How is everyone today?
Still bleeding, but i have a private consultation with Unbeliever's consultant at three today so WISH ME LUCK. I am hoping he can give me an injection of avastin or something, I will beg for it unless he tells me there is good medical reasons not to have it.
I saw my GP today for a sick note, I was very weepy as just started to bleed on the way there (I can cope with everything now except fresh bleeding), there was not a lot he could do, but he gave me some diazepam to cope with the stress of it all.
Anyway, Unbeliever thinks very highly of her consultant so I hope he can do something for me.
The Nhs hospital is being rubbish by the way. I was seen in emergency clinic last week and told I was on the list for the emergency laser clinic, phoned up to find out when and told no such clinic exists and I've been referred back to my consultant (???)
Was told 'sometimes the consultants get it wrong'. Struggled very hard not to get shirty with the person i was speaking to, it's not her fault, but I told her I did not think my care was being prioritised. She told me to speak to my consultant's secretary, which I did, relaying my symptoms down the phone to her and she's going to speak to the consultant, but it seems such a haphazard way of going about it, I'm lucky I can have this private consultation today.
Although, i was reading on an american site, about a woman who had a massive bleed, could not see out of one eye, on the way to the hospital they phone her up to tell her she's not insured so cannot be treated - she was unable to get it treated at all. lso read of another sufferer who could not afford insulin for a year and got really bad bilaterl pdr as a result. So things like that make me appreciate the NHS - they're not great but it could be a lot worse.