Just to lift your day...... 😂

[Jillymo]

I sure did put the cat amongst the pigeons with my letter to my endocrinologist, I just recieved this email from my surgery..........

Thank you for discussing your concerns today. I am sorry we were not able to provide the timely care you indicated you needed on the phone. As next steps we will:

-Organise home blood tests, which I have written on to ask lab not to process b12......... I had refused tests because they were insisting on checking my B12 despite my being on injections !

-Visit on 17th June, around midday, but I will call to inform............ If I have to make an appointment to be seen thats if you can get through on the damned phone they can do the same.

-Expedite ENT to see you with request for (Name redacted by admin)......... I am 73yrs young, had three falls due to fluid in my middle ear and vertigo yet I have had to insist the referal be expidited !

-Levothyroxine dose is now 100mcg and our pharmacy technicians are reviewing this in light of Dossett..... Whoopee, I only had to bash him around the head with a baseball bat to get him to listen! I am smiling from ear to ear - but why should our health have to decline and have to go to such lengths ? ? ?

-Finally, Shingles vaccine. We have non live vaccine only now and can give the 2 doses , 6 months apart. Called Shingrix....... I am housebound, have low immunity but the vaccine was refused me due to having to send a nurse out ! Amazingly after putting a rocket up their rears and making a complaint my vaccine has now been warrented !

Somebody come along and wipe this smile from face it's beginning to make my jaw ache. 🤣

[Brightness14]

Please move to France nurses abound and same day GP appointments.

[Jillymo in reply to Brightness14]

Thats a wonderful idea have you the room for a lodger ? 👜 ✈

My son is in Bulgaria, he can see a Dr, have bloods taken by a nurse, be scanned and get results all on the same day !

[Zephyrbear in reply to Jillymo]

Ditto for my son in Holland. However, they do pay for it through a health insurance scheme (I hasten to add, nowhere near as ridiculous as the American systems) as there is no NHS and I suspect it will be the same in Bulgaria…

[arTistapple]

Jillymo that’s all great. BUT don’t get too ‘high’. Many’s the slip etc etc.

Not to take away from your brilliant handling!!

[Jillymo in reply to arTistapple]

Just to feel a little normal (what ever normal is) and function would be a bonus. I had a call from my Dr ' yes you heard right ' he called me to let me know he has instructed the chemist about the increase of Levo ! He has also escalated an apointment to be seen in ENT.

It pays to complain. 🤣

[arTistapple in reply to Jillymo]

Only if you do it correctly and you have! Congrats.

[Brightness14]

Yes we have two bedrooms plus a shower room in the loft area. The town that we live in only has 1000 residents but it has a brand new hospital too.

[Jillymo in reply to Brightness14]

Hmm, I have an issue i'm not able to do stairs. 🤔

It sounds wonderful and a new hospital.....whoopee. 😘 💐

[Brightness14]

Hold that thought!

[serenfach]

Well done. I know the time and energy it takes to sock it to them! My Endo was in the camp of low TSH bad, no matter what the other results said. I sent him a 5 page letter with lots of research links that prove otherwise. He did a 180 turn around saying low TSH did not necessarily mean much. This is the top Endo in Wales. I had to keep crossing out rude bits (can I have your salary as I am obviously more up to date than you) and (is it because I have a vagina?) and make it business like. I did get a dig in that it was at the same hospital that an op went wrong and an overdose of contrast medium sent me down a spiral of ill health though.

Keep grinning and pat yourself on the back!

[Jillymo in reply to serenfach]

You made me bl--dy laugh.

I find it so damned hard to cross out the rude bits but hey ho our letters have still hit home. You give it them girl.