THIS reminds me of the time my wife was booked into the Princess Royal for an operation on her leg, the day we walked into the ward they showed us the bed which comes with a bedside cabinet.

My wife opened the cabinet and there was a old apple core in the cabinet, we asked a cleaner who happened to be in the ward could she remove it but she said that was the nurses’ domain. As there wasn’t a nurse nearby I removed it.

My wife noticed a large suitcase at the end of the bed and as the lady in the bed next to us was going that morning she asked if she wanted it out, only too be told it was not hers.

As we were told they preform a deep clean around the bed prior to a new patient moving in, how the hell was this suitcase still there and how long had it been there?

The icing on the cake was a phone call I received from London Victoria Station asking if I would like to collect my wife’s X-ray as they had been found left on a train to Portsmouth.

I phoned the hospital and told them about the call and asked them to retrieve them.

I never got an explanation or apology but thankfully the X-ray was not too personal for my wife.

A Gumbrill, Chapel Mews, Hove