APPOINTEMENT AT LAST!!!

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hileena111
hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
edited 16. Nov 2011, 05:30 in Living with Arthritis archive
Well at last.....after numerous phone calls to his secretary and some nagging :wink: I've eventually got an appointment to see this gallbladder consultant about the results of my CT scan. Monday 4.30pm
When I rang his secretary last Monday she said the results wern't in but later on {after I asked her to chase them up} She said the doc had already seen them and was going to talk to his x ray buddies the next day.....(Tuesday)....So today when I still hadnt heard i rang again. His secretary was on holiday and the girl I spoke to said "I've just asked appointments to send a letter to you...an appt on Monday. Then she said....all our mail goes 2nd class so i doubt that you'll get the letter before then" :shock: :shock: but please come anyway. So if I hadnt rung today and no letter had arrived on Monday and I hadnt gone....no doubt it would have been me at fault for missing an appointment. Oh well .....never mind...we'll see what he says this time or who he refers me to next :roll:
Thanks for all the support from everyone when I had so many appointments one after the other.
Love
Hileena
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  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Aw Hileena, I cannot believe all the chasing up you have had to do. :roll: Perhaps you should ask them if you can work there. It would be a hundred times more efficiently run. :smile:

    Please do not stand for any nonsense when you turn up and if they dare to say something like, you are not on the list today. I am sure you would not. I hope you have the name of this person you spoke to today and heard verbally when your appointment is.

    I do hope that you have a good weekend and wish you all the very best with your appointment next week.

    Love
    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
  • nearlybionic
    nearlybionic Member Posts: 1,901
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Hileena
    Its a good job that you are on the ball!! Good luck for Monday xx
    NB
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Hileena
    Good on you for chasing this up, honestly the phoning round you have done, anyway I will be in your pocket on Monday..and good luck with it all.
    Love
    Barbara
  • kellerman
    kellerman Non-active member Posts: 741
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Well,Thank goodness for that.Seems you've been waiting for ages.
    Hopefully you won't start going round in circles again.
    Will try and be with you but as you know things are a bit hectic at the moment. Regardless you know I'll be with you in spirit.

    Take care Hileena and refuse to leave until you get some answers.
    Love May
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Elna Pet
    Thanks for your support......working there.....not a bad idea LOL :lol:
    How are you feeling now?
    Thanks NB
    Let you all know what he says on Mon
    Hi Barbara
    Thanks for the pocket duty
    Hi May
    Yes I know your situation and although you might not be in my pocket you'll be there :lol: You have plenty on your plate to worry about.
    Love to Jackie.....and you take it easy. i wont leave until I get the answers...dont worry about that :lol:
    Love
    Hileena
  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Well done, Hileena! I must say I had been thinking that you hadn't had a hospital appt of one sort or another for....a week or two? Ages by your current standards! I hope all goes well. I shall be thinking of you.
    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
    Steven Wright
  • cloud9
    cloud9 Non-active member Posts: 385
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Well done Hileena. It's such a shame when we have to do ALL the footwork to get results huh? Hope all goes well on Monday. I'm up for pocket duties if you need? XX
    Sue (Cloud9)
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,425
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Ok Hileena

    finally we have an appointment!!!

    Well done you for being so assertive, persistent and firm. Proud of you lass :wink:

    Pocket duties then for Monday afternoon - no problem.

    Love

    Toni xx
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Sticky
    Yes its been ages....by my standards :lol::lol::lol:
    Sue ...thanks for the pocket duties.
    Toni....thanks as well....we'll have a full house again :lol: or full pockets should I say. It will be interesting to hear his waffle this time :lol:
    Love
    Hileena
  • traluvie
    traluvie Non-active member Posts: 2,579
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Hillena,

    What a rigmarole that was, but you got there in the end, good on you..
    Quite shocking though that you may have missed the appointment if you hadn't rang..

    will be with you on monday for pocket duties ..

    Take care..x
    th_tn_TisFORTIGGER.jpgxxTracyxx
  • tkachev
    tkachev Non-active member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    All the best for Monday Hileena.

    Elizabeth xxx
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Tracy and Elizsbeth
    Well its Sat and the letter didnt arrive today....not likely to come tomorrow :lol: Mon is possible {it'll be interesting to see} I dont leave until about 3.30pm so I'll get the post.
    Thanks for the support and pcoket duty
    Love Hileena
  • ironic
    ironic Non-active member Posts: 2,361
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Hileena,
    Good for you for persisting with getting the appointment. I wonder how many have been left by the wayside with their strange system. :roll:

    I will be thinking of you on Monday and I do hope there is no more messing about for you this time.

    Lv, I x
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi I
    It would be lovely if there was no more messing about.
    The GP said the other day......your fractured pelvis and fractured SI joint seem to have cleared.....I said yes. She took me off the mnorphine I was on for that.
    She then asked about the results of the CT scan....I said I hadnt a clue so she had said get on and pressure them although everything might have cleared now but you need an appointment to know that.....wouldnt that be great.....
    .Of course thats not counting the arthur, scoliosis or epilepsy :lol: but if all this messing about was sorted i would be happy. Then would pressure her to send me to a pain clinic. Paracetamol and slow release naproxam isnt enough for the pain.....I need something to fall back on if I'm really sore.
    Love
    Hileena
  • traluvie
    traluvie Non-active member Posts: 2,579
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hope all goes well tom..

