Bénch

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

I am a fat bastard

Just a quick update on my health .

Yesterday morning I went to see the consultant at The Ear Nose & Throat Clinic at Calderdale Royal Hospital , Halifax.

( He was a really nice bloke)

I was half expecting to hear him mutter words like "Thyroid" & "Cancer" .But instead he gave me a clean bill of health, other than saying if I lost a couple of stone , my wobbly -neck should vanish .

Which is a great relief, obviously . 'Seems I am still immortal , for another few days at least....!

Although it might beg a few questions as to why I was there in the first place?

At the end of the examination with the consultant , for want of something else to say , I asked him to translate the blood tests the GP had taken over two weeks ago.

It turns out they showed my thyroids were ok . Had I known this ,I would not have spent all this time worrying and 'imagining the worst' . .

I should really have been having having these conversations with my GP ( who I have neither seen or spoken to, throughout this whole process........)

Saturday, June 05, 2021

This Week

My Cancer /Thyroid appointment is now on Monday 14th June at 11 am

I had my blood pressure checked again today (possibility of me going on tablets for this !) Another check in a couple of weeks..hey-hoy!)

Here are some photos from the week...

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Week-begining-30th-May-2021/

Saturday, May 29, 2021

An hour after my last post : my "Fast Tracked 14 days" appointment cancelled...... In theory I have a legal right to being seen within 14 days. The deadline for that would be next Friday ( the 4th June )

Plus my blood results now online. 4 out of 5 ok .but the other one not so (see details)

Maybe my invisible GP will translate eventually.......? Weekend & Bank Holiday means nobody to talk to about it until Tuesday ...providing I can get past the receptionist!

Maybe I will post on facebook and ask "Is There A Doctor In The House" ?

Anyway...... I bought some Vit D tablets this evening . I'm thinking "Thyroids" ?

Leeds and next week's hospital visit

I went with Chris into Leeds yesterday. He had a meeting there .While he was in it, I had time to kill ,so I wandered around Holbeck ( not a place I know) and took these photos.

I had my bloods tested on Thursday.

I go to hospital next Wednesday :"fast track" urgent referred..."to rule out the possibility of ......" the letter said I still havn't seen ,or even spoken to my GP .All I've had has been a 5 minute face-to face with a Practice Nurse ..and the hospital appointment was made before bloods were even taken. I honestly do not know what to think ....or how to think it !

A rather existentially nervous weekend for me!

Maybe ( probably!) I will feel differently about it next week. But at present I feel abandoned by my GP's . No doubt they are doing a grand job of box-ticking (quick referal etc) but it feels like they are just washing their hands of me....... it would have been nice to have had a human voice to explain events.....

Adding insult, it feels automated & impersonal. For example I have had two automatic text messages sent me this week that have been contradictory & inaccurate. So i spend my time talking to receptionists about their mistakes rather than my feelings .

But ,on the issue itself, there is silence. ! " Holistic Medicine" is so " 20th Century" it seems......

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine

Saturday, May 22, 2021

in Hebden Bridge : 𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 !

Friday, May 21, 2021

The Dreaming Room.

After month's of very little , suddenly all sorts of stuff has been happening these past days...

◙ It was Cath's Birthday today.

◙ I had my second Covid jab on Wednesday.

◙ I have also seen the Practice Nurse at my GP's about a goiter-type thingy on my neck.

◙ I am having blood tests next week and the week after ( 2nd June) I have a 30 minute appointment at the EN&T Department at Calderdale Royal Hospital . I'm thinking...maybe even hoping, it's 'just' a thyroid affair...I mean it's not hurting or any other symptoms...I only went to the GP because of the vanity of how it looked..saying that , i have felt a bit ' rundown ', but that's about it.

◙ The day afterwards ,Thursday 3rd June, i have booked a session at Harrogate Turkish Baths . My first sweat in 15 months!

◙ On Friday 4th June I go to this gig ( again my first since covid lockdown) .It's run by Richard Walker , who i used to work with at Calderdale MBC,