The angry thread

[Newportnobby]

Been away for a few days and, on return and checking my home phone, found I had 5 messages. The first 4 was the NHS saying they would try to contact me again. The 5th was from the NHS telling me not to attend my appointment at Chorley Hospital on 1st July at 16.30hrs. My first thought was "I haven't got such an appointment but do have a telephone appointment at 18.00hrs that day with the spinal consultant". The lady then went on to say "Oops. You don't have an appointment at Chorley and the consultant won't be ringing you as that call was supposedly a follow up to an MRI scan (for which I haven't even been given a date for yet) so it will be at least a couple of months away yet"
I'm not the first to suffer this and I'm sure I won't be the last but it's a  shambles. I spent 2 grand on private consultancy just to be thrown back on the NHS scrapheap waiting for action.

[Dorsetmike]

One PC has lost USB, spent the last 3 days trying to cram everything onto 1 PC, tried adding hard drive from duff machine to the working one, erased most of C: directory still wouldn't start, so now resorted to copying from the smaller (2GB) drive connected via USB.