To Dash and Mrx, I swear I will never go public again ARGHHHHH!
I don't care if she has to go into an adults ward but we will be going private.
Anyway we got mucked around most of Thursday before getting a call to come in at 1400 we booked in and she was allowed to go and play until around 1600. We were in a tiny room of six beds plus pull down beds for the parent and 1 toilet for the kids in the room. There was one shower/ bath for all the kids on the ward. The curtains that pulled around the bed looked like they had poo on them it was revolting and we went in as full paying private patients into a major children's hospital.They decided not to numb her head so luckily one of the doctors had an IPAD with new games so she played with that. They shaved a small patch of hair then got a needle thicker then a sewing one and jabbed her about 10 times before they found the spot to leave it. She was then attached to all the cords and it then had to be flushed etc so we got to see brain fluid run out.
Anyway after the worse bandaging I'd ever seen they left her. From 2100 to 2400 the machine stopped working it was only when I noticed that they called in the tech guy so here we were in the middle of the night redoing everything. Around 0800 it stopped working again so they got the junior docs to remove it and they did some other test by pumping extra fluid into her brain. Then undid it all and said they'd watch her for 4 hours.
They came back at lunch time and said all was good even though they only studied her for 13hrs rather then the 36hrs they were meant to and we had to just wait for her Doc to get back to them and we could go. Well I asked them a million questions because I wasn't happy with the way it was being handled. At 1330 I completely had it so I said I wanted to discharge, I got told I'd be going against medical advice as her doctor wanted to see me. 3 times I checked was it me or his juniors he wanted to talk to and I was told it was me.I assumed then that maybe he wanted to tell me something different to the juniors. So we waited from then and the nurses hadn't come near her once since the needle was removed to check her obs or anything they didn't even put an ID band on her and well we waited and waited till 2230 for the doc to arrive. He told me nothing new just said he had an emergency op come in as he had planned to see me after lunch. By then holding my tongue really politely I thought no I'm not going to get into it at this time of night when we were exhausted and still had over an hour to drive home. The thing is they have runners and scrub nurses and he could have used one of them to contact the hospital to let me know he was happy with the results and would ring me on Monday to discuss it further. Instead we waited nine bloody long hours, listening to a poor child come into the bed next to us screaming in pain non stop so I was trying to comfort the mother for most of the evening.
Anyway Jordans ok which is the main thing but I have certainly learnt my lesson, never go near a public one again.
said with tears in my eyes ) has to go back into hospital next week on Thursday to have a minor procedure, though anything do to with the brain is never minor. 
over time you will forget the rest.
I swear she needs to be gagged or something the doctors need to come and view her actions as they are totally inappropriate for a child her age and you can't tell me that all that fluid isn't contributing to that.