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“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. You wouldn’t treat a dog like that.”Sally Hind<\/strong> Deputy Chief Reporter and Parul Sharma<\/strong><\/a> GAU audience writer<\/p>\n

15:13, 16 Oct 2025<\/p>\n

\"TracyTracy Jardine is making a complaint to the NHS after her treatment at NHS Wishaw.(Image: DAILY RECORD)<\/p>\n

A cancer survivor claims she was “kicked out” of a Scottish hospital whilst enduring excruciating agony just hours before doctors discovered she was battling a potentially fatal condition.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tracy Jardine, from Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire, had only been wed for a few weeks when she was rushed to University Hospital Wishaw suffering unbearable pain. The mother-of-three described how she “felt like she was in labour” and pleaded with a doctor not to send her home before being discharged.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 52-year-old carer said she returned home “screaming in pain” before medics at another hospital found she had a perforated bowel along with a series of additional health <\/a>issues which have left her requiring a stoma operation. She said: “I grabbed that doctor’s hand and begged him not to discharge me.<\/p>\n

\"TracyTracy just got married in summer 2025(Image: DAILY RECORD)<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Tracy, who defeated cancer of the womb in her twenties following a hysterectomy, attended the Wishaw hospital on September 18 with severe pain in her vagina and side. The mum was taken in by the gynaecology team, where she endured a series of examinations and two CT scans over a three-day period as the agony intensified, reports the Daily Record<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But she said the scans failed to identify the cause, only showing a flare-up of a previously-diagnosed bowel condition. She said: “I was given minimal pain relief. I felt like I was a drug addict begging ‘please help me, I’m in so much pain’. I’ve delivered children with no pain relief so I thought I had a good pain threshold, but this was something else.”<\/p>\n

On the third day, Tracy said she was given antibiotics and moved to a “side room” where she was seen by a doctor. She recalled: “The doctor came around and said ‘I think you’re ok to go home’. I said ‘I’m not’. I told him ‘the pain is worse than what you think it is, there’s got to be something wrong.<\/p>\n

\"TracyTracy Jardine defeated cancer of the womb in her twenties(Image: DAILY RECORD)<\/p>\n

“He said ‘I can’t find anything wrong with you’. They said it was not a gynaecology issue. But they had a duty of care to me. How can you send me home in the pain I was in? I begged that doctor to send me to the bowel team. He said he’d spoken to them and they thought it was fine for me to go home.<\/p>\n

“I had my holdall and had to hobble out of that ward, breaking my heart, to get a taxi to bring me home. I was sent away without so much as an antibiotic. I was crying, screaming in pain all the way home. I hoped the painkillers I had would do until the morning until I could see the doctor, but they didn’t. I rolled about my living room floor. In the morning I went straight to the doctor and begged him not to send me back to Wishaw, so he sent me to Hairmyres.”<\/p>\n

Tracy revealed that she bypassed A&E and was immediately given morphine and taken for a CT scan upon admission. She shared: “I was told I had a perforated bowl and my infection markers were through the roof. Hairmyres made me feel like I was being looked after properly. It was like they finally believed the pain I was in. I cannot fault the doctors and nurses.”<\/p>\n

\"GeneralGeneral view of the University Hospital Wishaw, 50 Netherton St, Wishaw.(Image: Tony Nicoletti\/Daily Record)<\/p>\n

As her health deteriorated, Tracy underwent additional scans which she says revealed more complications each time. The mum revealed that doctors discovered a cyst on both ovaries and a collection of pus in her fallopian tube.She also suffered from bleeding, believed to have been caused by a burst abscess.<\/p>\n

It emerged that Tracy, who works night shifts at a care home, had been resistant to antibiotics for weeks, resulting in her being administered specialist medication intravenously. She shared: “I was told if I’d been discharged with the wrong antibiotics I could have died.”<\/p>\n

Further examinations showed Tracy was fighting an E.coli infection before medics found she had a bowel-vaginal fistula, a rare opening that forms between the organs. This is thought to have caused her initial “diverted pain”.<\/p>\n

After nearly three weeks, Tracy was discharged from Hairmyres last week and is now recovering at home. However, she has been left unable to work and has filed a formal complaint with the health board.<\/p>\n

She said: “I have to go back into Hairmyres to get a stoma operation in the coming weeks. I’m so angry and hurt. This can’t happen to another person again. I only got married in July. When I look at my wedding photographs and look at me now, I don’t even look like the same person after what I’ve been through.”<\/p>\n

Stephen Peebles, Deputy Director of Acute Services at NHS<\/a> Lanarkshire, said: “While we cannot discuss individual patients we would encourage this lady to contact our patient affairs team to discuss her concerns.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I grabbed that doctor’s hand and begged him not to discharge me. I genuinely thought I was going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[1204,105,21373,4348,2207,211,712,16,15,165450],"class_list":{"0":"post-504669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-cancer","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-services","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-hospitals","13":"tag-nhs","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wishaw-hospital"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115384985082831909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}