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davidgillonI've just been looking at the mail that piled up while I was away. If you exclude magazines, about 30% of it is for hospital appointments.
Admittedly two of the three are for the same appointment, just one of those was for the date I had to reschedule through not being at the same end of the country. And the final version of that one, tomorrow's appointment to look at my infected toe, is quite likely to lead to further appointments if they don't sort it out on the spot, which I suspect they won't when I point out I had problems with wounds reopening after last year's gall bladder surgery and that hypermobility complicates local anaesthetics. If they do it on the spot, great, but I suspect they won't, and then there's potential follow-ups.
The other is the second wheelchair assessment appointment, and I know that I'm due at least one more after that. The good news is I didn't expect it so quickly, it's for the 26th, and they knew I was unavailable until the 14th, so given I was warned it wouldn't be fast, but it was then upgraded to 'high priority', that suggests that their high priority actually is pretty fast. Of course then they have to build the thing....
It's good these things are getting done, but they are complicating life. I had to shift my fortnight in Durham because of the first wheelchair appointment, which combined with my sister's already booked holiday meant she and I couldn't see a solicitor together while I was there to start the power of attorney process for Dad (which is likely to turn into the Court of Protection process, hence solicitor from the outset rather than doing it ourselves) before the school holidays ended and she's back to being unavailable during the business week. That's the second time it's happened, and I've had to tell her to do it herself when she next has an opportunity, because I just can't guarantee to be available.
Fingers crossed for no more unexpected ones, but my neck and shoulder do show potential signs of being a problem again - the orthopod I'm seeing tomorrow may well be the one I saw about last year's shoulder issue, and he did say it was only a matter of time until I'd be back....
Admittedly two of the three are for the same appointment, just one of those was for the date I had to reschedule through not being at the same end of the country. And the final version of that one, tomorrow's appointment to look at my infected toe, is quite likely to lead to further appointments if they don't sort it out on the spot, which I suspect they won't when I point out I had problems with wounds reopening after last year's gall bladder surgery and that hypermobility complicates local anaesthetics. If they do it on the spot, great, but I suspect they won't, and then there's potential follow-ups.
The other is the second wheelchair assessment appointment, and I know that I'm due at least one more after that. The good news is I didn't expect it so quickly, it's for the 26th, and they knew I was unavailable until the 14th, so given I was warned it wouldn't be fast, but it was then upgraded to 'high priority', that suggests that their high priority actually is pretty fast. Of course then they have to build the thing....
It's good these things are getting done, but they are complicating life. I had to shift my fortnight in Durham because of the first wheelchair appointment, which combined with my sister's already booked holiday meant she and I couldn't see a solicitor together while I was there to start the power of attorney process for Dad (which is likely to turn into the Court of Protection process, hence solicitor from the outset rather than doing it ourselves) before the school holidays ended and she's back to being unavailable during the business week. That's the second time it's happened, and I've had to tell her to do it herself when she next has an opportunity, because I just can't guarantee to be available.
Fingers crossed for no more unexpected ones, but my neck and shoulder do show potential signs of being a problem again - the orthopod I'm seeing tomorrow may well be the one I saw about last year's shoulder issue, and he did say it was only a matter of time until I'd be back....
