharge.
Many doctors acknowledged - and GP's actually confirmed - that Lucy "is asymptomatic" and "has high resistance to oral antibiotics", yet they still kept throwing them at her as if they were sweets.
The occasions when Lucy was eventually treated with IV antibiotics, the faecal discharge from her vagina fought against them. This is why she would initially seem to improve but then drastically deteriorate and the infection escalating to life threatening episodes. These people did not have the common sense to accept this, regardless of the fact they had years of evidence of it.
Before Lucy was discharged from her last admission she had five infection induced seizures. We were not informed about two of them but later discovered these documented on her discharge summary.
She had three in one evening within a matter of hours during my sons visit. These have not been not documented.
My son alerted staff about the first seizure. They were approximately10 feet away but laughed at him and continued talking amongst themselves.
He pressed the alarm, which resulted in an HCA putting her face into his and shouting at him. Staff did not attend to Lucy for nine minutes.
Staff were extremely lackadaisical in attending to the second and third seizures.
Lucy was discharged unsafely and and had another infection induced seizure the following day and several more followed. She still had urosepsis.

As you can hear in the second video Lucy was in excruciating pain. Yet she was denied bowel care by Cheltenham district nurses after our carer reported them for using tiny dressings on a large Grade 4 pressure ulcer. The adhesive border of these dressings were sticking to the open wound, also allowing urine and faeces to enter it.
District nurses were callous in their decision to withdraw bowel care and were well aware of the pain and suffering because Lucy couldn't empty her bowels.
Lucy died with a massively distended stomach not long after.
Quote; "People with severe bowel obstruction most often survive a week or two. Sometimes it's only a few days, sometimes as long as three weeks. With fluids, survival time may be extended by a few weeks or even a month or two" Unquote.
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