A friend up the road caught flu a week ago, after several days in bed she phoned the GP who immediately had her ambulanced to hospital (she has an underlying heart condition) and that is where the NHS grinds to a halt. She has pneumonia and was in quite a bad way, on intravenous antibiotics etc.
She has a bed for the night and during the day is turfed out to sit in a chair (still connected to a drip) all day whilst the bed is used for others.
Trying to get her back to local cottage hospital and home asap where we can look after her properly. Currently Mrs Mole is sorting out all her washing and cleaning the house, others walking her dogs and someone else visiting in hospital - how rural communitie help each other.