My Life In An Eggshell

Monday, 22 March 2010

Thyroid Doctor Not Responding

So now it's nearly three weeks since I was unceremoniously 'discharged' by my thyroid doc. After I get her letter explaining things, I sent an email in reply, telling her I was not happy being discharged as I've still not had the promised scan. I am not being discharged until I've had one, I need to know what's going on inside. I'm not convinced by her just looking at my neck or her comments that 'your thyroid has shrunk nicely' - it may well have done but are the nodules still there? if not, why am I still feeling all the things I had there BEFORE I had the Radioactive Iodine? I want to go back and see her and that's what I said. This was on 8th March but I was then informed by the secretary that the doctor was on holiday again and would be back on 15th March. I waited a few days after this to give her time to get back in and when nothing had happened by Thursday 18th March I called again. This time the secretary told me the doctor had my email and was 'dealing with it herself' and guess what, it's now Monday 22nd march and still nothing. Bet she forgets. But I've told the secretary that I'll call again in another two weeks if I don't hear anything and failing that, I'll have to get my GP to send me back to her and start the useless messing about in the merry go round system. Apparently now, the hospital I go to has introduced a triage system of appointments - ever heard such rubbish? It goes on though. Now, you get an appopintment but in sinsister overtones further down the letter it says that the appointment date is merely a pending appointment which means it has to be passed by a triage assessment and if they think you are 'seriously ill' enough to see a doctor then you'll see one, otherwise you are, I hate this saying, 'released back to the care of your own GP.' Now, considering the GP is the one referring you to the hospital, what's the point? The point is, they mess around with your health, they pass the buck, by the time you've fought through the system you could be dead (which, secretly I think that's what they want - one more name ticked off the list then). Imagine how much luck I'm going to have getting back in to see my thyropid doc as I've been 'discharged.' Why do these idiots in the administration think this is a good way of saving money, it probably is to them, but they alwyas foregt they are there to serve the patients, not the other way round. All this nonsense comes at the expense of the patients well-being. The last thing I need right now is to go fight this lot to get to see my thyroid doc again, despite her assertions to the contraty that it's easy to come back - oh yeah? - you try it.

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Sorry BBC but it's still a huge Boo with added Hiss here and there

How can you have the nerve to show, wait for it, Special Highlights from the Paralymic Games? Parading your 'commentary' before us claiming 54 medals have been contested over the last 9 days. yeah, WE KNOW. One question: BBC where were you???

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Sunday, 21 March 2010

No More Dancing on Adverts, sorry, Ice, for me

What is it with the present run of Dancing on Ice? Is it necessary to have one skating couple's performance, their scores and judges comments immediately followed by an advert break? - hey, anything to drag out this spectacle for a whole hour.

They should rename this show: Dancing on Adverts and/or Pantomime Audience Screaming as that's all we get, as well as the rather daft studio manager encouraging the even dafter (and therefore gullible) audience to boo the judges if they say something the audience don't like and to cheer and scream madly when the judges say something the audience agrees with. No doubt these moronic studio mangers must be no older than 10 years old as all this screaming and booing, especially when poor Jason Gardiner is trying to comment is so rude.

I'm tearing up my DOI Loyalty Card because of it now, and will watch something else from now on; it's too much hassle. The audience have no manners and neither do the childish studio managers who obviously think it makes for great viewing - NEWSFLASH MORONS - IT DOESN'T.

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The present Husband, Mr Malaprop!

Hubs just came out with a corker. I'm channel surfing to see what's on tonight (BBC wall to wall sport) other channels not much but I came across a channel with a film called: Caramel. Hubs pipes up: 'isn't that an opera?'

'No dear' I reply slowly, 'that would be Carmen' - SIGH!

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Not voting Tory? then expect Labour to be re-elected!

Not that I have much truck with the Tories under Cameron (their last, greatest leader was Mrs Thatcher imho - can just see her putting up with uncontrolled immigration and bending over backwards for the EU - NOT) but if those misguided, sniffy idiots amongst us who smugly claim 'No vote from me Dave, I'm voting Independence' because they take umbrage at one yes one, teeny tiny argument in the manifesto think they'll get an independent party elected they are sadly mistaken but then they are literally too stupid to realise that. In reality, much as we'd love to have UKIP elected and therefore get us OUT of the EU, we are stuck with Dave and his Tory party. If we don't vote in our millions for the Tories then we can expect another five years of Labour and that will include five MORE years of uncontrolled immigration, jobs and factories closing, British workers passed over in favour of foreign nationals, illegal immigrants living in YOUR back gardens, ineffective policing, council snoopers being given the green light to come into YOUR home when THEY like to 're-evaluate your council tax' - seems under labour, we have NO rights to privacy at all, we are sleepwalking into a Stasi state but hey, those idiots amongst us will blindly carry on voting for anyone but Tory and then will be bleating that 'they can't understand how Labour got in again' - well here's why I'm spelling it out for you, vote independence and see what you land us with. I cannot believe we are such a nation of idiots.

Why has the 'Cadbury's' Creme Egg taste gone from great to horrible?

You really can't answer that? Well, it's because of cheaper products creeping in to the mix - literally. Don't know what they've done to them but the Creme Egg is a complete no-no for me now and I used to love them. The last few I've had taste diabolical, like there is something 'off' in the mix. They do not taste like they used to; they were delicious. Coincidence that Kraft have just taken them over? No, not really, us Cadbury eaters were warning furiously that this would happen and sadly the Creme Egg is just the first casualty, wait till they shift everything to Poland and then see how bad and uneatable the whole 'Cadbury' range becomes, sadly the Creme Egg debacle has just started the rot ...

You were warned not to mess with the formula Kraft!

Saturday, 20 March 2010

VGA Card 'Buzzing'

Working on the computer is now getting to be a problem. The VGA Card inside the box is buzzing so loud it gives me a headache. Apparently the fan and it's ball bearings are failing and we have to have a new one! Oh Joy! Firstly it was thought that it was the main fan failing so hubs goes out (in a nark) to get one, throwing his toys out of his pram left, right and centre. Every little thing that goes wrong he HAS to make a crisis out of it, it gets wearing on the nerves y'know. It's got so bad now that I've only got one nerve left - AND HE KEEPS GETTING ON IT!!!!!! Turns out, after all the gnashing of teeth and the tantrums that it wasn't the main fan but the VGA card (and fan) so that just made things worse. This racket is so bad it sounds like there is a wasp or six hundred thousand in there!!!

One day I'll live a quiet, peaceful, untroubled life - but it's not here yet.