General Chat

My word Sylvia,how lucky the warranty hadn't run out,and to have a courtesy
car thrown in,is a bonus. At least this way you will still have transport,whilst yours is being repaired.
Your weather seems as crazy as ours at the moment. We had very a foggy
day today,and they have forecast more snow for tommorrow.
I hope the meeting went well Ann.
Sallie my love,if that therapist has not contacted you by Friday,could you phone your doctors,and tell the surgery that she promised to get back to you,and hasn't,and could they chase it up for you.
It's not fair that they have gone so far with you,and then left you in limbo.
Well we lost again at darts,4-2 but won the pairs 2-1. But with all your good wishes I managed to finish the two games we won. who's a clever girl then. Lol.
I have heard from Jean,and bless her she is still not very well. Get well soon our Jean,we miss you.
And if you are looking in,please give J my best wishes for the 22nd,when he attends the hospital for his check up.
Big hugs for Marie,Huia, Liz, and all our friends. Love Mo xxx

Mo well done on winning the pairs. Poor Jean, my love to her and hope she feels better soon.
The meeting Mo went.... on and on..... and on. started at 10.30 and went on until 1.45 including working through eating lunch. Still have the minutes to write up.

Sylvia, great that you have nothing to pay for the car.

Oh I hate meetings like that!! Esepcially when I'm taking the minutes.

Well done on the darts Mo


Went to the phsyio this morning, really needed it as cancelling last week meant that it was 4 weeks since the last time I had seen him, and I really felt as though I had slipped back a little.

I'll see him in 2 weeks time and then in 3 weeks after that ...... and then the receptionist suggested that I make the next appointment after that ........ that led to consideration of when we were going to see the daughter. I now have appointments through to the end of APRIL!


Hope Jean feels better soon.




sylvia
xxx

Hi All,

Just a quick look in, to let you know that we are having trouble with both the internet and my lappy, so not sure when it will all get sorted. At the moment we are in Jennie's, so am using her internet and puter.

Mo, sorry your team lost at darts, you never know you might do better next week. Hope all is going well for your granddaughter and nephew.


Sylvia, good news about not having to pay to get your car done, and that it 's not going to take too long to repair it. Hope you haven't had anymore awful storms.

Ann, sorry about your meeting so long. Have you done anymore scrap pages?


Speak to you all soon.

Love, Sallie.xx

Hello all
Sylvia I hope you dont mind my asking,but what are you having physio for.
As you said four weeks between appointments,is an awful long time. All the good that has been done,can be undone in such a short time.
Oh Sallie I do hope that you can get your net problems sorted soon. It's so annoying when you cannot get connected properly.
Sorry to be so late,I don't know where the day has gone.
I am off to my bed now.
Night Night all. Take care. Love Mo xxx

Just a quick hello before I go off to bed, been watching the British TV awards, quite an entertaining programme tonight for a change, I usually get bored by it.

Yes Sallie I finished a page of the scrap book today of Granddaughter trying on her new clothes she had for Christmas.

Sylvia, that is a long tome between physio appointments.

Hi everyone

I went into my account to check my membership status, and to change it from Continuous to Single as I prefer it to be ............ and lost (in Canada) as a result


This is now the best I can be as you are not apparently allowed ( ) or spaces between words!

I usually go every 3 weeks for the physio, but I was sick last week, so had to cancel the appointment, that's why I went 4 weeks.

OK, you asked, here goes ................... I have a degenerating spine, bottom 3 or 4 vertebrae are not doing a good enough job for the muscle attachments. That affects the sacro-iliac joint that's roughly about the middle of your "bum", and then the hip ...... followed by the leg, knee and ankle if it really gets out of whack. Add to that the bursa I got in the same hip last May!

I've been having physio for it since about 1997 ....... and think it is the only reason why I am still walking. Thank heavens we went north that Christmas to stay with my sis-in-law, the combination of her very hard bed and the extremely cold weather we had then caused me to come back to Vancouver in agony, go to see the doctor, get x-rayed and thus find the problem! Otherwise, it might not have been found until much later.

