OS ways and Poor Health

Hello dear friends . I want to thank everyone for their kind thoughts and good wishes for yesterday . Those thoughts are passed on to DD and it helps her to know others are thinking of her . You now need to picture a big red heart as Firefox had a hissy fit when I clicked on the heart and froze everything
We were at the hospital in plenty of time yesterday morning but had a long wait . The nurse came out to apologise as Dr was still trying to get through all the diversions and roadblocks . It was quiet and that hospital is really well laid out as they have little areas for various things rather than big waiting rooms so we chatted happily until he arrived .
This time DD got to watch the US screen and she loves all things technical so that eased things a great deal . Last time he was attacking the smaller calcium deposits so yesterday was the big lumps and was a lot more painful . He was injecting a local and steroids as he went to help .
It didn't take too long and it took a few hours afterwards before she began to feel the full impact .
I assume because he was running late he began to dictate his report while we were in the room which is something we've never seen before . I picked up the words possible complications which looking into it could mean damage to the shoulder tendons and or muscles . This is the hospital who don't copy us into their feedback letters so that's one to discuss with our Doctor on Tuesday . DD had already picked up on that possibility as she had a full view of the screen and had picked up on his struggles in the tendon and muscle areas . So we'll hope the possible doesn't mean damage has occurred .
He's arranging physio sometime in a couple of weeks . We have a choice of the four hospitals we attend plus our pain clinic but have decided to opt for our nearest hospital as the pain clinic are overstretched and she's had physio a number of times there . They know her history and conditions as they dealt with the damaged Achilles some years ago .
The referral for Barbotage was from a doctor there following our Drs X Ray requests and scans .
You can't change the past and it's better to move on but this goes back over a year to the complete inaction of the Rheumo Consultant and her team .
We will finally be face to face with her the first week in October ( unless they again push the appt forward a few more months ) which will be formal complaint time and look elsewhere .
Meanwhile once we've seen our Dr on Tuesday I will be compiling and printing a bullet point timeline of every contact and event since I and then GP first waved the red flag . All the steroids injected and oral , extra heavyweight pain relief dosages and every flipping anti biotic will be there .That one initial failure to step up has cost the NHS a lot of money , taken up the time of other health professionals and has involved miles of travel to all the hospitals except the one that actually gets the funding for dealing with a known complication of PsA .
Right rant over , as you were all . As they say it's better out than in :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Something I have discovered along the way is another benefit of these threads . As I changed my internet provider a lot of stuff in various emails covering events are out in the ether now .
This thread and one of the other two I always follow have quite a bit of those events as they happened . Most stuff was tracked in my physical diary but there were medical things happening during the PIP and ESA that I didn't add to the diary . I can't tell you how many times recently I've worked my way through every post on on this thread and the No T Words one and found those dates .
I can also now state that Ariarnia was the first to mention the "duvet cover trick " :T

I'm going to read back and be back later .
polly x

First of all while I remember I meant to mention a post by Haras aka Sarah who was about to move to Austria . I came across it again during the reading the whole thread again thing . She was diagnosed with Fibro but a great deal of her post about coping methods would be helpful to many , It's page 17 post 328 . I know many will have read it already but not all those who joined us afterwards will have read back from the start . I'm aware some ill
brave souls have plodded their way all the way through but there's much over the past year that was useful and unless you have the energy to go back you wont be aware of .

Anyway bowls . Some people like pretty, patterned colourful bowls . My change to the plain white bowl came about 6 years ago while wandering around sainsburys . Perfect bowls , not too shallow , deep or wide . They only had 2 left as they were heavily reduced and probably end of line . I searched madly for more but they weren't on the main site . Family in Yorkshire and Cheshire did the bowl hunt with nil result too .
All I can say is they are a very good option if you drop things , spill things etc.
Large dinner plates are barely used nowadays . The buddha bowl concept demonstrates how useful bowls are , they can accommodate most foods and are easier to grip than a large plate . Sadly one of the bowls was dropped and although I bought a number of different ones none of them are as perfect size and weight wise as the originals . They are however better than a plate in my view .
I'm long past the point of things needing to match but white is a good option as there is always a lot of white available .
Keeping these posts as short as possible as am having the log in when already logged in request today . Once we've seen the main Consultant and my brain is calmer it will be new browser time .
polly

Candy The more I learn the less I understand of the modern NHS . The way our surgery works here is connected care as much as possible . It works . DD was booked with the nurse for her flu injection a few hours after seeing her doctor on Tuesday , he went and fetched the vaccine and did the injection himself to save her having to return later ,done in seconds and a free slot for someone else .
Just grit your teeth and join the queue , not perfect but you need it done as you can feel the time is here for your top up .
If only we had the time and energy to rule the world , things would be different and much more common sense would prevail .
polly