The angry thread

[Trainfish]

I have a website which allows me to order repeat prescriptions from my GP practice and have them delivered to my local pharmacy, something I have to do every 2 months.

Mick, why don't you just use Pharmacy2U like I do? You request on the website and they deliver to your home address for free. Means you can spend more time on the layout too. Unless of course it's a good excuse to get out some times.

[stevewalker]

You can imagine how worried I was being sent to a lung cancer specialist ,but ended up a waist of time and never knowing why or what went wrong .
Bob Tidbury

Some years ago, I was suffering from a skin problem and my GP referred me to a Dermatologist. She, in turn, wanted to rule out Tuberculosis and ordered a chest X-ray. The next thing, I was referred to a Cancer specialist and given blood tests, called in and told that I definitely had Lymphoma and that they'd need to bring me in for investigation to determine stage and grade, but that as it was just before Christmas, they couldn't do it for some weeks.

You can imagine the upset and worry, waiting three weeks, over Christmas, when my wife was 7-1/2 months pregnant with our third child and the other two were only two and four years old! We couldn't even talk to anyone about it, as I didn't want to worry my parents until I knew more.

After Christmas, I was called back in on a Wednesday for a general check-over, ready for a general anaesthetic on Friday. However, I had to go into hospital on Thursday evening - simply because they might have given my bed away if I wasn't there! What's wrong with a reserved sign?

On the Friday, they knocked me out, stuck a camera down my windpipe, into my lungs and cut a hole in my chest to put a camera in there. On coming round in recovery, I started choking (I can remember struggling and it needing six people to hold me down) and they had to knock me out again and re-intubate.

When I came round, they moved me to the High Dependency Unit for the night - but they'd left my pregnant wife worrying for five hours after I was supposed to come out of theatre.

A week later they phoned the results through - no sign of cancer, but positive biopsies for Sarcoidosis (a generally self-limiting condition, that goes away in 6 to 18 months) ... which my wife had been suggesting to them from the start, but they'd totally dismissed!

A month of stress for us both, unpaid time off work, a near brush with death - and all for nothing, as their diagnosis had been wrong.

[NinOz]

............what, you're going to mail me a slit lamp, YAG laser, and train my wife to do this for you? 
Jon

Wait, don't be hasty.  Is there any modelling potential in the equipment?

[Bob Tidbury]

Steve Walker ,I know how you and your wife must have felt ,lack of communication is terrible for people like us not knowing what the future will be and then finding not as serious as we thought .
On a better note just before Christmas I did a Bowel Cancer test and had the results back to say blood was detected ,
Since then I have had a CT scan an M R I scan five camera examinations ,11 polyps and a three and a half cm lump removed SO THEY DO get things right sometimes .
I RECOMEND THAT IF ANY OF YOU GET A REQUST TO DO A BOWEL CANCER TEST TO DO IT  the lump I had was removed before it turned cancerous and could have been fatal .
DONT PUT THE TEST OFF its no good saying Im fine you dont know whats going on inside your body as there are no real signs apart from a bit of blood now and then .
Bob Tidbury

[Newportnobby]

I have a website which allows me to order repeat prescriptions from my GP practice and have them delivered to my local pharmacy, something I have to do every 2 months.

Mick, why don't you just use Pharmacy2U like I do? You request on the website and they deliver to your home address for free. Means you can spend more time on the layout too. Unless of course it's a good excuse to get out some times.

My pharmacy is just up the road and I pass it twice a week. I've never asked them to deliver but, one day, there was a knock at the door (why do people rap on the door when there's a doorbell at eye level? First thing when I open the door is to ring the doorbell then look at them as if they're mad) and my friend Kev from the gym held out a bag of meds. I told him not to bother delivering them but to give people more needy of the service a chance, so I collect mine while ever I'm able.
There's no way I'm getting stuff delivered like shopping and meds or I'll become one of these hermits who have no human contact whatsoever. That's just sad unless medically advised.

[dannyboy]

As Bob says, do not put off any test if offered. A few years ago, my Doctor did a PSA test and to cut a long story short, after my PSA count was found to be in the 20's, (should have been about 5), then two 'digital' examinations, two biopsies  and a later MRI scan, they decided that I "probably did have cancer".  After a different sort of prostate biopsy, done under general anaesthetic, I was eventually told that I "probably do not have cancer". The Consultant decided that he would change my medication and they would keep a watch on my 6 monthly PSA test and they would not do anything unless the figure rises much above 6. Fortunately in the last few years, I have only had one result that was slightly above 6 - and nobody seemed bothered, so I'm not. So although I lived with the thought that I might have cancer for over 12 months and was angry, (in one way), but relieved when they finally said that it probably was not cancer, I now work on the theory that I haven't. So to go back to the beginning, if offered a test, get it, even if it does mean a period of worry.