Thought you might be entertained by this ..................

Just been for our regular afternoon coffee, which was rudely interrupted by police sirens

looked out the window

One police motorcycle, lights flashing, siren blaring

another police motorcycle ditto

another and another and another ....................

Finally go out onto the street to look

Police motorcycle at closest intersection blocking all traffic trying to go North on this main street

Other motorcycles leapfrogging north

No traffic now moving north, but traffic allowed to move south. No pedestrians allowed to cross the street, even with a pedestrian light.



Finally .................. huge motorcade, ca 20 black cars and limousines, led and surrounded by more motorcycles with lights flashing and sirens blaring, and rear brought up by police car, ditto


It was a practice for getting the IOC family members from the airport to downtown Vancouver.


THIS is what we have to look forward to!!!!



The Queen caused much less disturbance the last time they drove her on that route!



sylvia
xxx

Oh my lord Sylvia. I thought that sort off thing only happened in the U.S.A..
In this country,you would only get a motocade like that,if you are a murderer,and if they thought you were a danger to people,ie a terrorist.
I don't even think the queen herself warrants that kind off threatment any more. I bet you were shocked when that happened,especially as you were so close to it.
I was thinking,wouldn't it be nice,if we were able to share,how we met our OH, and did our romantic dreams come true.
Please let me know what you think.
I will be back later girls. Love to you all. Mo xxx

Helloooo where is everybody today. I hope you are all o.k.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hi there MO, I am here, but going out in a couple of hours. It is very misty here in the hills. It rained in the night so is not as hot as it has been.

Huia.

Whoops,Hi ya Huia,sorry I nearly missed you love.
How have you been keeping. Are your eyes better now.
Have you been to visit Phil lately. Oh my,I sound so nosy dont I.
I am glad it's a little cooler for you. It's surprising how a little rain can cool things down isn't it.
We have had rain nearly all day today. But at least the snow has now gone
Take care off yourself. Love Mo xxx

HI Girls,

Back again! The internet and lappy has been sorted, thank goodness, I've really missed not being able to get on here.

First of all does anyone know how Jean is? I hope she's getting better and will be back with us soon. Sending her my love and best wishes.

Sylvia, it's a shame that they can't give you an appointment for physio a bit sooner, like the others, I think four weeks is a long time to have to wait, especially with the problems you have. Do you think they might ring you with a cancellation? I had to laugh when you told us about the the police and the motorcade. At least you got a bit of entertainment while you were trying to have a nice peaceful coffee.

Huia, hope your eyes are a lot better and that all was well with Phil when last visited him.

Ann, well done on doing the scrap page of your granddaughter opening her Xmas presents. I haven't done much lately, what with one thing and another, but I've actually managed to tidy up some of my stash boxes, so at least I've done something that needed doing.

Mo, how are things are with you and the family? I hope all is going well for both your granddaughter and nephew. Your weather sounds very much like ours today, we've also had rain most of the day. We went to Hobbycraft this evening, although we didn't know for sure if it was going to be open, as there was an explosion at an electricity sub-station in Nottingham this morning and left about a third of the city without any power. It looks as though most of the power has been restored, just a small part without it now, traffic lights etc. in that part still not working.

I still haven't heard anything from the therapist, although she promised to get back to me by the beginning of last week. I'll give her until the middle of next week, as it will be three weeks when I last heard from her.

Hope everyone else is okay. Speak to to all tomorrow.

Love and best wishes to you all. Sallie.xxx

Hi everyone


it was soooooooo warm and sunny today that I went out in a skirt and a spring jacket!! It was over 10C in the early afternoon.


Not good for snow on the hills for the Olympics though!


