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  • Woman Warns Others About Claire’s Accessories

    Brenda Campos is trying to spread awareness after her child had a bad ear-piercing experience at Claire’s accessories.

    Campos said “Do not get ur kids ears pierced in Claire’s Accessories this is what’s happened to r Poppy’s ears she paid £50 followed what she was supposed to do now she’s got to have an operation 2moro to get them out I’m fuckin fuming😡😡😡😡 she’s not the only one a few people have had bad experiences 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡PLEASE SHARE”.

    Claire’s accessories only pierce ears with guns,

    Piercing guns use stud earrings of a standard length. People with thick earlobes may find that their new earrings are tight when lobes swell after piercing. They will have little to no post length to use for expansion to relieve the pressure.

    A professional body piercer has access to many styles of initial jewellery that won’t inhibit comfort or the healing process.

    Piercing Guns Cause Blunt Force Trauma to earlobe
    Most guns force blunt-ended studs through the tissue of your ears, a painful process that can cause damage. The shock isn’t typically a huge issue for the lobes, but why risk it? A piercing professional will pierce you with razor-sharp hollow needles that pierce through areas quickly without damaging the surrounding tissue. This process is usually less painful than using a piercing gun.

    People who have worked in some retail establishments that use piercing guns often say they began to pierce after just a short amount of time and  training, sometimes only a few hours. With that little training, how can piercers be aware of the sanitary precautions that must be followed to prevent contamination? Or how to instruct for proper aftercare?

    Have you had a bad or even great experience with Claire’s accessories? If so let us know what happened in the comments section down below

  • I’m Being Left Like This, No Anus And No Pain Relief

    A lady named Tanya-Rebecca Evans has taken to Facebook to beg for help and share her story.

    Tanya said in her post:

    This Is My Story..

    I Had An Episiotomy.

    She Also Cut Into My Rectum & Didn’t Stitch Me Up.

    So I Was Left With No Anus After A few Years Of Incontinence. 

    Then I Was Severely Constipated For 18 Months. After Months Of My GP Begging Surgeons To See Me.

    I Went For A Second Opinion. 

    I Was Dying My Body Turned Yellow.

    & I Was Throwing Up Poo. 

    I Was Seen On Friday I Had Surgery Monday Morning. On 10th February 2014 

    & I Had My Loop Ileostomy..

    Because I’d Be Left For So Long..

    They Couldn’t Just Fix My Anus.

    I Also Have 3 Bowel Prolapses.

    Because I’ve Had My Bag For Life For 3 Years My Anus & Bowel Needs To Be Removed Due To It Dying. Which Puts Strain On My Other Organs.

    Also I’ll Be Having Mesh Stitched Inside Me To Repair My Strangulating Parastomal Hernia 

     & I’ll Be Having A Brand New Stoma.

    So I Seen My Surgeon In June!!

    & Was Told To Come Off The Morphine 

    & Steroids & He’d Do My Surgeon In August. (Summer Holiday). 

    So I’ve Had Scans & Now My Pre Op. Bloods Are Fine. 

    Now I’ve Been Told My Surgeon Is Retiring In November!! Having A Month Off Then Back Part Time.

     So Can’t Do My Surgery Then.

    I Went To My GP & Because There’s Nothing She Can Do She Sent Me To Hospital. 

    I Seen My Surgeon & 3 Weeks Ago He Agreed That He’d Operate Before He Retires. .

    I Was Rung This Morning. 

    He’s Fully Book For October With Cancer Patients. No Other Surgeon Wants To Do My Surgery Because I’m Still Under Him.. Until January. 

    Is There Anything I Can Do?!

     I’m Just Being Left To Suffer With Out Pain Relief & Steroids & My Parastomal Is Strangulating 4x A Day.. 

    I’m Also A New Mum.

    & My Fiance Has To Do Everything For Me..

    Please Share Away! <3


    Can you imagine being left like this? 

