Thank you all

Thank you all for your kind responses. With your support since joining this forum I have been fighting all the way. I now am going to take advise regarding anxiety as the nurse reaction to me has set me back ten told. I don't seem to be able to bounce back from her comment. Wish I had not gone to that appointment, coz all I am doing now is crying and beating myself up. Got to wait until May for more test and negativity has set in..thinking the worse. Thank you for letting me express myself.

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You will bounce back. I had hell finding out about my asthma. You will be able to get though this Have you been able to find a more understanding doctors to support you though this? Try and hope for a good out come in May.

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Thank you

[Yatzy]

Have you tried meditation, Emily? Plenty on you tube, or apps such as headspace. Good for clearing your mind, and developing the habit of how to do it.

The thoughtless nurse just needs staff training, not your problem, write her off.

Love 🌸

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Don’t cry Emily- Laugh!

That nurse is ignorant, unprofessional and doesn’t know what she is talking about.Not worth even thinking about. If it were me I would have her out of her job by now. We are paying her wages, she is there to assist and support patients, not set their progression back with her stupidity.

So Emily, stay away from her, listen to your many lovely friends on here who are far more knowledgable than she is. Do some exercises to perk you up and SMILE 😉xxxx

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Do get a grip Emily, you are ten times the woman that you think you are. Concentrate on the successes you have had since you first joined this group. Crying and wailing doesn't suit you at all, brush off those minor incidents. 😘

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No nonsense Teflon Don has spoken 🤣 I think a sense of humour is not just helpful, it’s vital for those of us with serious health conditions! You have to, somehow, find the funny bone and poke it as often as you can. As for the nurse - meh! Ignore her.

Short story for you. I was recently rushed into hospital. High BP, low oxygen, and unable to breathe. I genuinely thought I was dying in the ambulance. They gave me oxygen, and put a couple of drops of medicine under my tongue that is used in heart patients, it got my blood running more efficiently. This, along with much coughing and wheezing meant that although I was still feeling very ill, I was much improved by the time I got there. Initially we went into A&E, and the paramedics wandered off to book me in. A nurse walked up to me and said ‘why are you in that trolley’ which, as you can imagine, flustered me. I waffled a bit, trying to explain, wishing the paramedics would come back, and she very abruptly said ‘you look fine to me’ before marching off leaving me and my wife Sara utterly speechless! I never saw her again as I was whisked off to the rapid assessment unit, where my treatment was second to none! Despite this my experience as a whole was faultless, this nurse left us shocked at her utter lack of compassion.

I could dwell on it, but I refuse to. Quite the opposite actually, I’ve laughed about it with other family members, and I imagine Miss NastyNurse ears have burned a few times since then.

Moral of the story? If there is one it’s yes, there are some idiots out there in the medical profession sadly, but they are few and far between. The overriding majority are utterly lovely, and do a very difficult job under extremely difficult underfunded circumstances

Keep well and try not to worry too much for the time being xx

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Thank you will try not to

[les4560]

hi Emily having a really rough time aren't you? well as you know I did too from Dec, to March I was a MESS! but there are things you can do to make your self feel better and get your mind off of things, like for instance go get a mani/pedi I did and did a lot of talking to the lady that was working on me and all of a sudden I felt so much better, and one of the best things I did for my self was had a massage I had no idea the stress had me so knotted up-just some ideas;