The NHS loves me....
Mar. 31st, 2020 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arkessian They have sent me the 'stay in jail free' letter, which may enable me to access supermarket delivery slots. Eventually.
They have not yet responded about my heart transplant assessment, or all the other outstanding appointments I have.
But they have copied me on a letter from my cardiologist to a specialist scanning department in Oxford to do one of the scans that would have been done in London last week if they hadn't cancelled. With a new variant possible diagnosis.
So.... in the last two-and-a-bit years I have been to or have scheduled (for the same condition): Great Western Hospital Swindon; my GP; Bristol Heart Institute (several times, including insertion of a pacemaker and disabling my hearts electrical conduction system); my GP; back to Great Western; referral to the Royal Free in London for an amyloidosis assessment (cancelled because the lock-down had kicked in the day before I was to go); more Great Western including a CT scan and a bone marrow biopsy; referral to the QE hospital in Birmingham for a Heart Transplant Assessment; referral to the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for one of the scans that should have been done in London; GP for weekly blood tests; phone appointments in the diary with a haematologist and a cardiologist; a lung function test; and for light relief, an assessment of my tongue(!) as a result of a referral by my dentist who is blithely ignorant of all the rest.
All I can say is: if stuff gets scheduled during the lock-in, at least I'll be able to park.
Also, I am celebrating tonight by ordering a takeaway delivered from my local Spanish restaurant. Long may they continue!
They have not yet responded about my heart transplant assessment, or all the other outstanding appointments I have.
But they have copied me on a letter from my cardiologist to a specialist scanning department in Oxford to do one of the scans that would have been done in London last week if they hadn't cancelled. With a new variant possible diagnosis.
So.... in the last two-and-a-bit years I have been to or have scheduled (for the same condition): Great Western Hospital Swindon; my GP; Bristol Heart Institute (several times, including insertion of a pacemaker and disabling my hearts electrical conduction system); my GP; back to Great Western; referral to the Royal Free in London for an amyloidosis assessment (cancelled because the lock-down had kicked in the day before I was to go); more Great Western including a CT scan and a bone marrow biopsy; referral to the QE hospital in Birmingham for a Heart Transplant Assessment; referral to the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for one of the scans that should have been done in London; GP for weekly blood tests; phone appointments in the diary with a haematologist and a cardiologist; a lung function test; and for light relief, an assessment of my tongue(!) as a result of a referral by my dentist who is blithely ignorant of all the rest.
All I can say is: if stuff gets scheduled during the lock-in, at least I'll be able to park.
Also, I am celebrating tonight by ordering a takeaway delivered from my local Spanish restaurant. Long may they continue!
