NHS losing my records of past RAI treatment, and the implications

Went for my follow up x-ray today to see whether the thyroid has taken up the Radioactive Iodine, and it seems it has.  I was telling the woman who was doing the x-ray that I'd been here before and she said: 'No you haven't, we haven't got any record of you being here before this.'  The Hubs and I know that we were there about 2 years or so ago for a radioactive drink thing, where we had to spend 2 hours in the hospital to enable the gland to be seen and I had the same rigmarole then as I did today.  I get a snotty woman wanting me to lie down for the x-ray, and I can't lie down because of my back problems, she wouldn't believe me, she said: 'So you don't even want to try?'  I'm getting annoyed now because they should be helping me to get comfortable so I can have this done, not be badgered into doing it their way to make theor life easier, honestly I despair of the way the service is going.  I said, rather tiredly, cos I am knackered after this RAI last week: 'It's not a case of trying dear, I simply cannot lie down.'

I had the x-ray sitting n a chair with the camera almost up my throat, like last time.  Except that the nurses were more friendy last time, and I cannot belive they have no record of this at all.  Their demeanour is such that if we haven't got a record of it you didn't come here, but I did and I want to know what the implications are for my thyroid and my health if they have given me this present treatment wothut looking at the contra indications of last time.  Luckily, we still have the date of the test and the appointment letter, so they WILL HAVE TO look for this lost paperwork, I was not making something like this up ... honestly, I really do have better things to do.

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