Day two sitting in emergency

Am really cheesed off at the moment and just HAD A FEW WORDS with the nurses in the emergency department. Seven hours in here yesterday and we arrived back at 10 this morning . It is now 3 and we are still waiting. There was an accident yesterday and the busiest day ever in emergency Yesterday (or so the nurse this morning said ). We are now the only people waiting. Occasionally someone will come in wait a while then go but still we wait and wait. After I lost it! at least someone came out and saw us and explained that the person 'the orthopedic surgeon' that needed to see us was in surgery and it would be an undetermined time before we could be seen and we were not to go away in case they could fit us in for a short time. I said what would have been the harm in someone coming and telling us that instead of just leaving us to sit and sit and sit not know what was going on. We are one person, we could have been informed seeing as we have been waiting in emergency now for 15 hours. Finally at four thirty they decided he needed to be operated on. If you don't have the operation they informed him eventually the sharp bit of bone that is pressing against the skin will go through the skin. What do they think he would choose to go through life with a busted shoulder? Rodger finally got a bed first in emergency and then in a ward. He was scheduled for surgery for late Tuesday afternoon. Here it is nearly s 8 pm and the dr. Has told us it may not happen until tomorrow afternoon as they don't have an aesthetist. The guy in the bed opposite is also a bike rider and usually is the safety rider for the bike leg of the local triathlon but he couldn't do it last year and as coincidence has it Rodger was his replacement rider and did it on his bike last year. What a small world. Rodger has had about one and a half small meals of sandwitches in the last three days and very little to drink. He has to fast in case they can fit him in for his operation. If he is not operated on tonight he will be lucky to end up with a plate of sandwiches.