NHS

My daughter went to her GP on Monday, the nurse changed her dressings and I must say that the foot looked very good, you could see the care that the surgeon had taken to work on her ankle so at the moment very pleased.

Now more serious Syria, just how can this keep going on??, it has to be sorted out soon, again I see that the government have bombed civilians killing many children, the kids do not deserve this it has to stop.

The French are now involved in a war with islamists in Mali, so we are now helping by providing transport planes, why are we doing this??, it takes these aircraft out of service for the RAF, meaning they can't transport supplies for our army, we do not need to be involved in this it will become just the excuse that terrorists could use to set off bombs in the UK, we have enough problem as it is with out tempting providence!, so lets get out of it and get back to supporting our army not the French.

NHS

My daughter went down at 3.30pm finished at 6.15pm, she was awake during most of the surgery but was put to sleep nearing the end of the two procedures, hopefully this will be the end but it might not be we will just have to wait to see, had to go rushing out this morning to rent a wheel chair good value really £20 for ten days, just got it in time, she was discharged but had to wait for her medication, nurses said that they are only allowed to ring the pharmacy ONCE, and more is considered harassment, that means the patient waiting to go home is held waiting on the whim of the pharmacist on duty, so instead of leaving at 10.30am she was finally allowed to come home at 1.15pm a bit of a joke really, there must be a quicker way for this to be done, most patients when told they are to be discharged are ready in a trice to leave, but then the pharmacy holds everything up, it can't be that difficult they only dispense as few an amount that they can get away with so it can't be that difficult, and as they are behind closed doors that says it all. Any way she is home now six weeks to go , starts on Monday visit to the GP, then a further visit to the hospital in two weeks so Hey Ho here we go. 

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.