Hug as well as a winner. I find sleeping in a recliner very comfortable, but probably not as comfortable as a bed, if you can manage to stay in it.
There are occasional medication reviews and, for some even occasional health reviews, but there is little consistency in their application. GPs here have been known to continue habit forming medication for ages without review and it is up to the patient to decide when enough is enough. This is why I was put onto the separate tablets for pain relief, because I told a GP I felt I was being tied in to the higher doses of codeine and wanted to reduce the level while still keeping some in the prescription for really bad days. But it was up to me to work it out for myself. Same with DIL, she is on higher levels of pain relief than I am at present (slipped disk high in her neck which would otherwise stop her working) but she had to work out for herself how much she should be taking. As it happens, she is a qualified nurse and has a pretty good idea of what she can and can't take.
Ours are the same. I can only get information if the blood test shows some problem which needs addressing. I have just received a letter with an appointment at our hospital medical clinic which should only be once in 6 months - the last one was about 3 months ago. I think they forgot to order blood tests last time, so maybe that's why they want to see me again. I should have had an ultrasound scan of my liver, but that never happened, so maybe they forgot to order that as well. Without the blood tests, they can't tell if my anaemia is back, or if my liver function, or kidney function is deteriorating or even hba1c.
Of course, we have to respect local custom and shouldn't seek to change it. Doesn't mean we have to enjoy it.We can't expect the natives to be like the British used to be.
Some of us went to Tunisia in the eighties on a birding trip and the locals always went to the front of standing files at Customs.
Some of us ask for non smoking seats on the French plane at London and they let all the smokers on first and they sat where they liked. The non smokers went on last an we sat amongst the smokers.
One old English guy got irate in a queue, how they all went to the front of queues but he was told to keep quiet it wasn't his country. True.
Coming back I remember it was a beautiful day and we flew past the Matterhorn I guess it was about 50 miles away.
D.
Thank you @gennepher. I am worried that my levels have been high for so long that damage is being caused to who knows what.
As long as you're very careful...nothing usually.
Thanks@dunelm. I have an appointment on Thursday with the GP who increased my medication last time. (The earliest available). I made that in advance to discuss my results and future actions. My results didn't arrive until yesterday ( Saturday) when the practice was closed so if they see them on Monday and think it is urgent they may ring me on Monday to make an earlier appointment with another doctor.??
Saw the post before you took one of the attachments out, Ian. Both very interesting.
Do you think it is worth putting the other one back? Oh well, here goes nothing. Thanks to John Crace for that. There was a better quote but it had the f word and y'all are prim and proper.
It's not far wrong.
The software is even more prim and proper. Saves offending some, I guess. There are times when I am irritated by politically correct software, but I suppose it protects some sensitivities, so I should be more patient. Just wondering - would the software refuse to upload an attachment with "unacceptable" words in it?
It's not far wrong.
A friend tells me that may be ok but best to warn people there is language people may find offensive. I find the word A*****l highly offensive
- we all have our boundaries.
Not that I would dream of wanting to offend anyone, so wouldn't post such a message. I tend not to be offended by "sweary" words, or even anglo-saxon based words. What I am offended by is that political correctness which undermines the English language by assigning trendy meanings to perfectly good words. I guess I have not been "awakened" - I actually don't know what "woke" is, nor do I want to. In my book woke is the past tense of a verb, not a noun. I so hate the silliness that prevents me calling a bird by its accepted name, without titters from the ignoramuses, or being asterisked out by prudish software, or other suchlike examples.A friend tells me that may be ok but best to warn people there is language people may find offensive. I find the word A*****l highly offensive
