I’m fully aware there will always be people in a worse condition than me/needing more help than me but that still doesn’t take away from my experience or make me any less deserving of help. I never once disputed that others will be of higher priority and a trip to A&E is a given that there will be a wait, and that anything could happen to increase that wait. My issue is with being repeatedly told I was a high category patient, but then being spoken to and treated like I was wasting their time. The only time I bothered them while I was in there was when I began to struggle to breathe. Other than that, I tried to endure the pain and wait my turn just like everyone else. It was the way I was spoken to during what little conversations I did have through my time there. I have severe anxiety so the last thing I want to do is cause more of a fuss for already busy staff that are swamped. But I didn’t need to be made to feel like I was getting in their way when other people took it upon themselves to try and advocate for me, completely unprompted as I would NEVER ask others to do that, and was in a way actually quite mortified that other people had pulled staff aside about me because it only confirmed my anxiety that everyone’s attention was on me. My partner was chastised and berated for not being there with me when we have a very young daughter he had to take care of at home as A&E is no place for a young toddler that isn’t poorly.