A woman has told of her horrific 48-hour ordeal while fearing she would be left permanently damaged after an emergency referral to A&E.
In a distressing series of diary entries, she describes two days in two of Greater Manchester’s hospitals, which she says saw her clubbing together with other patients to buy a loaf of bread for the ward, being left overnight in corridors, and finally leaving without any answers about her concerning condition.
Tracey Elliott, 55, who lives in Sale, says she was urgently sent to A&E with a letter from a Bupa doctor suspecting her of having cauda equina syndrome - a rare and severe type of spinal narrowing where all of the nerves in the lower back suddenly become severely compressed.
