In the race to get the latest test results NHS London Hospital won .

Got ‘ unknown’ phone call Monday.

Nurse: You have infection

(Me thinks :no surprise there “Sherlock”)

Me: What’s the antibiotic sensitivities ?

Nurse: Resistant to Nitro and CoAmox

Me: Ah those are the ones I’ve been on . What can I use instead?

Nurse: I’ll ask Consultant

Me: Great . When?

Nurse: when I see her……..next week

ME: oh. How about you email the results to me.

Nurse: mmmm I can’t do that without admin support . ….pause….silence….I can fax your GP

Me: ##**##@@’

Dipstick’s Office came a close second.

When I rang ( as instructed) . They said they were understaffed very busy and would try to find the results.

Me: ##**##@@’

In the end only 8 days after I needed it Jerome had once again sailed into battle.

Got a script sent to my chemist.

Albeit FFFF FAX …took THREE DAYS !?

and have gone back onto PEWKFULL antibiotics.

frrrrr

Dipstick? Not a word. He’s probably yawning somewhere. Meanwhile I somehow got to a House OfCommons APPG ( Continence) Committee

Awesome physio ‘D’ and I, trained in. Chattering all the way. I’ve made her chief carer.

Continence meeting went ok. I was fairly sensible …well, a couple of slip ups…

I asked Prof HSL.. ChairWoman of Royal College of GPs why msu pots were rationed by receptionists trained in the Rottweiler school of gate keeping. After all I asked. What do you think we are going to do with the pots ? Make bloody jam?

I suggested patients generally could help out here. How about we buy our own. As I’ve now found Amazon £5 for 50.

You can’t do that. She said. shock horror.

They might not be the right shape to catch pee and fit the lab machine.

Me: ##**##@@

What else..?new NHS Guidance about to come out. We’ve worked hard on that. Our chair W was there to explain. She was fab. All credit to her for getting it sorted.

A gp spoke about his surgery in London having an evidence gathering RCT based on NHS 2015 Guide recommendations,…Focus on frail elderly. I asked if not so frail not so elderly could be included.

I did allude to our eBay system of booking GP appointments. Ooops. Shouldn’t have done that. Carer D nudged me….and whispered I can’t believe you said that. Oooopppss.

Mandatory , ‘coding’ proposed for Continence. I think that means it should be recorded as a basic observation as basic as pulse temperature blood pressure etc. Good.

Then carer D whisked me home. Alas we missed train but … perchance the station forecourt was launching a fizzy snowy drink show. It’d have been rude to rush past. So wrapped in bright orange blankets, we sipped fizz out of bright orange glasses, watched the snow and grinned. Nearly missed the next train too!