The doctors surgery

When will you get a date for the knee surgery Minty?

Pre op appointment 14th Dec, just got the letter yesterday, then think the ops got to be carried out in six or so weeks after that or you've got to have another pre op...

Watch your back Seb.........

Oy Minty, this ain't the "drop the H" thread, its a "PRE HOP" 

Yip, that's me in training for the next olympics, op, skip and jump...

By the way, who came up with that one,,, Dear Mr Olympic Commity,  I've come up with this playground game etc, etc...

Went to surgery today to have blood pressure monitor fitted for 24 hours. She put it on and first measurement was 198/100.   Dont worry she said, you are probably a bit tense, well I feckin am now! They rang me at 8am to see the doctor tomorrow as well, my blood tests are back........  Its just done another measurement, does it about every 20 minutes, now down to a respectable 172/101 and 71 beats per minute. Might not be many more beats left...... 
Patsy is off work today to see Doc this afternoon. She says it hurts when she eats and has back pain in the kidney area.
Just to add to all that just heard son in law is going to hospital on the 15th to have part of his lung removed, he is 74 by the way. So, looks like a 3 way race to the cemetery then.   Think I will take a pit-stop. 

198/100,,, don't let them stick a needle in you, you'll explode...

Annie's at the hospital three o'clock again today,,, nothing to do with her, her dad, she's asked for a meeting with all parties involved as neither seems to know what the other is doing,,, he was told he was ready for discharge about two weeks before we went on holiday, and that was the 13th Nov, so that was about six weeks back, Annie spoke with a good care home near to where she lives as he ain't in a state to go back to his assisted housing flat as yet, they said going by the condition Annie described him to be in they would be prepaired to accept him but needed official reports through the hospital/social services/care worker, Annie speaks to all of them before we go on holiday and he was meant to move to the home on the 12th Nov but that didn't happen, socials and care worker say hospitals not supplied paperwork, hospital says they have, care homes getting sick holding space for him, Annie's pissed off phoning them every day, been going round and round in circles going nowhere for weeks now while here dad sits is a so called much in demand hospital bed with no actual illness other than old age and a bit confusion due to the infections he had,,, so Annie took the bull by the horns and asked for a meeting with all involved...

Possibly just as well the meetings in a hospital...

Good on her

Just had one angry Annie on the phone from the hospital, meeting goes on for a hour going over and over the sane points/issues again no again,,, eventually it's more or less decided that the care home is the best place for her dad, but the care worker who it would seem her hands he is in at the moment because it's the "care department" that oversee the assisted housing flat he lives in at the moment wants to see him (if he's to be moved to a care home that's the "social departments" job),,, So off they trott to the ward, the conversation...

Care worker: We're looking at moving you out of the hospital where would you like to go...

Dad: Home...

Care worker: He wants to go home, why not let him...

Annie: He don't even know where he is, every time I visit he gets up to go and buy me a drink from the bar,,, he just sits looking in to space, ain't communicating, how's he meant to manage with four visits a day to feed him, he needs 24 hour care...

Care worker: I'll look in to him having his visits extended to a full half hour...

Annie,: And what about the other 22 hours...

Annie calls over a nurse and asks her to explain what her dads doing night and day...

Nurse: He gets up, goes walk about, we don't know if he wants the toilet, we get no answer when we ask, oh and he's  still a bit incontinent...

Annie: So you would be happy with him wandering around in the block of flats where he lives like that...

Care worker: The fact he says he wants to go home I'll have to discuss the case with my boss...

WTF

Feckin' nightmare Minty!

I watch that super vet and think wow what care those animals get,

Of course he said he wants to go home, tell him theres more women than men in old peeps place, bound to get him thinking.........   Patsy back from doctor, swapped some pills for some blood. Malingering I think, or shes just jealous they are giving me so much attention. 

Got more of the story after Annie got home, care worker actually asked him "would you rather go in to a care home or your own house,,, this was after a hour of discussion around whether he was in a fit enough  state of mind to go home, and the conclusion around the table was he was not...

WTF

Adam Mint wrote:Got more of the story after Annie got home, care worker actually asked him "would you rather go in to a care home or your own house,,, this was after a hour of discussion around whether he was in a fit enough  state of mind to go home, and the conclusion around the table was he was not...

WTF

I am not surprised that Annie is angry,I would be too.

Went to doctors today to have my 24 hour blood pressure monitor removed. She plugged it in laptop and said oh dear it hasnt recorded any readings. FFS! Now I have to go back tomorrow to have another one fitted, then back on Friday to have it removed.    Also saw doctor and complained about high readings and he said dont worry about that, you appear to have diabetes, come back in two weeks for another blood test so I can confirm........ Jeez, now I'm worried about what I may consume over Christmas. 
Went to see Roy after, he is in Norwich Hospital on Tuesday to have half a lung removed. Said 2% dont make it through the operation......... Puts my MOT failure into perspective then eh? 

Just saw on FB that Graham Usher is in hospital getting his knees seen to I think. Get well soon and home as quickly as poss Graham!

Pressure monitor back on, same friggin one innit.   They only have one. Got my own one now too, splashed out £15 at Argos......... Saw Roys sons wife in waiting room, Hello Vince, you all right? NO.    Told her my tales of woe. Then she says she is bleeding from the back passage.    Aha, that explains why you and Mark aint got no kids then I'm thinking to myself...... Then she said her Mum died of the same thing...... 
Why am I such a sick fecker?
Get well soon Jess. 

Update on Annie's dads situation ref posts  633, 635 and 639 on Tuesday, Annie gets a phone call from the "care worker" yesterday, shes discussed the case with her boss and they've decided the best place for Annie's dad would be a care home, (well what a surprise that is),,, then the care worker goes on to say she'll be phoning the "social worker" whose job it is to organise the care home on "Friday",,, a four day wait to make a feckin phone call,,, and what prompted my post today,,, This:-

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Nobody talks to each other or if they do it ain't recorded anywhere.

We all have an NHS number, My diabetic nurse cant access my doctors notes and vice versa, different system, WTF they both wait ages to find out what is the next step,

Just found this out recently, came to light in conversation ref the bit of metal in eye/not going to carry out MRI scan issue, would seem it is your local GP that holds your full medical records, anything carried out in hospital etc is forwarded to your GP for filing...

Why the feck cant hospitals and GP's records be held on the same system. Same shite goes on over here. Darragh went to emergency department with suspected appendix. Waited 6 hours to be seen. Is he alergic to this and that? "I've no idea". We'll hold him overnight until we can ring the doctors office in the morning. "What if he has a burst appendix"? "Can't do anything until we get his records faxed ( feckin' FAXED in this day and age). Shambles

Blood pressure monitor came off yesterday. It worked this time. Nurse says make an appointment to see doc he will probably put you on pills. Receptionist says 30th of December. I explain I will probably be dead by then so she says ring at 8am everyday and we will try and fit you in. Yeah, me and 50 others probably. 

I have to write down everything I eat and drink in a diary for the Health Advisor. Been a very good boy I have but may have slipped up yesterday...... 8 pints of Fosters..... 

Sick note thread again....... Got appointment with doc this morning, yet another one with a nice suntan.    Now got some blood pressure pills, might upset my tummy he says. Says on them dont consume grapefruit juice, as if.   Says nowt about alcohol so thats OK then. Booked me in for yet another blood test in the morning..............