On the topic of panicing mothers... Short story: Sister has had an operation. Things weren't working right, and we realised that the place that had been operated on, was not the nice white bandage that it potentially should have been (Mum couldn't remember what it looked like before, and I'd never seen it.). I reckoned it was fairly serious, if the bandages were left like that, she was going to end up with an infection, which I'm guessing would be fairly serious when she'd just had a lymphectomy (am VERY much open to correction here ;) ). So Mum rang the hospital, gave them the story, was told to go to A&E. She told them to go jump. She wasn't going to take her daughter who'd just had a lymphectomy and told not to get an infection, into a large room with really sick people in it. Sounded slightly mad to her. They eventually told her she could bring my sister in, and she could hear the nurse saying to someone in the background that it was a "panicked mother". That was til my sister walked in, and they started treating her. They didn't say anything, but the look that they gave each other (according to my sister), said it all. Steri strips came off the second the bandage was removed. I think they were quite glad they paid attention to my mum... :D