Happy Saturday one and all! Today is a busy day, a ` lots of housework` day. Well, it was but now it`s finished......Big sigh.......and I can get on with the important business of reading journals. Yesterday I had my hospital appointment. After being told to go along there earlier than planned. Once I got there it was to find that the appointments were running 45mins late! I couldn`t believe it after all the fuss made over the last two days, anyway, I saw the doctor eventually after only 30mins, and she promptly looked at my RIGHT HAND and asked me how it was. I told her it was my LEFT ELBOW so she looked at my records, I presume to confirm it! She wasn`t bothered by the fact is wasn`t healed and told me to put a plaster on it. Wow, why didn`t I think of that......! Then she booked me in for physio, in 2 weeks time. I asked her a few questions and she seemed a bit put out that I didn`t just get up and walk away. Personally I think it`s good to ask perfectly reasonable questions about something that affects my health, but still I came away knowing no more than when I went in. I have to go back in 2 months but I`m not too sure I`ll bother. I`ll see how my arm is at the time........hmmm! Let`s just say I`m not impressed by the treatment I`ve recieved lately. The operation and the staff`s treatment of me at the time was first-class but as for aftercare, forget it. This is `conveyor belt` NHS at it`s worst.
I don`t have too much to say today so I`ll leave you now and go and read your journals. Have a great weekend and take care.
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Reading this makes me appreciate my Doctor and J's paediatrician so much! It seems that when it's good it's really good - NHS - but when it's not so good, it's pretty bad! I don't blame you for not wanting to go back.
Sara x
Yep, that is the state of our Health Service these days, at least in the South East, so many people complaining but it does little good. Well, I hope your healing goes fine and you have no more problems with it then you can ignore them.
Awwwww Sandra - sorry to hear it didn't go so well for you.......One day it'll be sorted - keep smiling for now hun xx
So sorry. I hope that your elbow gets better soon. I hate going to doctors that do not bother to look at your chart.
Know what NHS conveyor belt is like - 2 lumps, pain etc. on the site of old surgery and no proper investigations - told "everything is fine"! Will have to be, because I am nearing 58 and too old for the NHS to be bothered with.
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