[daffy]

Saturday evening, 7:15pm, 'Strictly...' about to start. Glow of reversing and red tail lights visible on the opaque window blinds. Sound of a van reversing. Odd sound as van stops and goes forward. Daffy hotfoots it outside as large white van, having turned around just up the road, passes by and stops outside neighbours house.

Daffy shines torch around - half of front post and rail fence trashed!

Approaches man getting out a van. Man unaware (he says) that he has demolished said fence. Soon admits he did though and politely gives me all his address, telephone number and vehicle reg details. And the contact number for ...  Yodel. (he was delivering to neighbour).

Sunday to Monday afternoon no reply on driver's given mobile number, but he just happens to be delivering across the road mid-afternoon while I'm digging out posts so I ask him what's happening. Most apologetic and says his boss (a delivery agent) will contact me definitely tomorrow.

Tuesday comes and goes. Nothing.

Wednesday. A reminder not to try to speak to a human being at Yodel via any available phone number as you can't! You get advised by a machine to go online and a 'Webchat' with someone who will eventually conclude you have to email them at property.damage@yodel.co.uk.

Happily get a call a few hours later from a nice lady with a long name who tells me my case is being referred and they will get back to me within 24 to 48 hours.

Meanwhile, no fencing contractor near me able to do the work for yonks so I'm doing it myself. Looks like materials costs will be honoured but it might be a bit of an argument to get any of my own labour hours reimbursed in any way. Oh, and i'm advised not to do any work yet until I've had a trader do an estimate. 

Fence is essential to keep delivery drivers and Posties from stepping all over my garden, and dogs from doing their thing on SWMBO's prized plants, so sod'em! I'm getting wood delivered tomorrow morning (rapid set concrete already here) from same supplier most of them around here use. Need to get the posts in tomorrow as it's set to rain a lot Friday afternoon onwards and this flat low-lying land I live on will get well soggy and stay that way for yonks.

Ah well, at least I can get a better fence built, adding extra rails and posts at my own expense once the damaged part is replaced. Every cloud......

But I'm not really that philosophical, just 

[guest311]

bet the response would have been much better if you had
1. reported vehicle for leaving the scene of an accident
2. reported failure to exchange details after an accident
3. put a Denver boot on said van and said "I;ll remove it when claim settled"

but then I'm a bolshie old sod who does NOT believe that the pen is mightier than the sword / AK47 /Armalite or even a Browning high power.

[Newportnobby]

What chance of getting an ex-police 'Stinger' to set road side of the fence?

[guest311]

probably sue him fir the cost of the tyres 

[daffy]

A Stinger, eh.   Well, I've got a jar of galvanised clout nails. They might work until I got arrested.

[guest311]

of course, he could always replace the wooden fence with wood clad RSJs set in concrete !

do more damage to the van than the fence 

[guest311]

bearing in mind my previous record of offences and punishments,
but after watching the local 6 o'clock news with reference to the protesters breaking in to Fawley refinery, and their 'pr statements by a couple of Olympians' I could not help but wonder [a] how they all got there to protest, assuming not all travelled in electric vehicles, and noted that the said Olympians seemed not to feel so strongly about fossil fuels when they were flying around the world to take part.

ok, I'll pack my bag and head towards the naughty step, yet again 

[dannyboy]

ok, I'll pack my bag and head towards the naughty step, yet again 

I am not sure about the legalities Alan, but I believe you could claim squatters rights. 

[emjaybee]

bearing in mind my previous record of offences and punishments,
but after watching the local 6 o'clock news with reference to the protesters breaking in to Fawley refinery, and their 'pr statements by a couple of Olympians' I could not help but wonder [a] how they all got there to protest, assuming not all travelled in electric vehicles, and noted that the said Olympians seemed not to feel so strongly about fossil fuels when they were flying around the world to take part.

ok, I'll pack my bag and head towards the naughty step, yet again 

Well, you better shove over and make room for me. I'm tired of all these 'celebrities' who've had a very nice privileged time trundling all round the world making their fame and fortune, now deciding that they're 'holier than thow', and telling me how to live my life.

Hmm, this steps roomier than I thought.