Mum 'kicked out of hospital' with perforated bowel

A cancer survivor claims she was “kicked out” of Wishaw General Hospital in agonising pain just hours before medics discovered she was suffering from a potentially life-threatening condition.

- SALLY HIND

Tracy Jardine, from Stonehouse, had only been married for a matter of weeks when she was admitted to the hospital with excruciating pain.

The mum-of-three told how she “felt like she was in labour” and begged a doctor not to discharge her before being sent home.

The 52-year-old carer said she went home “screaming in pain” before medics at a different hospital discovered she had a perforated bowl and a string of other health problems which have resulted in her needing a stoma operation.

She said: “I grabbed that doctor's hand and begged him not to discharge me.

“I genuinely thought I was going to die with the pain I was in.

“No one should ever be made to feel like that.

“It's medical neglect at it’s highest. You wouldn't treat a dog like that.”

Tracy, who beat cancer of the womb in her 20s after undergoing a hysterectomy, went to the Wishaw hospital on September 18 with severe pain in her vagina and side.

The mum was admitted by the gynaecology team, where she underwent a series of examinations and two CT scans over a three-day period as the pain worsened.

But she said the scans failed to reveal the cause, only showing a flare up of a previously-diagnosed bowel condition.