Mum-of-one Charlene Lynch, who suffers from Hodgkins Lymphoma, was admitted to Connolly Hospital in Dublin when she required emergency surgery on her foot.
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"I was crying because I was puking so much with the medication and I said, ‘You haven’t even offered me anything to eat’"
But, instead of being sent to a post-op recovery ward after the procedure, a bed shortage meant she was abandoned in a hospital storage room and given a curtain for a blanket.
Charlene, who has been having chemotherapy for her stage 2b cancer, told the Irish Mirror: “To treat someone like this who is actually very, very ill, to put them in a storage room, it’s ridiculous."
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“I got told there wasn’t enough beds and it was the only thing that they could do… so I’ve just been lying on a trolley in the storage room for three days.
“I didn’t even get asked did I want anything to eat because the people didn’t even know I was here in this room, they just by-passed me. I said it to them.
"I was crying because I was puking so much with the medication and I said, ‘You haven’t even offered me anything to eat’."
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Charlene, who added that she had no privacy in the room from staff coming in and out to collect equipment, added: “I just couldn’t wait to get out of there.
"I feel like I’m nothing. I just feel like dirt. My illness hasn’t been taken into consideration or anything.
A spokeswoman for Connolly Hospital said they could not comment on individual cases.
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However, she added: “Management would request any patient or family member who has concerns with regard to their hospital treatment and care to contact the hospital manager directly where their concerns may be addressed in confidence.”