Appointments appointments appointments.

2 Feb

I seem to spend half of my life in hospital or GP waiting rooms. I'm in phlebotomy just now waiting for a blood test. I have to have the test before I see the consultant. The consultant needs the results in front of them when I'm seen. That means I have to come at least an hour before my appointment time. Today the blood tests are running slow and it seems it might be 55 mins before I'm seen. That means I will have to wait at least an hour after that for the results to come through. 

I try really hard not to let all this stop the rest of my life but it's hard. On days like this I know I can't work. I don't like taking so much time off but I have no say and no control. Surely there has to be a better system than this? Sometimes I think the medics should experience what they inflict on us. They are all lovely people but I'm not sure they see the impact of their systems on the patients they treat. 

Let's hope after all this sitting around the result is good.

Today's appointment went well. Things are looking better than last months awful result. I have my next appointment in another hospital in a month and then a follow up with today's clinic in 8 weeks. It's a never ending cycle. I wonder what I could do to liven up these events. 

What was lovely was an unexpected lunch and a good talk with a woman who talks a lot of sense. 

Now if only I could get this awful pain to stop and regain my ability to sleep through the night. If that happened there would no stopping me.

There is a proverb that says "may you live all the days of your life" We all need to live until we die and not start dying from the moment of a difficult diagnosis.