Hi my name is Joanne and I am from Ontario and I was visiting my family for Christmas and spending my birthday with my twin in January I flew in on December 12th and I had fallen down the stairs on Saturday December 29th and took a bad fall and hurt my back neck and done bad damage to my foot and ankle we went to Sydney hospital around 11:30am there were only a few paceints in the emergency so I thought it wouldn’t be to long of a wait boy was I wrong in a lot of pain and ask a nurse at 4:45pm how long would the wait be as I informed her I am now having headaches she informed me that I would be seen with 45 minutes I said thank you as time went on it became 7pm and still not been looked at as we see another nurse we asked her how long do we still have to wait and told her what the other nurse had told us and she replied that nurse shouldn’t had said anything to u as u will probably be here all night as she said we just had 7 ambulances that just come in didn’t ask me if I needed a drink or how I was feeling I was now getting frustrated and in a lot of pain I was not going to see a doctor for the rest of the night I now decided to leave as I was leaving I informed them and the only thing that staff had said to me was what room are you in I could not believe of how I was treated and left me feeling helpless I now have to get on a plane to come back to Toronto on December 31st as soon as I was off the plane I went straight to St Micheals hospital to be treat as I was there they informed me that I should not have traveled with the injury I had as I could have got a blood clot being that hi in the air so for 3 days I suffered and had to fly home I now have a cast boot on my foot for 3 months and a mild case of whiplash and also will need extensive therapy I feel that I was treated very poorly and my injuries weren’t a lot worse I feel if I got the treatment I needed maybe I would have my foot in a air cast for 3 months or suffered headaches do to whiplash there is no reason why there is only one hospital open known flue season is here and young children crying because they are so sick I share people’s frustration we all deserve health care and I did not receive medical treatment and had no choice but to leave there is no reason what so ever for the government not to have more hospitals open I’m very disappointed and the taxes I pay and the money I spend every year I come down to visit family I will now know my options and Sydney is not one of my vacation options anymore thank you for putting this issue on the news today I know how people feel on a daily basis as I am a visitor from Ontario jojob