The Chill Out Zone

[stevestrat]

Originally Posted by stevenicks

I wonder if he wears white stilettoes .

Only at the weekends when he becomes Susan.

[Gate Keeper]

[QUOTE=stevestrat;2513869]I have to admit my GP is very good, perhaps the best I've dealt with. As I mentioned I was at the hospital this morning and was given a note for my GP regarding going onto metformin, I handed the note into the surgery on my way home. A couple of hours later I got a phone call from my GP saying he'd done the prescription and repeated the advice I was given for starting on it. Also, he's already updated the online repeat request.[/QUOTE

They vary in character Steve

[stevestrat]

Had good docs and bad ones. The worst was a female doc, I saw her one morning after a couple of days of stomach pains, she said it was a bug going round. That afternoon I was doubled up with a sudden crippling pain, my wife phoned the surgery and got her again, she said it was stomach cramps. Ended up phoning an ambulance, pumped full of morphine and blue lighted into A&E where they found a burst appendix.

[reworht]

Another flying visit - I've currently got 0.4 mbps wifi speed, so I need to make the most of it

Julien - please pass on Angela and I's best wishes to Derek and Lilian - let us hope and pray that the medical profession will retirez their doights (to misquote the Duke of Edinburgh) and give him the attention and treatment he so obviously needs and deserves.

For my sins - I took Angela to the Gloucester Quays Retail Shopping centre today. Jeez, it's absolutely enormous, with prices of the same magnitude - all we bought was a morning paper

Tomorrow we're off to see the Slimbridge Wetlands Centre (should be a few good looking birds around ), followed by the Purton Hulks (look it up on the web - really interesting ).
Thursday is awning down and packing up day - ready for a 7.30am start to the trip home on Friday

PS - Thatchers Rosy tonight

[Gate Keeper]

Good evening Rod, I won't quote your post again, as this one follows yours. You had a full programme for the tour down south. Are you both having fun?

[Gate Keeper]

Originally Posted by stevestrat

Had good docs and bad ones. The worst was a female doc, I saw her one morning after a couple of days of stomach pains, she said it was a bug going round. That afternoon I was doubled up with a sudden crippling pain, my wife phoned the surgery and got her again, she said it was stomach cramps. Ended up phoning an ambulance, pumped full of morphine and blue lighted into A&E where they found a burst appendix.

I was going to write up an experience I had today Steve, then thought better of it and then deleted it. A burst appendix is serious stuff. Thank goodness it was sorted in the nick of time.

[reworht]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

Good evening Rod, I won't quote your post again, as this one follows yours. You had a full programme for the tour down south. Are you both having fun?

Hi Phil - hope your medical problems are on the way to being solved ?
Angela and I send our best regards to you - and of course, Jessica
Yes - we're having a very relaxing holiday - just a shame it has to come to an end. The first site had lovely views across to Dartmoor, and we saw some splendid sunsets; the second site in the New Forest had its own resiident herd of deer which we saw in close-up every morning and night - and the current site backs onto the Gloucester - Sharpness canal, with a fairly constant flow of barges, small vessels, canal boats and even the odd ocean-going yacht. We've never been short of something to see
As an added bonus, there's a pub about 25 yards from our caravan with a full gluten-free menu (which keeps Angela happy) and a number of draught ciders (which keeps me happy). However, I fear we'll be on a diet when we get home - after cream teas, Sunday roasts, Cornish pasties, strawberries and clotted cream, and around a gallon of cider each week for me - I'll have to buckle down in advance of my annual heart/diabetes check-up

PS - I made a momentous, major decision half an hour ago .....
...... changed the bottle of Thatchers Katy for a pint of Orchard Pig Truffler cider instead - how risqué is that ??

[stevestrat]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

I was going to write up an experience I had today Steve, then thought better of it and then deleted it. A burst appendix is serious stuff. Thank goodness it was sorted in the nick of time.

I didn't pursue it as, apparently, a dodgy appendix is difficult to diagnose from a GP consultation. I do try to avoid seeing her again though. I got off lightly, granted I was pumped full of IV antibiotics for a week but I had a cousin who's appendix went while he was travelling on a train. The train had to make a special stop, he was rushed to hospital and ended up in an induced coma!

[Rev Jules]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

It's an appalling way to treat Derek like that. People call out an ambulance for much less. From experience, the crew attending are always very kind, astute and sensitive to what is going on. Given what you have said, its right to bypass the GP and get Derek in for an assessment and treatment. Are you able to pass this on Julien. A while ago, a very good friend was to be discharged home on day 2 following major surgery, even though he/she was in much pain. I suggested a way round this. Consequently he/she stayed in hospital longer and the pain control was upped. One has to do what ever is required, even be creative, in order to survive.

Jessica and I send Derek and Lilian our love.

Yes we have suggested it to Lilian,

Julien.

[Rev Jules]

Originally Posted by reworht

Another flying visit - I've currently got 0.4 mbps wifi speed, so I need to make the most of it

Julien - please pass on Angela and I's best wishes to Derek and Lilian - let us hope and pray that the medical profession will retirez their doights (to misquote the Duke of Edinburgh) and give him the attention and treatment he so obviously needs and deserves.

For my sins - I took Angela to the Gloucester Quays Retail Shopping centre today. Jeez, it's absolutely enormous, with prices of the same magnitude - all we bought was a morning paper

Tomorrow we're off to see the Slimbridge Wetlands Centre (should be a few good looking birds around ), followed by the Purton Hulks (look it up on the web - really interesting ).
Thursday is awning down and packing up day - ready for a 7.30am start to the trip home on Friday

PS - Thatchers Rosy tonight

Many thank Rod will do, when I call them again.

Rev