October 2, 2007

Ivor Catt wrote:

I now have to rewrite the key points, but do not have time (only 32 minutes left) to put them all down.
Please upload whatever I now write, warts and all, onto a website.

Ivor


Following a relapse after prostate operation, Ivor Catt was taken by ambulance in the middle of the night to Walsall manor Hospital, West Midlands, England.

After consultation, he was discharged and take by ambulance back to his friend Robert Whiston's house 28 Penryn Road Walsall.

next night, at the same time, 3am, Ivor Catt was again collected by ambulance and taken to the same hoispital. he was admitted, and the treatment in A&E was incomptent. During that "treatment", the only "consultation" between Catt and any hospital staff - doctors etc. - occurred. Thereafter, Catt was never allowed a chance to deliver information (including symptoms and newly arriving symptoms) to any doctor or any other staff. The hospital records should confirm this. The incompetent treatment on that first night led to urine covering the whole floor in the large toilet/shower room and all over the main walk aisle between the rows of beds. The oncompetent doctor did not discuss his case with Catt after the urine covered everything, althoug he was present later.

Ivor Catt was then allowed to telephone Robert Whiston, who refused to come down to the hospital.

Next day Catt around midday Catt was transferred to what was described at "Urology" Ward, but was in fact "Vascular". That night, he was woken with rapidly escalating pain (due to blockage to the bladder by blood clots "irrigation" exacerbated by a massive amount of wind in the alimentary canal due to extreme constipation. [There was never an opportunity to get information of the existence of constipation into hospital records. Catt continued to try to get this, and to get treatment for constipation, which was denied throughout. I later learned (not from the hospital) thatthe standard Senna and liquid twice per day for every single patient in a hospital is apparently doubled and further increased if there is evidence that it is insufficient.]

At 3am Catt was woken with rapidly excalating pain due to blockage of the bladder and massive wind in the alimentary canal (colon/rectum). The two nurses on duty were Indian 50 year old from kerala 5 years before with husband and teenage daughters, and a large white goung English girl. Both told me to not upset the other patients in the ward, but refused treatment. The white told me that the Indian had other patneits to attend to. The writing and screaming by Catt continued, and finally after a long time the Indian borught a 4in x 1in syringe. She pump[ed a amll amount of water into the bladder and then extracted two syringes full. Thihs relived the pressure and the pain, and flow out of the bladder recommenced. Catt collapsed into sleep, at aorund 4am.

Midday next day when in the shower a nurse acked through the doow if she could pack his posessions for a move in Catt's absebse.. Catt agreed. at midday the pain escalated rapidly. Catt asked for the syringe and for an enema, but these wwere refused, around midday. He was wheeled in a chair to the third ward (Urology, Nightingale), in rapidly increasing pain. On arrival, he sasked the girl moving him for an enema, but this was ignored. Catt (who studied fluid mechanics at Cambridge) manipulated the various tubes and duislodges the block, so rapidly relieving the pain and restarting the "irrigation" flow out of the bladder,. (It had at all times been successfully entering the bladder!) Catt warned that there was greeat danger of a further crisis at 3am, but his warnings were ignored.

That evening Catt was allowed to telephone his friend Dr Harold Hillman, a GP and also emeritus Reader in Bioneurology at Surrey University. Catt insisted on holding to the phone and talking to for an hour - many phones in the hospital did not work -  Catt urged him to telephone the hospital, but he did not do so.

[Catt did not know who was the Consultant Surgeon in charge of him and only found out a few minutes before discharge a day or two later. Catt did not know the names or appearance of any members of Gupta's "team". The first time Catt saw any of them was minutes before he was discharged.]

At 3am Catt was woken by rapidly excalating pain from blocked bladder. He was refused treatment and told to stop upsetting the other patients. he was wirithing in pain and screaming. A few hours before Hillman had told him that his bladder owuld not burst under such treatment.

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The two nurses later refused to anter anything in the their report, and refused to give him their names. This led to Catt leaving the ward and trying to leave the hospital at 3am, with the help of his partner Eve.