need a rant!

dad went into hospital five days ago with a suspected chest infection.

while on a&e he was in pain but the staff refused to give him his usual dose of morphine. He takes prn oramorph 20ml and is also on long acting twice a day. Dad had been confused and a bit flat prior to admission. When I told a nurse he was in pain and wanted pain killers she said he’d already had this morning (his long acting) and didn’t need any more. By this time it was 7pm!! He’s been taking between 3/4 does breakthrough while at home. The staff just didn’t believe he needed that amount of morphine and the reason he was flat and confused was due to the dose he was on....nothing at all to do with the infection! He was eventually moved to a ward over 24 hours later and still in pain...I contacted his Macmillan nurse in desperation who in turn contacted the acute team who came to see him and sorted things out. 

Much better.

tonight he had breakthrough morphine at 6pm and was in pain again at 7.30pm...my mother requested a dose for him and was refused. The nurse said he could only have it at ten pm...every four hours!! And that she’d get him some ibuprofen!  My mum is so distressed tonight over the whole thing...we are literally climbing the walls!

ive told her I will go with her in the morning and hunt the palliative care team done to see if they can sort it and was also thinking of asking to speak to the sister in charge....

would anyone on here do the same thing? I’m so cross. My poor mother has been led to doubt herself about the doses she was giving him for the first three days and I had to really reassure her and find evidence to say no your right their wrong! 

I’m so stress over the situation. It’s so unfair that a grown man should be reduced to almost begging for pain relief.