Sallie ....... a bit of a misunderstanding. The 4 weeks was actually between the appointment I had earlier this week and the previous appointment that was before Christmas. I was away for almost 2 weeks of that time, then had to cancel an appointment because I woke up with a stomach flu of some sort that morning. The physio works from 7am to 1 pm on Monday to Thursday ............... and they know not to offer me anything earlier than 11am, so they did in fact give me the first appointment that was available under those restrictions ......... 11 am on Matt's third working day after my missed appointment.

I will now see him 2 weeks after that appointment (ie, in about 9 days time), then already have my appointments booked at 3 weekly intervals to the end of April!


Mo ....... that motorcade is going to be a regular thing I fear for the 2 weeks or so that the Olympics are on. Can't possibly have members of the International Olympics Committee being held by traffic can we??????????


I'm going to be watching the effect that the London Olympics have with great interest. I really cannot see Londoners rolling over with such eagerness as our politicos have in front of the I O C. Their demands are byond reasonableness!




sylvia

Hello all.
Just a quickie,as I have got family coming.
I had a p.m from Jean. Bless her she is still unwell. She starts to recover,
then goes back down with it again. Also the blessed vertigo is back again.
So Jean has asked me to pass on her good wishes to you all.
GET WELL SOON JEAN,we miss you.
Love to you all,speak to you tommorrow. Mo xxx

Hi all,
As you might have seen on the threads, I have been diagnosed with post concussive syndrome, which explains the lightheadedness when I go out and why I feel a bit woolly headed lol
Should improve in time, doc said 5 weeks wasn't long enough to recover totally from such a bang on the bonce!

Mo, o.h. is not the sort who would have counselling or take advice, he thinks he knows the lot and is a law unto himself, pigheaded beggar. He hasn't taken any notice of the doc's advice for me to rest, not that he was with me when I saw the doc, had to go on the bus there and back on my own as my doc is 5 miles from here - I've stayed with the practice I know.
I have emailed him a copy of the definition of p.c.s. and he can see what it all about, altho don't suppose he will bother to read it. It says irritabilty is one of the results of the injury, and last evening he kept saying I answered him aggressively, he was running on and nit picking so I jumped down his throat, I'll show him aggressive lol

Jean, hope if you are reading the threads you will see the messages to get well soon.

Huia, hope things are going smoothly for you and Phil is doing ok now and his pelvis healing well.

Sallie, Sylvia and all of you

love and hugs
Lizxxx

Hi there Liz. Please take care of yourself. We would all miss you if you had a relapse of the concussion. Or whatever.

Phil seems to be doing ok. When I went to visit on Friday he was out on a van trip. They went up Mt Eden. I dont know how much he saw (or enjoyed it) as he was asleep when the van got back. We had to wake him to get him out of the van and back into the hospital. He was walking reasonably well, and talking to me.

Huia.

Liz, I am surprised that your surgery let you stay with them if it is 5 miles. They normally want you to move to one nearer in case you need to call them out.

Well you can take a horse to water and all that. You have done your best, given him the info about what is likely to make you irritable, he will just have to put up with it if he doesn't help you. What you should try and do is rest more, maybe when he is at work and maybe not type on here as it is your head that is affected. Hope it clears up soon though.

Sorry that Jean is still unwell, do hope it clears up soon for her, especially the vertigo, I thought she had shaken that well and truly off.

If you look in Jean we are all thinking of you.

Good aternoon ladies.
Liz,my goodness you don't do things by halves do you. Please take it easy
and only do what you have to. Let him indoors wait. Surely he is not completely blind and can see how you are suffering. Honestly, men can be a right pain sometimes. Especially when they have been spoilt, by others,and can't see any further than the end off their noses.
Huia,It is good news about Phil. It's nice that they take the patients out for
the day. It gives them a different outlook.
No wonder Phil was tired,he has been so cooped up,for so long bless him. And it's not your fault either,so please dont think I am thinking on those lines.
Hi Ann,good to see you. How are you keeping.
I went to bingo this afternoon with my daughter. I had a little luck,and won £15.00,my daughter won £50.00 that she had to share with two others.
BUT,they have a link game,which paid out £1,000 for one line,£2,000 for two lines,and £3.000 for a full house. One off the people in our club won the £3,000,but because she had the number five in the number she called up on,she won an extra £25,000,making £28,000 all together. Now how lucky was that.
Well I am going to go and sit in the corner and sulk. Bye for now. Love Mo xxx

Your turn next time maybe Mo, but you did win something!

