Rheummy app

julie47

Afternoon all

Just to say i go for rheummy app tomorrow.

Just a little apprehensive as it is at a different hospital. After 22 years under the same person i wonder what to expect.

Got my folder ready with, blood test results,
medication list and dates of the last 4 chest xrays as they are from january onwards.

is there anything i have forgot.
will let you know how it went tomorrow sometime
love juliepf x

dreamdaisy

What about a sample of wee? I have to take one to every consultant appointment, so enquire about that (if it's not too late). We'll be with you, some in spirit, some in your pockets, please let us know how you get on. DD

wibberley

Good luck tomorrow. I can understand you're nervous - I was with the rheummy for over 20 years until I changed from private to NHS 8 months ago (no regrets!).

Lois x

julie47

Thanks DD yes I have a bottle in a drawer, will get it out. Good thinking

Thanks lois I hope I have no regrets , but my rheummy dr was retiring so it gave me an opportunity to move to a hosp nearer me.

juliepf x

elnafinn

Hi Julie

Just to wish you all the very best at your appointment. Must feel strange seeing someone else after all those years. If you have thought of any questions, best write them down as sometimes they can be forgotten during the appointment. Do let us know how you go on.

Luv and gentle hugs
Elna x

barbara12

Hi Julie
Good luck for tomorrow, will be thinking about you, you will be fine honest.
Love
Barbara xx

dorcas

Hi Julie,

It's sometimes good to get a fresh pair of eyes when you've been attending the same consultant for so long.... but I can understand too that you feel a wee bit nervous.
but I'm sure you will be fine too

You sound really well organised with your folder and all.... trust our DD to remember how important 'wee' is. (different 'wee' from the meaning it has when we scots say it)

love and ((((hugs)))) for tomorrow...what time we off then?

Iris xxxx

tillytop

Good luck tomorrow Julie. Will be thinking of you.

Love Tilly x

julie47

Thank you everyone for your support

elna Questions (check) Cant find a tick on keyboard
thanks

Babycham hope you are not too uncomfortable with having everything crossed, thank you

Barbara you are right i will be fine. They might hve a shock when they see what arthur has done to me over time.

Iris a fresh pair of eyes that is a good way to look at it. New ideas, (as long as there is no surgery mentioned), appointment is at 9am.

tillytop thankyou for thinking of me


I will repor back tomorrow thanks guys
.love juliepf xx

marion1952

Hope all goes well tomorrow Julie ..

Marion x

ironic

Hi Julie,

Good luck from me too. 9am is early so hopefully you will not be delayed for long.
Oh...Clean Bridget Jones knickers are a must

Lv, Ix

frogmorton

Dont know if you will see this before you go, but Julie - best of luck - I hope you don't need it.

Hugs and will be thinking of you

LOve

Toni xx

dreamdaisy

Morning pf - needless to say, I am thinking of you. Please let us know how you get on, if you can. DD

julie47

Good afternoon everyone

Rheummy app went well thankyou all for your support.

Was well equipped with info, and just as well as gp only gave skeleton info.
Gave her dates of chest xrays,plural iffusion,bloods,amputation and recent op on the stump.
She has a lot of follow ups to do as all these things are at different hospitals (too long to explain to you, just say I am complicated and she has her work cut out)
Atleast now though I have had some xrays and bloods in her hospital web and she should be able to access them.

They weighed me and asked Don't suppose you have a wee sample
to which I replied Oh yes as a matter of fact I do. (so thank you DD for reminding me. Hubby had to sit me in the weighing chair after her daft question Are you able to get in on your own :roll:
I am staying on all meds for the moment until she has got more answers from my gp and the proff. I am quite happy on them anyway. I had a neck xray done as I have recently had problems there and its been causing headaches.

I think my next app is in 3 months time, It comes through the post. Only thing i florgot is eye test because of hydroxi, but I will make an app at vision ex. Next app is for new leg or this one if it still fits, on tuesday. Oh my I am popular but for all the wrong reasons. Glad Richards work is so understanding.