    I'm Being Left Like This, No Anus And No Pain Relief
    I’m Being Left Like This, No Anus And No Pain Relief

    We hope she gets the operation she needs as soon as possible. 

     

  • Baby Left To Die In NHS Hospital

    There is no denying that the NHS is under pressure. Who can forget the red alert meltdown in January? Almost half of NHS trusts across England declared major hospital alerts in one week. But it appears things have been going awry for a long time. As the NHS is forced to keep cancelling non-emergency operations to try and recover control, vulnerable people are being ignored and neglected. And only now are we understanding the full effects of all of this.
    Kayden Bancroft

    Kayden Bancroft was 20 months old when he died at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH) in April 2016. He’d been waiting three days for life-saving surgery. After falling and hurting his mouth, Bancroft was taken to Stepping Hill Hospital where it was discovered he had a hole in his diaphragm, and part of his bowel had burst through the hole. Staff asked for him to be transferred to RMCH, but were denied as there was no intensive care bed available.

    He was transferred the following day to an ordinary ward and his surgery was repeatedly delayed. He then suffered a cardiac arrest, with nurses struggling for 30 minutes to resuscitate him.
    Speaking of the trauma, Bancroft’s grandmother Julie Rowlands said:
    “His care was appalling. He was basically put in a room, and left. And all we got, nearly every day, was, ‘He’s not having the operation today, he’s not having the operation today.’ They were coming up with excuses, ‘There’s no bed, or a car crash victim’s come in.’ That’s all we got, all the time we were there, was excuses”.

    Speaking of the hospital’s failure, she added:

    “After his cardiac arrest the doctors tried to bring him round, but he was without oxygen for almost half an hour. They took him to theatre, but I knew it was too late. It was four-and-a-half hours before they brought him back and they apologised there and then and said as a hospital they had failed him”.
    A preventable death

    As the family’s lawyer Stephen Clarkson highlighted after the inquest into the hospital’s failure: “The real tragedy here is that Kayden’s death was entirely preventable”.
    During the incident, it was revealed that senior surgeons repeatedly tried to warn trust management about the shortage of emergency operating theatres. Hospital consultant Mr Khalil also told the BBC: “On Thursday [two days after being admitted to RMCH], one of the surgeons had offered to cancel one of his elective lists, so that he could do Kayden as an emergency, but did not receive the support that he needed. That should not have happened.”
    The trust told the BBC that it had no record of this request. It said:
    “We believe that there are sufficient theatres in our children’s hospital to cope with the demand for emergency cases; however, on occasions some children do have to wait for urgent surgery while emergency surgery takes place”.

    The trust added:
    “The trust would like to make it clear that at no time has it directed clinical staff to prioritise elective over non-elective care. As is the case at most similar hospitals, elective cases are regularly cancelled to accommodate emergency patients”.

    Continued cancellations

    The consequences of cancelling operations and appointments are blatantly clear. But thanks to government underfunding, the NHS has been left without any other options. In 2016, 20,000 eye appointments were cancelled at Shropshire’s hospitals alone. Chief Executive of the NHS Simon Stevens has also revealed this is only likely to continue, as patients must wait longer for non-urgent operations as a ‘trade off’ for improvements in other areas.

    It’s only so long before an urgent case like Bancroft’s gets overlooked in the chaos.

  • Gastrochisis, we were so scared we would lose our baby

    This is a touchy subject, not many people have heard of or know what Gastrochisis is. I thought I would raise awareness by sharing my story with all you amazing women.

    I fell pregnant at 16 years old and was so scared as I didn’t know what to do. I told my boyfriend and then told family who weren’t happy to start with but were so supportive.


    We went for our 1st scan in March 2016 and were so excited to see our wee gem.


    We never noticed in the scan picture that anything was wrong but the radiographer did so they sent us out the room and made us wait for answers.


    When they came back they told us we needed to go and see a specialist doctor to see what the problem was. We went ahead to the appointment, we found out our baby boy had a condition called gastrochisis. 


