Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,818
Thank you RB and sorry to read about the problem your mum in law had.
I have just emailed yet another complaint to the Practice Manager.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,067
Sorry but I think striking is not the way forward,a work to rule is a much better way to get a settlement and you still get pay, The Government save millions when the civil service go out on strike .no one gets paid. And the poor workers end up with loan to pay back,so go back to work but work to rule they make the rules so by working to them they cannot say a thing about it.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
An interesting read giving international comparisons.
Sad to see that Canada had joined the USA in having even worse healthcare outcomes (making people better!) than us.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2021/aug/mirror-mirror-2021-reflecting-poorly#rank"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
Well that was an odd day.
Ordering breakfast in 'spoons yesterday i was suddenly unable to speak properly - cognition/hearing OK but unable to formulate words. The girl behind the bar thought it was some sort of joke/wind up!
I went and joined rejoined my companion who contacted my carer.
Fortunately things got back to what I laughingly call normal within a couple of minutes.
By now my carer had arrived and I was going to file the whole thing away under 'Wierd as F**k' when it happened again.
Someone had fortunately 'phoned the Ambulance which was there within 15min.
Helped into the back of the 'truck' there was a 'Facetime' consultation with the consultant at Canterbury 'Stroke' Centre and it was blue lights all the way, though with another episode of inability to phrase coherent sentences en route.
Hospital brilliant with blood taken, ECG, CAT scan and MRI.
(Insert witty aside which will annoy people) It's amazing the service the articulate middle class get even when they're not articulate!
MRI showing 'restricted diffusion in the left insula, consistent with an acute infarction' and home by suppertime with a load of drugs and told not to drive for 30 days in case I have another attack and wipe out some passing pedestrians.
Apparently all quite 'healthy' apart from slight atrial fibrilation which I did not know about so just a random bit of 'shIt happens'.
Oh, and apart from having a stroke and part of my brain now being dead!
Someone even suggested it might be a local witch sticking pins into an effigy of myself but I can't think of anyone I might have annoyed?
At the time I was really angry at the thought that I might be dying and that I'd been far too pleasant to some people and should have called out their stupidity and told them what a waste of the planet's resources their whole lives had been (especially anyone who had wanted separate 'stroke' facilities all over Kent rather than a central center of excellence served by hi-tech ambulances) but today I'm trying to be calm!
Doubt if it will last.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,235
Glad you are ok, good to hear about your treatment.
A vast improvement from what my uncle had a few years ago, when he got shoved from pillar to post and eventually died in kings having fallen out of bed in Ashford and being airlifted becuase of the head injury it caused!
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,697
Sorry to hear about that Bob & glad you got the treatment you needed & hopefully you are on the way to a decent recovery
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Bob how awful glad you are ok and home best place .Knowing you I thought it was a wind up but I see it was serious at the time.its always best to be in your home.I spend a lot of time now on my own .The old Covid after a spell in Hospital has knocked me for six.In my own home I’m ok Out in the bigger world I need a stick and tire easily .Still chin up old bean
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,818
Captain glad you received such FAST
and good treatment.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
Goneril's PA 1 - 0 Regan & Cordelia
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
Thanks for kind thoughts. Much appreciated.
Back on topic now please.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
Glad ur ok bob
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
Tks Keef,
Enjoying Hythe Waitrose?
Just announced 300+ price cuts averaging 14%, free coffee with your Waitrose card AND no riff-raff! Winning.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,298
Glad to hear you're on the mend, Bob. Must have been quite alarming and thank goodness you received the prompt care that you did. Take care.
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davey- Registered: 2 May 2023
- Posts: 6
Scouser in the 'ozzie outback' here. I once worked for the NHS in the better days! This story you might find hard to believe and somewhat amazing?
I am able to access all medical services etc etc as per usual - however my Primary Health Carer [that means no beds?] is an Aboriginal Health Care Org. I won't go into the formalities but I have not only worked for some of them but have now been registered as a patient or whatever they wanna label me as for the past 8 years.
I live out of town in the bush [ so peaceful and very quiet] and when they need to provide me with more tabs in pkts of 4 wks - we call em Mypacks? - I just remind them a week before and they send out a driver to deliver them to the door.
If I need to see a doctor for any reason including removal of skin cancers again I ring them and they make an appointment for within the next few days and then send transport out for me. I can also have access to a psychologist; social worker and Aboriginal Health Care Workers who can give me injections; do skin dressings; ear washings etc.
I can still access a range of other things like audiologists ; knee surgery either by general or local at the local general hospital [ it's classifed as a regional hospital and they are dotted around the countryside with all small towns having one. ]
I do feel blessed.
Ps: my Aboriginal Health Service cannot register anymore 'whitefellas' cos they are up to maximum allowed. But for a group of peoples {Aboriginal that is} who have been marginalized and maligned for 200yrs plus and are now fighting for a "voice in parliament" I find them very noble and generous towards me?
God Save the King!!
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,818
Wasting money on c**p like that it is wonder the NHS can not afford to pay those poor underpaid consultants their exorbitant 35% pay rise.
Sorry but I have lost patience and sympathy with the medics who choose to strike. My thoughts are with the many people have to go without long awaited appointments or treatment and have to live with even longer worry and stress as well as pain.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,008
LOL the state of this place after 13 years of New Labour and 13 years of Conservatism. Hilarious that Conservatives thought they voted for conservatives. Side-splitting that liberals and lefties think Conservatives are 'far right'.
UK a clown act in an UK/EU/USA circus. The most rational creatures are the dancing dogs.
Happiest outside chewing cud while this degenerate tent collapses.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,818
#57 simply proves that all parties are as bad as each other as no improvement from the Coalition time and I think Corbyn's lot would have been no better for the NHS or the country.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
Not chesap these paint jobs?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,008
I don't understand why people keep knocking these colourfully modest NHS investments.
If it means more jobs than ever before for gender counsellors, gender counsellor trainers and college gender counsellor course managers; growth in gender career advice and university gender studies departments; flourishing gender lobbying groups; never-had-it-so-good pharmaceuticals; high demand for gender surgeons specialising in childrens' genitalia; police recruitment of social media gender inspectors; coining-it gender sign writers and professional gender paint sprayers; then surely it's a good thing.
Don't get me wrong, if I thought for a moment that cynical politicians, businesses and other corrupt, predatory ghouls were exploiting mixed-up youngsters for profit or personal advancement I'd be against it.
As it is, I think the Conservative Party should be congratulated for overseeing the gender industry's expansion.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
