Following on from Wednesday’s disastrous trip to London where the radiology department felt it was unsafe to do an MRI or CT.

The scan was requested sometime ago by their Nephrology department. The Mr Nephrology Consultant requested both kidneys to be scanned. It would be rude to tell him, if he could actually read his computer notes, ‘Eric’ software would indicate I only have one kidney. But whatever, that’ll be fun to read about if ever they do a scan.

Radiology rang me and told me all further appointments were cancelled. Please would I ignore letters, texts and Eric. I meekly agreed. No idea why they cannot train Eric to stop the inexorable flow of messages.

Late Friday ClinicalNurseSpecialist (CNS ) rang.

She seemed to know about the lack of scan. She asked if Dipstick had rung me?

I stifled a laugh and reminded her I had not heard from him since before the implant operation.. haven’t seen or heard from him since.

Ah. She replied. I think we’ve worked out the issue. There then followed a straightforward resetting of the implant which, following her instructions and secret passwords I plugged into the machinery and sure enough we realised the implant had been incorrectly set up.

So. I’ve reset it. CNS was really helpful.

No idea what happens next. No idea who set it up in the first place as I have not seen or heard from anyone who was actually at the operation.

Meanwhile I have a small paid rôle NHS England / Improvement. First meeting was this week. It was awesome to hear the efforts being made to help women. The news bit explains it better than me…

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