Steve M wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:40 pm
I did some ‘slowing down’ today - new laminate for the hallway ready for new stair carpet in a couple of weeks.
This taking it easy lark is hard work!
Still struggling with uncontrollable coughing, even had to take a couple of days off work, but life goes on and today’s slowing down exercise has been to remove all the furniture from two rooms and lift all the old carpet and underlay ready for the fitters tomorrow.
Only two chairs and a TV left in the room - just like when we first got married.
Had my scan this morning. The report seems to use the word ‘normal’ quite a lot.
I’ll drop it off at the GP surgery later and see what they have to say about it.
When I went to the hospital last Friday, they said 'Things are normal.' (I have been going every so on since I was sixteen years of age.)
Then they discharged me.
With your comments I am beginning to wonder. Have the doctors' given up on me?
Glencairn
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I Cannot Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought.
It seems to be becoming the norm that long term monitoring of patients isn't taking place (based on my limited experience). My mother was 'discharged' from the orthopaedic surgeons list after a lot of 'every 3 years reviews' although the design and life expectancy of the replacement knees haven't changed.
My own experience of reviews was that the registrar wished to discharge me 6 years ago and I asked for a 3 or 5 year review. 3 yrs later at the review (for a revised hip replacement) the next registrar (they're rarely the same and I very rarely see the surgeon) was willing to investigate my knee complaint and ask for a 3 yr review of that!)
Early discharge reduces the number of patients a hospital has to monitor, even when monitoring is a cost saving action.
20200113_163342 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr
or is all this memsahib’s idea?
