Christmas is coming. The snow is on the heights.
Please put a Russian in the old man’s sights.
If you haven’t got a Russian, a Nazi will do.
If you haven’t got a Nazi, God bless you.
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At the moment, the two seem much the same…
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Oof flump
Been for my B12 and had a smear test while I was there as one does for fun
Also got a lot of things on prescription that are not usually needed all the time
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Thanks for the reminder: owing to the naff computer system the doctor has gone over to, I must print out my request for my repeat prescriptions and get it down to the surgery, or I shall run out what with the time-lag being over a week because of the naff computer system. (sigh)
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Keeping on top of meds and prescriptions is nearly a full time job for the Bull who is meticulous in his duties as my personal drug dealer bless him
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That’s an Bluddy Nuisance, Fishy.
I can order mine online, & they are sent to my nominated Pharmacy, which, handily, is just across the road for when Bolleaux are dropped.
Frustratingly mixed messages after I eventually saw an Dr this afternoon, so I am not going to take her word for anything, until I see/experience some improvement.
I didn’t get home until 17:30, & was so famished that I had to have an Martyr sandwich.
I could certainly manage an Personalised Lobster though…
Please
Carinthia. xx
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[scribblity] [scribblity]
This Lobster Belongs To Carinthia So Hands Off
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Just to give you a basket of hugs dear friend
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Yes, until they “improved” the system so could I. Now I can’t, because their computer system doesn’t like my computer, and so I have to take my request in writing to my doctor’s surgery, from which it is transmitted to a surgery in the next town over, from which it is sent back to be dispatched to the pharmacy just up the road from my doctor’s surgery. This means it takes five or six working days instead of three between order and prescription being filled – which wouldn’t matter except that I may not order medication more than seven days before it will have run out. In effect, I have a one-day window in which to canter to my doctor’s with the written request. That window was today.
If the pharmacist in the next town over questions anything on that list, I have to go over to the next town over and thump on the reception desk and be scary, which is bad for my blood-pressure (as I explained to them last time).
When the doctors and the warfarin folk and the cardio mob and the endo experts all get their acts together at the same time so that I need the same medication for more than a month running, I could have it all done automatically, but I don’t actually trust any of them to get that right, especially since the nice oncology bloke at the hospital has now twice sent me copies of the letters that he has sent to the surgery, which letters to the surgery seem to have been addressed to a doctor who was never my doctor, at a different surgery from the one I attend (possibly the one in the next town over), and who (according to the receptionist I saw today) left the other surgery more than a year ago. Goodness only knows where those letters are ending up; I am keeping my copies very carefully.
One way and another I feel they may all be a bit unreliable, not to say downright flaky.
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Oh, and it is all complicated by the medication being by the calendar month, and the surgery not being open at weekends.
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Dearie me, Carinthia xx. I’m sorry to read that.
I received an email, this afternoon, informing me that I am permanently excused from jury service. So, that’s good and unequivocal.
Soo xx
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Kinell, Fishy.
Ponders an cantering Fish
Reaches for an Medicinal…
We are allowed to order 2 weeks before medication is actually needed, & my ordering is dictated by my Thyroxine, which comes in 28 day blister packs & for which I have no spares.
Everything else I have acquired an ‘extra’ weeks worth, & I will be doing the same with the Thyroxine too.
My surgery uses the SystmOnline App, which I have used for years, or the NHS App, which I haven’t.
That must be an relief, Soo
Proffers Pitchers
Carinthia. xx
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Cheers, Dear!
Soo xx
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I get my prescription for 6 months’ meds sent to G by my doctor and the odds and ends when needed
Odds and ends like the ibuprofen gel for the screwmatticky hips and shoulders and poppy juice pills are ordered as I need the beasties
Well done twin!
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I think that contraceptive pills are issued in 3 months supply, & my HRT ones are, but I don’t know of anything that would be issued for 6 months here.
Carinthia. xx
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It works well with the doctor prescribing regular meds and sending 6 months’ worth of usual meds at a time
It also gives G a break as she can fill prescriptions when they get a quiet ish day
It also suits our GP who claims to be allergic to paperwork…
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Our Practice has thousands of patients & I could forsee an awful lot of medication going to waste.
Carinthia. xx
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How do they fill in their days, I wonder. I really don’t understand the role of the GP, now, and am not wishing to be overly critical.
We’ve had a pleasant day, pootlling about countryside and coast and consider ourselves fortunate.
Soo xx
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