NHS

Well took my daughter to the hospital at 9.50am, my wife went with her, decision taken to operate, finally went down at 3.30pm, maybe have two different procedures but that will be up to the surgeon when he sees what is what, hopefully this could be the end of her pain but if not it will be a long road before she is able to walk with no pain.
We have the grandchildren with us tonight, not good really as we are both very stressed at the moment, trying to get sorted out with food for them and a wheel chair for my daughter, more to follow.

NHS

Well life can be fraught can't it?, my daughter has been wearing a plaster cast on her ankle for the best part of seven weeks,  on Monday when she went to the hospital to have the cast removed her expectation was very high!, she had made plans to do all sorts of things, but of course that is too easy, they took the plaster off and did an x-ray and found that the bits of bone that were in her ankle when she first attended the hospital were still there, necessitating an emergency operation tomorrow, she will then be in plaster for six to seven weeks so it is start again, the prognosis is a 50% chance of it succeeding but the chance has to be taken, but I want to know just how we got to this point, from one nurse and three doctors telling her that it was a soft tissue injury!, to this consultant saying she needs emergency surgery, it just makes you think do hospital employees have the slightest knowledge as to what they are doing, it has been suggested that the word care has gone from the vocabulary of nurses and doctors, if it has may I suggest that they find a dictionary and look the word care up then they might just keep on the right side of the patient who of course in all of this is the most important factor, I pray that all will go well for her, will add to this on Saturday.

Government

Do Mr Cameron and Clegg really think they are sorting out the financial ills of the country because if they do I have news for them, you can't keep cutting benefit or you will in the end save more money that you think because so many will actually die!, because they just will not have the money to survive, these will unfortunately be elderly people the young will find a way to survive, these old people have paid their dues, have in most cases been involved in a war, but will not complain, we know that so why do we put them under pressure and make them feel guilty for taking any form of benefit, we as a nation should be ashamed firstly that we treat them as second class people and secondly allow the government to actually deprive them of their old age.

Here We Are

I just do not know what the heck has been going on, many things I have wanted to blog on but I just could not get on the site.
Tonight for a change I have managed it, and would you believe I am having a problem putting some words together, my daughter has just spent seven weeks in plaster on her ankle, so she has not been able to drive, so I have had to take the kids to school for five weeks, today she went to the fracture clinic to she thought to have the plaster removed, fat chance, another NHS mess up, she has had the plaster on for no reason, the problem with her ankle is that there are two bits of bone floating about in the ankle, she now needs an emergency operation, also has to have a MRI scan ASP, she will be inactive for 6 to 7 weeks so I have to do the school run as from tomorrow once again, a big thank you NHS. I have to say it is not in the least funny!, she has been in serious pain for so many weeks, these pieces of bone were known about seven weeks ago, if she needs and emergency operation now should she not have had it at the very beginning? or am I expecting too much?.

Syria/OAP's

It makes me laugh, 60,000 have died, possibly 147,000 but that can't be ascertained it seems that the only way to get the correct numbers is by cross referencing, well does it really matter how many?, we know that children are dying on the streets in their homes so who really cares about the actual numbers?. the fact is that we as a World are letting these people down!, I am not expecting the Western troops to get involved but soldiers from the Middle East could act as a intermediary force to sort this total mess out, it can't go on for another year it has to stop and stop now!.

Being Old, it comes to us all!, and it arrives before you know it, it is difficult to survive, gas, electric, council tax and water all have to be paid, little in a lot out, please understand I am not bleating on my behalf, I manage these bills at the moment!, but just how many don't?, people found in their houses/flats dead for weeks, what does that say about us?, how can we continue on this track, why is it that councillors and MP's seem to think that because a few pensioners have a few bob lets take it off them, these are people with the better pension pot!, it is all well and good having a go at the elderly but you must remember that it will not be long before you are in that group, and the saying what goes around comes around so people in authority beware it just might bite back, and the bum is a very tender place to be bitten.

My Blog

It has been a very frustrating time for me, it seems that I am totally unable to use my laptop to get onto my Blog, the only way is by using my PC, I thought it was because I am using windows 8 but it is on both machines so can't be.

Not been very well over then past few days rotten blocked nose and a really nasty cough, but keep on going, went to a Pantomime yesterday afternoon, not bad but the lack of skill and ability of the cast makes no difference for the kids, who I might add had a wail of a time, one fly in the ointment 5 tubs small of ice cream £2.50 each a bit steep I thought, by the end of the evening I was light of £100, seems a bit pricey but you can't say that to the kids.

Death seems to be ever present in the World, the young lady in India Gang Raped on a bus including the driver just what is going on, there is a rape every 14 hours in India, how can this be happening?, why is it Indian and Pakistani men have such a disrespectful attitude towards women?, it is time that they learned that it is not acceptable to treat women any differently than they would treat a male, but we in the UK are as much to blame, we know that some young women are forced to marry, some have been killed because they have dared to cross the farther and mother, Honor killings my foot they are just plain "murder", no excuse as it is how we used to live, all women are free in the UK no one has the right to inflict harm on them, no one owns them, they are free and it is about time that our leaders got up and told the people in this country that this is the case and abuse will not be accepted whoever might be the perpetrator, this has to stop and stop now.

I am back

I have not got the slightest idea as to why I have not been able to post my blog but I just have not been able to access my this page for some time.

Well here we go, I have to say that the NHS is in turmoil, the new commissioning groups will if they are not very careful be the death of our hospitals, the trouble with going out to the private sector allowing them to submit bids for services is I believed flawed, the acceptance of "cheaper is better" is a fallacy, just because it is cheep does not in the least make it better, the main thought should be what is the very best service that can be set up for the cost be it more or less, the services have to be of a good standard, how can the private bidder show or prove that?, the hospital has a cost that it has to factor into the bid that makes it very unfair on them, are we going to watch the service become a private led NHS, hospitals closing and going bankrupt, you might think I am talking rubbish, but watch out you can't say you have not been warned!!!.