Love Juliepfxx

dreamdaisy

Oh I bet she felt so embarassed when she asked you if you could access the chair - I think they do sometimes go into auto mode, think how many times a day she asks that! I'm glad the wee paid off! Imagine taking that in for no reason! All in all, julie47pf, it sounds a pretty good appointment - let's hope all the follow-up stuff follows on quite fast: it's not long until Tuesday now! Did you like her? Do you think you will get on OK with her? DD

annie_mial

Glad it all went well, Julie. Hope you are having a good rest now. Hospital appointments always tire me out, even the most mundane ones.......dunno why.

It's always good to feel that you can progress, so good luck with the Tuesday appointment.

Annie
xx

dorcas

Hi Julie PF

Glad you've got that appointment over and that the new rheummy was OK....even if she did, foolishly, expect you to get on the weighing chair on your own. :roll:

Lots of appointments yet to come for you PF?.... so keep us posted so's we can be in your pockets again (next time Tuesday), and for all the rest.

rest up tonight as Annie said.... these hoosie appointments are exhausting.!

Oh.... and gold star for DD for suggesting the 'wee' sample. :

Iris xx

marion1952

Hi Julie

Glad to hear you had a pretty reasonable appointment..

I always insist on taking my shoes and watch off when I get in that weighing chair - every little bit helps!!!

Best wishes

Marion

tillytop

Hi Julie, so glad you had a good appointment! Given the lack of info provided by your GP, just shows how important it is to go prepared doesn't it! Hopefully you have found a good consultant, - a rare thing indeed in my experience!

Love Tilly x

woodbon

Hi, Glad things went well for you. Going to different hospitals is a bore, we used to have to do it in Oxford as the hospitals are like departments and the orthopeadic hospital dosn't do anything but that. At least they are linked with computers now, which should be better but I bet things go wrong!!! :? Love Sue

trisher

Julie

Sorry I'm late off the planet at the moment with the steroids.
I suppose they just don't see us do they???

Glad the appointment was good

Love Trish xxxx

dreamdaisy

Oh trisher, I think you are right about that. I guess they look without seeing. An extra complication/difficulty/insult that you and pf just don't need. Grrrrrrr. DD

julie47

Morning all you lovely peope

Thank you for all your kind words

Was just a bit disappointed yesterday when district nurse took of the dressing on my stump wound. I expected it to now be a scab or better still healed properly. It is still wet and we are still putting manuka honey on. She was quite pleased but she is a different nurse every time. I told her (when i eventually got stump in air to try to see that its the same as when it was seen by the vasc nurse)

I think my expectations of manuka honey was that it was magic.

As you all know I go on tuesday to yet another hosp for prosthetic app . I see a doctor there, will see what she has to say about wound. (i know from experience not a lot)
and see if my leg fits still. will let you all know .

Anyway i should prob be patient and wait till i see vascular again on 22nd. Hope it is better and all my fuss is just temp.

sorry about my moan dont want to dampen your day

Hope you all feel good.
love juliepf x

dreamdaisy

I missed this somehow - :shock: Not like me at all, I do apologise julie. So it's tomorrow that you are off for another apppointment - has the honey done nothing yet? Keep using it, perhaps the effect builds over time. This must be so frustrating for you pf, I am so sorry. Are we coming with you tomorrow? If so, I'll organise people! DD

julie47

hi DD

I have just clashed with this thread, I have just opened a post saying i am going on a prosthetic app.

would love you all to come with me

thankyou

you are prob right will have to wait for honey to work.

perhaps buy the sort you can sprad on toast as well and have double dose

love juliepf x

dorcas

Hi Julie PF

Sorry to hear that the stump wound is persistently the same......
It's a roller coaster watching and waiting and hopeing for wounds to heal. :roll:

Will be with you tomorrow...if not in the forum bus then in one of your pockets.


hope you will at least have the vascular doc taking a look at your wound and offering more advice or treatments.

love and more healing ((((hugs))))

Iris xxx