Mixed reaction

[wheezyof]

I had a check up, yesterday, with the consultant about my lungs. He was pleased that I had followed advice over the winter : keep warm, keep away from other people with coughs and colds, using hand gel while out and frequent hand washing at home. Oh! Smug me.

Then I proffered him a little pot with a sputum sample. He seemed confused as to why I had produced it and where I'd got the pot from. Well no samples of sputum have been tested for a long while and my GP gave me a few pots for samples to use when I get a flare up. I thought the advice was to have sputum samples tested regularly just to see if anything nasty was brewing.

Anyhow the sample was accepted and will be sent for testing.

I'm still a bit confused by his reaction.

[O2Trees]

Not surprised you're confused - rather an ignorant reaction. Though it might have to do with the hierarchy, i.e. nurses are the ones who deal directly with sputum, not usually consultants haha. They like to keep their noses clean as it were lol

[wheezyof in reply to O2Trees]

Thank you, you made me laugh! Of course that had it's usual result : made me cough - quickest way to produce a sputum sample.

[O2Trees in reply to wheezyof]

I aim to please wheezyof