    We had no clue what it was or how it happens. We were so scared that we would lose our baby.


    Gastrochisis is when your baby is growing inside you, their wee body’s are forming and coming together but if the baby forms and doesn’t come together properly it can result in your baby having Gastrochisis. For my baby it meant that was his bowel that would be on the outside of his body when he was born. This would mean that when he was brought into this world he had to get an operation to fix it, this was a lot to take in. We went home and looked it up and read all the horror stories.


    We were brave and I was induced on the 28th August 2016 (21 days before I was due). We had our little boy on the 31st August 2016. This is when it got hard for us all. Our baby was rushed away from us the second he was born and we were not allowed to hold him until he had his operation. 3 nights later we were allowed our first cuddle and seeing our boy fighting for his wee life broke our hearts. Everyday was a struggle, infection after infection, being sick constantly. We finally got to try him with some milk, just 1ml. 1ml of milk! And he couldn’t keep it down. After 8 weeks of trying the doctors changed his milk. Now he was on this new milk and he slowly improved! 3 months later and our little boy was happy, healthy and smiling. On the 25th November 2016 we were told we can come home. He fought his battle, proper little trouper! If anybody has ever been through the same thing I’d like to hear your stories!


    Thankyou for reading much appreciated x

  • Her Leg Was Dragging- Hip Dysplasia

    On the 24th July 2015, I gave birth to our daughter, she was absolutely perfect in every way, BUT when we were discharged from the hospital, we weren’t given a sufficient Hip Check, at her six week check up, we were told there was absolutely nothing wrong with her hips and that she would grow to be able to walk, crawl and stand with ease. ( At this point we had never even heard of hip dysplasia).

    Fast forward to 6months old, We noticed when she was crawling, her left leg was dragging, and when she was using her jumperoo, she’d always slouch to the side, we thought that maybe she just liked to weight bear on the right side, but it continued, i booked an appointment with our local gp who in turn was concerned and sent us to the hospital for an xray of the hip/pelvis.
    It was confirmed that our little girl had Developmental Dysplasia of the Left hip,the right was absolutely fine, and  because her hip socket was so shallow, her left femur was growing out of place ( in fact she didnt even have a fully formed hip socket or ball!) and was a lot longer than the right. 
    Just before her 1st birthday, we were sent to Derriford hospital, where they tried to performed what they call a closed reduction of the hip socket, they put dye into the hip and found that there was a LOT of cartialage that was in the way, so we were sent home with another date for a more complex operation.
    In September 2016, Our girl underwent a 6 hour operation to cut her femur to size, they removed most of the cartialage, and created a whole new hip really! after this, she was put into a spica cast, a type of cast that allows the hip to heal at the correct angle ( She seemed to have frog legs!) this was for a timeframe of 8 weeks, we were told she would not be able to crawl, or climb, but that didnt stop her at all! 

    Our surgeon was incredibly suprised! It was really hard for us when she was casted, we couldnt get her in the car, we had to make her pram suitable for her and we needed a lot of equipment to help her out, Luckily, she never ever made a fuss! 


    When it came to our next appointment, they took her cast off!!! 

    i dont think ive ever cried at a pair of legs in my whole life, i dont know weather it was that i had the whole of my baby back or the fact id noticed her two HUGE scars ( they have faded luckily).


    She was wobbly for weeks, it was like having a newborn all over again! 


    Despite all of this, 2 months later, she stood up and walked! which amazed us even more! 
    Unfortunatley, 6 months after casting we went back for an xray, and there is still one last operation to go, we are prepared for this, and know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel! 

    I could not thank her surgeon enough, he’s kept us in the loop,he’s  given support and most of all,he’s  helped our baby!!

    I just wanted to share this, as i think hip dysplasia is still really unheard of, and i really really hope that mummies and daddies going through this now, will read this and realise, our babies are incredible, brave and damn right awesome! There is a light at the end of the tunnel!