A well-known Irish comedian has hailed the staff at St. James’s Hospital in Dublin for their quick action while treating his mum after an accident at home.
Jason Byrne took to Twitter to record a short clip thanking all the doctors and nurses at St. James’s for the brilliant care they provided his mother.
He explained that she had taken a fall in the bathroom at home, hit her head and broke her arm.
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She needed to be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, where she was seen by medics in a very reasonable period of time.
In his short video, Jason Byrne said: “Feel good story for you on the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Me mam fell in the jacks and she whacked her head and she broke her arm.
“So then she had to call an ambulance like yesterday, and they got her in St. James’s A&E.
“Thank you to St. James’s, all the doctors and nurses were amazing.
“I met her there. Like she only had to wait a couple of hours, then she was seen, x-rayed, CT scan, then a couple more hours and they reset her arm and then they had her in a cast.
“Then she was back to us and into the car and then home. The whole thing in total took around seven hours and well done to all the doctors and nurses because you always get such a hard time”.
He then went on to acknowledge the incredibly difficult job doctors and nurses have when dealing with some rowdy patients in A&E.
He said: “Jesus Christ, the shit you’ve had to put up with when I was in there. A fella was brought in with half his head missing and the guards brought in.
“Then the guards handed him to the security guard and he was boxing the head of everybody and then the security guard had to let him go into A&E.
“Well, I dunno how yous do it, well done. And thanks a million because me ma’s at home now, her head is a bit busted, she looks like, I dunno a blueberry sitting on the couch with her arm but. But thank you all the doctors and nurses in St. James’s A&E”.
Concluding his recorded thank you, Byrne said: “See, it’s not always a bad story. Fair play to yous because yous are the ones that get the hard time on the radio”.
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