I went for a spirometric test at my local GP......

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And basically got refused lol. Well I spoke to the nurse about it and she told me that it would be better that she didn't give me the test in case it made me bring blood back up.

Anyway she pulled up a letter from the lung specialist that I had seen in hospital on the computer she was using and told me "possible PNEUMONIA" to be truthful I was actually rather angry in one sense at this because of how worried I had been because of the specialist telling me suspected emphysema.

The letter from my understanding didn't even mention emphysema and she looked rather surprised when I mentioned it. Regardless I had taken the advice of the lung specialist to quit smoking which I did and have an infection and possibly a relapse of pneumonia (that's if it was pneumonia in the first place) and am now on amoxicillin.

To say that I'm angry is a bit of an understatement and my psoriasis is now really really sore and getting worse because of my anger I am currently still trying to calm down and have a date for my bronchoscopy which will be the 3rd of July. I know what that entails and I must admit that I am nervous about it even though they can give me something for it.

I am curious as to why he would put in a letter "possible pneumonia" yet tell me "suspected emphysema" well I have a slight idea as to why and it could be due to a misunderstanding on HIS behalf on my complaint about the A&E area not having any form of entertainment for the inpatients like they have on the wards.

I know it could still be emphysema but I'm more hopeful that it was originally pneumonia and that it may have come back due to the quitting of smoking simply because of the clearing of the lungs and it seems to be considerably common for that to happen. Regardless I am feeling a little more at ease now so that will help no matter what the end result may be.

What a nightmare and what a way to bring the worst of my psoriasis out

[copdliving]

Still seems like an odd answer to providing a spirometry test. It takes all of 2 minutes to complete. And after having pneumonia it should be checked to be sure your lungs are recovering. The yforce me to have a spirometry test every time I visit my doctor.

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This local A&E has TV in the waiting area.

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copdliving it's because I have to go for a bronchoscopy and am still under the lung specialist and the nurse didn't want to "upset the applecart" as she put it.

scribe I just found it to be extremely boring and uncomfortable for me and the other patients being in that area, I mean some form of music or visual aid would comfort people a little thus less worry

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I can see what you mean Den O,

I mean as long as there aren't people sat there or waiting in line like Ralph C Nesbitt with a tomahawk stuck in his head complaining about headaches, or, if those there have to wait a long time, then it isn't nice to have to do that with no options, obviously nobody would expect a plush cinema, but at least to stop it reminding you off being stuffed in Tube train knowing not where to look, then well, I think it's a reasonable idea you have an your discomfort is a plain reaction to a situation, meaning, it's valid to feel how you do when there.

Nobody would be expecting Dolly Parton to give a show away, or the full cast of Chicago to drop in, but people are human beings not cattle in a pen waiting to be slaughtered.

I think anyone with any sense could understand what you meant even if you did use the word entertainment, I knew what yo meant; a place that would allow you to feel at ease and not the other way around, adding to your what is, already, present state of discomfort. So some reading material, nobody would expect a golf course, nobody would expect pal dancers, but a few computers wouldn't be out of place in this day and age. All of this is A&E is not a straight in and out again situation, me I don't know how it is in a typical A&E place but I know it's not all a case of people being rolled in on stretchers with an arm or leg hanging off who are then made to wait an hour blood dripping down, etc, I think I recall that people often have to wait hours, depending on how fast they think your emergency is.

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I would but I can't use a phone without having issues and not being able to even talk properly lol

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Exactly my point Tjohn, I was there for several days at least