Well as I put on another thread, the email went over o.h.'s head and he is no more bothered about my lightheadedness now than he was last week!

Huia, I am so glad Phil had an outing and maybe did some walking altho I hope he didn't do too much till his pelvis is properly healed. Nice for you to see him tired from fresh air hopefully and talking to you too.

Mo glad you had a little luck, maybe next time you will get the bigger prize. Better than nothing tho eh?

I will only do what I feel up to but have slept quite a lot this weekend so that's helped and will have a good sleep this morning I hope, once o.h. gets up and goes to work in about half an hour.
Ann, thought I remembered reading about this some time back, and no my surgery hasn't bothered that I am not nearby at the mo. They know I want to move back home eventually.

GP catchment areas to end under NHS plans
Catchment areas and closed lists for GPs will be effectively ended under new plans announced by ministers to make it easier for people to choose their doctor.

By Andrew Porter, Political Editor and Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Published: 7:50PM BST 30 Jun 2008

For the first time the right to choice in healthcare will be enshrined in law under the new NHS Constitution.

Ministers want to make it easier for patients to move between GP practices to reward good quality care and drive up standards.


Currently many GP practices draw up very tight boundaries meaning patients who live on the wrong side of the street or 100m too far away are not allowed to join their list.

And there are also funding problems that mean successful doctors who attract more patients but who cannot take them on.

Under the NHS Next Stage Review conducted by junior health minister and surgeon Lord Darzi, ministers want to ensure that funding follows the patient to make it easier to switch GP.

This will mean scrapping the minimum practice income guarantee that was introduced in 2003 to ensure surgeries did not lose money as the payment of GPs was reorganised.

While it will make it easier to register with a practice near work instead of near home, it would be impossible to allow patients to register with any GP surgery. Patients need to live reasonably near their GP practice so home visits and out of hours care can be provided practically.

The website, NHS Choices, will be expanded to include more comparative information about the range of services offered by GP practices in each area, their opening times, the views of local patients, and their performance against quality measurements to help patients choose.

They will also be allowed to ask for their preferred doctor.

Primary Care Trusts should also develop local NHS information packs for people who have just moved house that help them choose their new GP.

NHS Choices may also allow patients to register with doctors electronically.

The NHS Constitution says: "You have the right to choose your GP practice, and to be accepted by that practice, unless there are reasonable grounds to refuse, in which case you will be informed of those reasons.

"You have the right to express a preference for using a particular doctor within your GP practice, and for the practice to try to comply."

Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, told MPs: "Patients will be given more rights and control over health and care. They will have greater choice of GP practice, with better information to make the best choices for themselves and their families."

Regardless of where patients live they will be able to choose a GP. It means people working in London can choose a doctor nearer to work than home for convenience.

They will also be able to express a preference for choosing a particular doctor.

Gordon Brown and Mr Johnson used the 60th anniversary of the NHS to unveil the year-long review into the health service. It was carried out by Lord Darzi, the junior health minister.

In a speech Mr Brown said: "Just as people can now choose which hospital they go to for their operation, so they will now have a right to choose which GP they register with for the day-to-day care."

But Andrew Lansley, the Shadow Health Secretary, said: "In January 2006 Patricia Hewitt (then Health Secretary) promised that patients would be given a real choice of GP and that they would stop practices being able to say that they were open but full. She also pledged to phase out the system whereby GPs only receive 70 per cent of the normal level of funding if a patient transfers to their practice which disincentivises doctors from taking on new patients.

"I would have more respect for Labour if they had delivered this the first time round rather than recycling old commitments."


Thanks for the good wishes,
Lizxx