Had a sh t day. Got to Southampton Hospital for my allergy challenge testing only to be met with "ooh, we didn't think you'd make it in. Errr, none of the doctors we need have managed to get in today". So I manage to drive to and from Crawley on Monday and make it 55 miles across Dorset and Hants this morning yet the staff at the hospital can't manage a few miles. I even offered to go and collect a few of them, free of charge. Didn't go down well.
So that's me £600 down compared with where I would have been had I not had to horlicks around over the last 48 hours for this hospital appointment and no further forward with the anaphylaxis testing. They stressed that it could kill me and that I'd been lucky last time, so they want a full team there. They forget that I live with this every day and that I could have an attack sat in the hotel, at home or pretty much anywhere so the risk was mine to take. No ice broken there, pun intended. They wouldn't even throw away the fresh crab I'd had to buy to bring along for the testing. No facilities it seems. So they can dispose of a gangrenous limb, but having made me buy a fresh crab to see if it would kill me they then tell me I have to take it away with me again.
'kin to$$ers
Then some little shi7s throw a lump of ice at my car as I'm coming away from the hospital. One emergency stop and 30 seconds of pounding down the road and I've tackled the miscreant and put him over a fence into a pile of snow for his troubles. His mates then come up and start doing the angry monkey at me. You know the one, prancing around like a hyperactive lemur yelling "come on then!". I told them if you were old enough to grow a set they'd take a swing and make my day. A sudden onset of common sense on their part and it's game over, I'm back in the car and they've gained a valuable lesson in how fast short fat blokes can run when they're pished off. I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
3rd Feb 2009 7:10 pm
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know what you mean - youngest daughters school's closed today - all the kids can get there, just the bloody teachers who now live miles away cant be arsed. When I was at primary school, all the teachers lived within walking distance.
Also got hit with snow (ice) ball, back window drivers side. made a bloody huge bang, thought window had gone - couldn't catch the scroats though. Probably luckier that hitting a panel though.
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3rd Feb 2009 7:59 pm
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sounds if you didn't have a particularly good day ND
sue the sods for your time and thump the living daylights out of the little sh!t!
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3rd Feb 2009 8:01 pm
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Sorry to hear that ND, I bet all weekend and yesterday it was playing on your mind having to have those tests, and to get let down you by the hospital you will have to go through it all again
I do hope in all kindness that you get to the bottom of it though.
As for the journey, that would have been equally stressfull, so not a great week for you so far. Hope it gets better
3rd Feb 2009 9:12 pm
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Disturbing the 'peace' in the NHS .....and beating up 7 year olds ... Tut tut Alan .....tut tut
Schools closed - H+S apparently - afraid the teacher would be sued if little Johnny fell over and banged his head. what a load of bo k
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3rd Feb 2009 9:31 pm
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funny you say about snowballs, last evening sat dozing on the sofa, her thud at the window, waited a moment, then another thud awokened me from my part slumber, went over to the living room window to find this teenager wearing a hoodey, scarf up around his face, looking like some terrorist lobbing snowballs at my living room window, ran out the front door after he got scared off a few mins later, headed him and two other of his mates off around the corner and rugby tackled him to the ground with an almight thud, did'nt even see me coming, stuffed a handful of snow in his gob and said " d'you like playing in the snow then !"
Would'nt mind but we live on a private shared driveway, appears he's the little scoat I got arrested in 2005 shortly after moving in smashing windows at the community centre, not likely to throw snowball at my house again!!!!
Disturbing the 'peace' in the NHS .....and beating up 7 year olds ... Tut tut Alan .....tut tut
17 DG, but close in mental age As for disturbing the peace, I was icily calm. I think that was what worried them
Little Miss Do$h is off on a school activity holiday tomorrow. Headmaster has assured them all that it will take icebergs on the A35 to prevent them going. Kids all mightily relieved (nearly as relieved as the parents).
Cheers for the thoughts MacClown (working on all the comedy alternatives for your name at the moment. Well, the clean ones at least )I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
3rd Feb 2009 9:44 pm
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Sounds like a really bad day ND. Better make sure you get a long range forecast next time and e mail it to the To$$ers and tell them to be there as you will be Global Warming.... I'm luvvin it
Nice idea Shrinky. I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
3rd Feb 2009 10:01 pm
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Well at least you didn't have to eat crab again
3rd Feb 2009 11:18 pm
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Sorry to hear that they screwed you around, ND. I think you have it right about the staff - where there's a will, there's a way - and I don't mean to denigrate vocational people who try hard to maintain the service. When I moved overseas I was happy to find that when the hospital asks you to make an appointment they expect you and them to keep it. I never found that in the UK - ever - on the NHS or on Harley Street. I'm happy to be out of it.
3rd Feb 2009 11:49 pm
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Bad day sorry to hear abour your wasted time.
Decided my girl's headteacher is a top bloke "this school's never been closed due to bad weather and I'm not about to do so now"
Someone at SWMBO's work phoned in at 8.55 saying they were just about to start digging themself out as it was really bad (5 mins before due start time ) Arrived in at 10.30. Full of sympathy took the poor soul to the rest room for a hot drink......with a colleague who lives one road further away and had arrived at......8.56!!!
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on the drive to work on Monday I was bombed on a side panel from one of a group of scrotes waiting at a bus stop (all attend the lowest performing secondary school in all of Stockport - you get the idea) - didn't see the sh*tbag copper behind me stop and have a word with them mind too busy to get back to his warm police station for a brew I reckon Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
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t day. Got to Southampton Hospital for my allergy challenge testing only to be met with "ooh, we didn't think you'd make it in. Errr, none of the doctors we need have managed to get in today". So I manage to drive to and from Crawley on Monday and make it 55 miles across Dorset and Hants this morning yet the staff at the hospital can't manage a few miles. I even offered to go and collect a few of them, free of charge. Didn't go down well.
Sorry to hear that ND, I bet all weekend and yesterday it was playing on your mind having to have those tests, and to get let down you by the hospital you will have to go through it all again 
