A Dublin woman felt she had no choice but to leave hospital early after a "horrific experience" in Connolly Hospital.
Sandra suffers with Crohn's disease and is regularly in and out of hospital but her most recent stay left her with no choice but to ask her doctors to discharge her early.
The Clonsilla native was allegedly moved out of her bed to a chair where she was left sitting for eight hours with little explanation or hope of discharge.
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The exhausted woman told Dublin Live that a series of bad planning and constant moving made her feel like she would be better off at home.
Sandra said: "On the Saturday night myself and another girl were pulled out of our beds at 11:30pm to be moved down to the surgical day ward.
"We spent two nights there at the nurse's station. Phones were ringing all the time. On the Sunday night we were told to pack our bags because we were getting moved the following morning.
"We were brought down to another ward and I was put on a chair. I was given no time to shower and no breakfast. The room we were brought to had no beds and I was only given a chair. There were no shower facilities in this room.
"There was nothing at all on my medical forms to say that I was going home or anything like that.
"The staff in the word could not offer me an explanation as to why I was moved to a chair when I had no definite date for discharge.
"I stayed there until 3:30pm. The doctors came in and apologised. They couldn't believe that I was actually moved from a ward into a chair. They apologised profusely for keeping me sitting in a chair for so long with no bed.
"I'm waiting to have surgery on my spine and I was still fairly sick at this stage.
"I was due to see a dietician at 10am it was not until 3:30pm that I was told no dietician was organised. I had not slept in two nights.
"At this stage I was exhausted and said that the best thing for me to do then was to go home. The doctors and nurses were brilliant but I wasn't going to go on a trolley.
"I'm absolutely disgusted at the way I was treated. This is all down to bed management. Taking two people out of their beds at 11:30pm is unacceptable.
"The other girl was asleep. They took her out of her bed and told her to pack up.
Sandra's health is still poor but she is worried about the next time she has to go into hospital.
She said: "I'm still on tablets, injections and all. I just said to them that I had gone through enough and that I had to go home."
Dublin Live have contacted Connolly Hospital for comment.
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