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<blockquote data-quote="gennepher" data-source="post: 2425505" data-attributes="member: 238814"><p>Fbg 7.9</p><p>I didn't overeat. I ate all the correct foods for me. All day I wanted a buttercream carrot cake with frosted icing, to eat the whole thing to myself. But I didn't.</p><p></p><p>So, last night for about 6 hours I was researching online on the Welsh Government site, to correct your vaccination details on the NHS app. Basically it is useless. You cannot get hold of a person to do this. What you have to do is go to your GP Surgery, have a word in your GP's shell-like, and your GP says 'oh, no problem, I'll tap a few keys and hey presto you will be on the NHS system'. I also managed to access on the Government site on 'Instructions to GP's', which even went as far as telling the GP how to exactly address and exactly write to the patient in a ton of different matters on COVID-19 and the vaccination. My problem is I don't have a GP but a poorly abominably run doctorless GP Surgery by the so called NHS. So, I Google online for the practice manager. Got Practice Manager's email.</p><p></p><p>I then come across my MP again in connection with my poorly run GP surgery. There is a dedicated email just for problems with my GP surgery. And there is a pile of horror stories there of all the problems people have with my GP surgery. Some people cannot get the surgery to sign a prescription, so have been without for weeks because there is no Pooled doctor (is what they call locums at my GP surgery) to sign the prescriptions. Even locums won't deign to attend my GP surgery. There are loads more stories which my my MP is collecting, and he got mine in an email last night.</p><p></p><p>So, an email to my practice manager today with an attachment of proof of my Covid vaccination details.</p><p></p><p>I also came across some online neighbourhood sites where people are asking why they cannot access their doctors at their surgeries (different surgeries to mine in this area) and they are told to go to the injury unit at Mold or go to Wrexham, and also saying their surgeries won't give out repeat prescriptions any more, and they don't know how to get them. Not everyone has a car, and taxi fares to do that would be well over £100. So, basic NHS care is out of reach of many in this area. And an older person with no computer understanding is left completely behind, with no medical care.</p><p></p><p>By the way I scanned the front page of the vaccination record just out of interested, actually I was photographing it for my record and Google asks me if I want to scan the text. I am thinking what for. But I let Google scan the text. Google says wait a second and then says 'a nurse from my GP practice who saw me in 2016 (my name is on this information) now works for a cancer unit in Sefton authority (Liverpool), and I am like "What?¿?" How the heck did google come up with that? There was a 240 page PDF on this and I downloaded so I could skim through it later. So just on my name and date of birth on the front of the vaccination card, no other details, Google surmises the name of my GP practice and a nurse I had seen there, and where she works now...</p><p></p><p>I looked at a couple more things on this and I did not like this rabbit hole.</p><p></p><p>I tried again logging into the NHS, to find my Covid-19 details and I went through all it would let me, which was very little. I had to open an account, and that was lengthy. I don't know what you in England had to do to open your accounts, but it insisted I had to prove I was me. Which meant answering questions, and then they needed to see a photo ID of me, which was my driving licence. I had to scan it and send it to them. Then it said it needed further photo evidence I was me. It gave me 3 options I had to choose from. None of them quite fitted a deaf person who cannot hear/make out her own voice. There is an assumption all deaf people know BSL (British Sign Language) but I don't know it. I wasn't allowed to sign as a child and I have never mixed with deaf people.</p><p></p><p>So I had to go with the hearing option. Video on and I have to say 1,2,3,4. Then the next page says we are playing this back to you, and please say if this looks like you, and also say if you can hear yourself saying 1,2,3,4 clearly. Well, it looked like me because I had just made that video. But can I hear my voice speaking back to me? Well the honest answer is 'No' because I am deaf, but I could lipread me saying 1,2,3,4. So I ticked the 'Yes' box.</p><p></p><p>Next page says we will let you know within a week if you are indeed you.</p><p></p><p>I have lost the will to live more than I have ever done in my life.</p><p></p><p>And to add insult to injury to top of my bleach bottle would not open in my arthritic hands so I had to stab the side of the top if the bleach bottle to get the bleach out. And then my coffee. The glass coffee jar refused point blank to open, it has a glass lid as well. I didn't think a hammer would work well with that...