Hell that sounds terrible, I hope everything will work out OK......:thumb2
The whole thing about hospital parking is a debacle, that lays extra stress at an already stressful time....
You are not kidding, a few years ago, I was working in the garage on my own, and the wife was out at a works do. A piece of metal I was holding in the vice, and drilling, snagged. As it was a shiny bit, that I did not want to scratch, so it was in rag, and the vice was only done up tight enough to grip, rather than clamp tight. The drill ripped it out the vice, and threw it across the bench, and in doing so, somehow caught the side of my finger, and sliced it open, bad enough to need stitches.
I had not lived here long, and did not know where the nearest hospital was, so had to look through the yellow, rapidly turning red, pages, and found it was 15 miles away in Tonbridge Wells. I wrapped my hand as best I could in a clean tea towel, and drove to the hospital. Luckily it was when I had the V70 Auto, so only needed one hand for most of the time. When I got there, and found it, I discovered that you had to pay for parking, and as I had left in a hurry, I had no money on me. Luckily, one of the security guards was outside, and when I explained my predicament, he let me into a secret that the guy who watches the car-park goes home at 6, so I should be safe...
It was a Friday night, and the A&E looked like world war 3 had started, so I settled in for a long wait, all the time worrying if I was going to return to the car to find it clamped or towed, and a large fine. Luckily the Security guard was right.
Another thing is, a lot of them expect you to pay up front for how long you are going to be, but with the huge queues, how are you supposed to know, and once you are through to the actual A&E part, there is no way you can just pop back out to put more money on the car.