Doctors sent me home with antibiotics – now I can’t use my arm | UK | News

After feeling well, a man who was looking for medical aid and prescribed only antibiotics has now lost the use of his right arm in a tragic way. Michael Gwyher found himself in Morriston Hospital A & E after visiting the GP on December 4, 2024.

Thanks to the nature of his infection, a Michael male from Swansea asked GP, but none of his local surgery was present. As a result, it was directed to another surgery with male doctors in the network. However, he claims that no diabetic tests were performed and sent home with only antibiotics.

Diabetic Michael is usually subjected to diabetic tests during routine GP visits. “That day felt a lot more hurry,” Michael explained. “Normally they did not control for diabetes. He said it was an infection, but he was not serious and asked me to come back in a week.”

However, as the night fell, Michael’s condition worsened and called 111, Wales online.

Michael, “They put me directly to the practice of the nurse, they usually call you back, but this time they put me,” Michael shared. “We haven’t been on the phone for a long time, and these things are quite serious, we’ll send you to the hospital.”

However, Michael was told that there was no ambulance for at least 10 hours that day, and therefore a taxi was held to take him to Morriston Hospital. In March of this year, the inspectors found urgent improvements in A & E of Morriston Hospital after finding “important patient safety concerns”. The plans to expand the hospital were announced in August this year.

“Like this [taxi] He came, but I don’t remember anything from the hospital about 10, 11 days later, “he said. I went to the respiratory arrest at three o’clock in the morning (5 December) and moved me to YBU. “

After having an intensive care unit, Michael said that there was “10 different surgeries” to remove infections and that he was set to a warned coma.

“They took me out of the coma on December 10, but a week later I was still under heavy sedation.” “So I started to return around December 14th, and after that they realized that there was a problem with the arm.”

However, he claims that even after he regained his consciousness, no one “accepts” the arm injury. “I did not take any physios or a real care until it came to the Tempest ward.”

Michael emphasizes that when he goes to the hospital, he has nothing wrong with his arm and advised a completely different topic.

“I walked perfectly with my arm and I didn’t go to my arm for the morning doctor’s appointment,” he said. “I wasn’t injured in my arm, there was no disease on my arm, so when I woke up, it was quite shocked.

“I was a little surprised for a few days, but when I finally came, I was broken, because the worst fear that no one can have is to lose a limb, isn’t it? I am very disappointed.

“When I was in the intensive care unit, there was a lot of intensive care units. I was seeing something, he heard something, and it was really scary.

Michael suspects something when it is under sedation in the medical facility that causes the right arm to be paralyzed.

“For eight days in sedation, Yaha Yaha was just extending or very long surgery in more life, they can’t think of which element it was.”

“But I experienced a brachial plexus injury from the compression of the nerves on my right arm, and permanently paralyzed my ability to use my right arm completely.” He also claims that the hospital could not inform its relatives when accepted and caused “trouble”.

Michael’s brother was aware that he felt bad because he was the person who accompanied Michael on December 4th. Just before going to the hospital, Michael sent a text message to his brother who informed his visit to the hospital.

“He had to call more than one department to try and get answers, and when I was in surgery at that time,” Michael explained. “But for most of the first day, they weren’t interested in him.”

When Michael’s brother asked why he was not in contact, the hospital said he was caused by old records. However, Michael argues that he has documents showing that his brother provided the current contact information on December 5 in his notes.

“They had no reason to call him, but they didn’t, and they called them, causing a lot of trouble in the family because they didn’t know what was going on or where I was.” He said.

Michael contracted to multiple drug resistance (MDR) and Covid with other infections during his stay in the hospital, which meant that he had to stay in the hospital for about two months.

After being discharged at the end of January, he was given a letter of sincerity, which he stated that he acknowledged that he was “a serious thing, but did not accept responsibility.”

“Since I left the hospital, they helped at the beginning, but they did not make an appointment for neurology, did not make an appointment.

Michael waited for a single physiotherapy session between January -Nisan, the second appointment was planned two weeks later, but he faced more delay for additional sessions until August.

Swansea Bay University Health Board launched an investigation on the issue and a serious case examination was conducted in January 2025.

Despite Michael’s attempts to earn update on the progress of the investigation, he claims that the last communication he received from them was in May 2025 and claims that the health committee has stopped responding to investigations since then.

“This means a little closure, maybe they’re going to try to make things better to admit that something is going wrong and not to come to someone else.” “The escape of more accountability is part of it for me.”

Swansea University Medical Board Spokesperson replied: “We are very sorry to have worried about Mr. Gwyther’s care. This issue is now being investigated, we will not be able to comment more now. However, we will respond directly to Mr. Gwyther after the completion of our investigation.”