</p><p></p><p>So I started up my ice maker...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gennepher, post: 2425505, member: 238814"] Fbg 7.9 I didn't overeat. I ate all the correct foods for me. All day I wanted a buttercream carrot cake with frosted icing, to eat the whole thing to myself. But I didn't. So, last night for about 6 hours I was researching online on the Welsh Government site, to correct your vaccination details on the NHS app. Basically it is useless. You cannot get hold of a person to do this. What you have to do is go to your GP Surgery, have a word in your GP's shell-like, and your GP says 'oh, no problem, I'll tap a few keys and hey presto you will be on the NHS system'. I also managed to access on the Government site on 'Instructions to GP's', which even went as far as telling the GP how to exactly address and exactly write to the patient in a ton of different matters on COVID-19 and the vaccination. My problem is I don't have a GP but a poorly abominably run doctorless GP Surgery by the so called NHS. So, I Google online for the practice manager. Got Practice Manager's email. I then come across my MP again in connection with my poorly run GP surgery. There is a dedicated email just for problems with my GP surgery. And there is a pile of horror stories there of all the problems people have with my GP surgery. Some people cannot get the surgery to sign a prescription, so have been without for weeks because there is no Pooled doctor (is what they call locums at my GP surgery) to sign the prescriptions. Even locums won't deign to attend my GP surgery. There are loads more stories which my my MP is collecting, and he got mine in an email last night. So, an email to my practice manager today with an attachment of proof of my Covid vaccination details. I also came across some online neighbourhood sites where people are asking why they cannot access their doctors at their surgeries (different surgeries to mine in this area) and they are told to go to the injury unit at Mold or go to Wrexham, and also saying their surgeries won't give out repeat prescriptions any more, and they don't know how to get them. Not everyone has a car, and taxi fares to do that would be well over £100. So, basic NHS care is out of reach of many in this area. And an older person with no computer understanding is left completely behind, with no medical care. By the way I scanned the front page of the vaccination record just out of interested, actually I was photographing it for my record and Google asks me if I want to scan the text. I am thinking what for. But I let Google scan the text. Google says wait a second and then says 'a nurse from my GP practice who saw me in 2016 (my name is on this information) now works for a cancer unit in Sefton authority (Liverpool), and I am like "What?¿?" How the heck did google come up with that? There was a 240 page PDF on this and I downloaded so I could skim through it later. So just on my name and date of birth on the front of the vaccination card, no other details, Google surmises the name of my GP practice and a nurse I had seen there, and where she works now... I looked at a couple more things on this and I did not like this rabbit hole. I tried again logging into the NHS, to find my Covid-19 details and I went through all it would let me, which was very little. I had to open an account, and that was lengthy. I don't know what you in England had to do to open your accounts, but it insisted I had to prove I was me. Which meant answering questions, and then they needed to see a photo ID of me, which was my driving licence. I had to scan it and send it to them. Then it said it needed further photo evidence I was me. It gave me 3 options I had to choose from. None of them quite fitted a deaf person who cannot hear/make out her own voice. There is an assumption all deaf people know BSL (British Sign Language) but I don't know it. I wasn't allowed to sign as a child and I have never mixed with deaf people. So I had to go with the hearing option. Video on and I have to say 1,2,3,4. Then the next page says we are playing this back to you, and please say if this looks like you, and also say if you can hear yourself saying 1,2,3,4 clearly. Well, it looked like me because I had just made that video. But can I hear my voice speaking back to me? Well the honest answer is 'No' because I am deaf, but I could lipread me saying 1,2,3,4. So I ticked the 'Yes' box. Next page says we will let you know within a week if you are indeed you. I have lost the will to live more than I have ever done in my life. And to add insult to injury to top of my bleach bottle would not open in my arthritic hands so I had to stab the side of the top if the bleach bottle to get the bleach out. And then my coffee. The glass coffee jar refused point blank to open, it has a glass lid as well. I didn't think a hammer would work well with that... So I started up my ice maker... [/QUOTE]
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