    Shall be with you, am making cakes in the morning with my neice so shall bring some along to pocket duties..xx
    th_tn_TisFORTIGGER.jpgxxTracyxx
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Ohhhhhh Cakes :grin:
    You'll be a friend for life :lol:

    Love
    Hileena
  • ironic
    ironic Non-active member Posts: 2,361
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Hileena,
    How are you feeling without the morphine meds? I am pleased that the factures seem to be healed for you that was so scary for you on top of everything else. What a year it has been for you. Fingers crossed that tomorrow has some good news. Do you think your doctor would refer you to the pain clinic all things being equal?? I do hope so.

    Gentle hugs,

    Lv, I x
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi I,
    I'm not sure how i feel without the morphine.....its been a week now and for the past 3 days I've been much sorer than normal. Dont know if thats coincidence??
    I'm on paracetamol and naproxen slow release 2 a day. I was on diclofenic...slow release 2 a day when i started with this doc and she changed it. Normally you would know which tablet was better for you but it was shortly after that that I was put on the morphine....which I needed at that time so its hard to tell....are they not working as well for me as the diclofenic?? I did ask her at the time why she was changing them.....now that surprise you doesnt it......timid little me asking questions :lol::lol::lol: She said they were much the same but nap was better for your heart than diclo.??
    As for the pain clinic....she did say she would refer me to one for the "old" pain {arthur} once we got this lot sorted. So with a little bit of luck he might say...cant find anything and that will be that???? Optimist :lol:
    I have to see her {GP} on Fri for the results of a blood test.....have been on iron for 3 months and she think I should be OK now so had a blood test done and see her next Fri so I'll fire all the questions about pain clinic painkillers anti inflamms etc at her. then
    Sorry for the essay :wink:
    Love
    Hileena
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Morning all
    The postman has been and gone.....lots of mail.....most of it bumph :lol:
    but no letter from the hospital saying i have an appointment today :roll:
    Did I really expect it?? Not really :grin:
    Isnt it typical......so it does pay to nag them....at least you find out they have made an appt for you even if you have no confirmation
    Love
    Hileena
  • ironic
    ironic Non-active member Posts: 2,361
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Hileena,

    Well I hope all is going well for you today and hopefully your appointment is on time.
    I remember you did do very well on the diclos so that is a shame that she has changed them. I hope the iron tables have done the trick and you can at least come off those. Yes do ask her again about returning to the diclos if things have not improved by then.

    Hope your evening is a better one tonight.
    Lv, I x
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Everyone
    Well thanks for all your support.....when I went in to see the doc....his first words the first time i saw him were "I dont know why they sent you to me"...wonderful....Today the first words were....."well I thought i should talk to you face to face and not by letter".......my stomach did about half a dozen flip flops. Up until now I hadnt thought about anything serious.....just a blinkin nuisance going from opne to the other and from scan to scan etc
    So he started at the beginning.....he then ended with "well we know all the things that aren't wrong.....your bile duct is slightly wider at the top than normal but I've checked back to 2003 and you had some similar tests and it was exactly the same. If anything your liver tests are getting better so I think we'll leave it for about 3 months and I'll see you again but if you have any symptoms call my secretary and I'll see you right away..if not you'll get an appt in 3 to 3 and a half months You came to me for an ERCP but i still dont feel justified in doing it"
    So that was it....thank goodness......not exactly discharged but looks as if that is the end of it
    Love
    Hileena
  • scozzie
    scozzie Non-active member Posts: 333
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Well done Hileena, Scozzie
  • traluvie
    traluvie Non-active member Posts: 2,579
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    If it's not one thing luvie it's something else eh?
    Hope things get moving for you soon . Take care. X
    th_tn_TisFORTIGGER.jpgxxTracyxx
  • skezier
    skezier Non-active member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    hi Hileena,

    its a sort of result i guess and hopefully it will all stay settled and be kind to you. are you still feeling sick though? hope your not for sure. leaving tea in and special mug and a hug Cris xx
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Non-active member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Scozzie, Tracy and Cris
    Thanks.....I'm happy enough....after I got over the initial shock of him wanting to speak to me face to face :lol: That sounded as if he was going to tell me something very serious :???:
    After the amount of consultants and scans I'll take that as a good result. :lol:
    I know he wants to see me again in 3 to 4 months time......but thats OK doesnt sound as if anything more is going to be done.
    I'll concentrate on the GP getting me to a pain clinic now or else changing my meds herself for the arthur.
    Cris pet.....no I'm not feeling sick these days and my appetite is back. Still not keen on spicey food and I used to love it but thats nothing :grin: What about you? You arent supposed to be on posting :roll: Just reading!!!!! Thanks for the tea...hope there's no sugar in it this time :lol:
    Love
    Hileena

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