back; like a bad smell;)

[MuddyWitch]

Sorry I've not posted for a while but I have been unable to use a pc.

As some of you know, I've been 'overly female' for some time. This had resulted in me having to take tablets 'dry things up' BUT if I took them I was dopey (yes, more than normal!), unable to drive, operate heavy macinery etc, couldn't focus my eyes properly, had serious palpitations, severe depression, migrains like I've never known (& I have bad ones normally) and my breathing was like a shallow pant; not ideal for an acute astmatic. If I didn't take them I became so aneamic I was likely to need a blood transfusion! So FINALLY after six months of my Doc & me nagging, I go in next Thursday (15th) for an op that will take 15 minutes & save my life.

If I'd been rich I could have gone to the private hospital at the end of our road & had it done months ago. Faith in the NHS? NO!

MW

[Keaniebean]

Wow what a rough ride you have been having MW I really hope all goes well for you and that you are back to normal soon.

[boboff]

Sorry to hear you have not been feeling well.

Not well at all!

You have to wait a bit longer for hospital treatment some time, when it's free........

Really hope it all goes well, and be nice to the Nurses!

[Millymollymandy]

Oh Muddy I knew about some of your problems but didn't know the medication was doing that to you I'm so pleased you finally have the date to have 'it' fixed - good luck with it, fingers crossed and hopefully we'll have our lively MuddyW back again soon. xx

[MuddyWitch]

Heck it's good to be HOME!

@KB Thanks

@Boboff, of course I'll be nice to the poor overworked nurses, (& it's not been 'free': so far we've had to pay out over £100 for the wretched tablets 'cos the doc wasn't allowed to prescribe more than a week's worth at a time (I was on for months!), the hospital will do the op for free, but then I'll have more prescriptions. If Mr MW earnt about £500 per annum less I'd qualify for free 'scripts, as it is we have about £50 a week for food & £7.40 is a big chunk of that!) *and breath!

@MMM Ta

MW

[old tree man]

Hi MW how are you keeping

[Graye]

Good luck with your op and hope you will feel better soon.

It makes me mad that we are brainwashed into thinking our medical services are FREE and therefore we should just be damned grateful for anything we get. We actually pay, even if it's indirectly, via NI contributions and taxes all our working lives. And as for having to supplement that to get medication we need (or falling victim to the postcode lottery on some treatment/drugs) I find that disgraceful.

[MuddyWitch]

Watcha Russ, much better now I think is the true answer

@Graye, my thunks exactly, but as Boboff said, it's not the fault of the 'frontline' staff

MW

[Green Aura]

Oh MW, I understand a little of what you're going through.

A few years back I started falling over, crying all the time and generally being a mess. OH, normally a kind, tolerant person (at least with me ) started getting quite p*ssed off with me. It was only when I went to see a specialist eventually they discovered I was so anaemic, due, I think, to similar reasons you described, I shouldn't have been able to stand up at all

Anyway I had the op (OH had family health insurance through his work) so I'm pleased to say I didn't have to wait. Day case, a week off work, and I've never looked back.

I hope yours goes as well.

[trinder]

My goodness girl . You'll be jigin in the riggin by Easter ( is that the right quote). I never looked back xxxx Like you I put up with it for far too long.

[spider8]

Good luck with it all and take good care of yourself and hopefully it'll all be behind you

[MuddyWitch]

Awww thanks Peeps

MW

[MKG]

Hi MW.

Take things as easy as you can

Mike

[boboff]

Ineed all, not the time or place for a debate on the matter. My OH is a nurse, and has just been in Hospital herself, and it was absolutely amazing to hear the other patients who in many cases were recieving SPECTCULAR care, and their only responce was to bitch and moan incesantly.

[Graye]

I think you are right Boboff. I was in an NHS hospital for 4 nights last April and the nurses (in fact all the staff) were lovely and yet people were whinging, mainly about things the nursing staff had no control over and weren't an issue anyway. I'm not sure why people feel obliged to complain in that way, I suppose it's a bit like some people on package holidays, they are looking for things to moan about from the outset. I suppose it's just a conversational gambit - rather like the usual one, the weather - if they are confined in a ward they don't have that to comment on!

Anyway, I hope you are quickly in and out MW, and feeling great for Xmas.