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4am pills stiff as board takes me 30 mins to hobble 5ft to the bathroom!

The problem with the referral lies with Gp they have refused to sign it off so my only option is go privately, should have done this earlier.

Managed to hobble up & feed tomatoes today still achy

Good morning everyone

I hope everyone has a good day. Charlie locked himself out he came time to ask if I could ring a locksmith in the end it came to over £2 hundred pounds. So I have a key in case it happens again.
Toady (()) do you know postmen work on a Sunday now

Stuart (()) sorry you have so much pain. Love to your mum (())

Jojo (()) you did well have a good day and feel proud

Reshmi (()) have a good day love to your mum (())

Toni (()) have a good day love to everyone

Skinny Keef (()) if I had your mug it would be on display if I had a drink in it something would happen and it would be on the floor. Love to Loanda (()) and Sucr’e (())

good afternoon Toni

How are you?

Mums ok now thanks but she had another high blood sugar situation early morning unfortunately

Dad helped her because he was awake but he was extremely nasty to her later on, as if it were her fault, he’s really become so evil these days

on a more positive note, my mum said her toothache is improving, she doesn’t need a dentist appointment just yet thanks 👍

With my Scatty brain I will probably forget, but I just wanted to ask. When are you going to France for your holiday?

Don’t worry everyone loses things

“The shrine to my sister” as I call the relatively cold room, is so cluttered with things that I’m temporarily losing things all the time lol

yes you’re right there, Mum is very sensible about medical appointments, in fact she’s so tough she will ring and she will book a doctor‘s appointment no matter how ill she is more or less, it’s frustrating. Sometimes she should let me help her

That’s good about the Aircon in the motorhome

Nasty heat today isn’t it today? At least it is here in “Reading on the Roaring Volcano” lol

Yes we could all do with a Tantrum Treat, a Children’s Choc Ice, a glorious gold and frozen fruit juice pot at the end of Reading- based granny’s rainbow - or something like that 😂😂

Yes a few hours of mima - time was great thanks, i wish it could happen more often really

Have a good afternoon Toni tc xx

👋toady Joan Jojo SK and S knee x

Ps bills bought a plant lol xx

1am cuppa.
seeing my back lady as Sucré calls her again later today. Gonna try the acupuncture again, although last time it invoked a massive immune response so gotta be careful.
Nif’s birthday today so Sucré was bouncing off the walls with excitement earlier. I bought her a caterpilla birthday cake which he thought was amazing and he couldn’t wait to open and devour.

My diy project was a very small screen for the Beemer race bike and I fitted it and tried it yesterday. From my experience with sports bikes with no fairings or naked bikes as they tend to be called, I know the smallest screen addition makes a huge difference amd when the raced my bike the factory Beemers had a small front screen to take the wind blast off the riders and was also used as a number board to display the race number.
I ordered a blank piece of acrylic cut to size and one of those bendy measuring things for doing tiling around door frames and a big block of balsa wood and a chisel amd mallet. I took a profile of the front of the bike and got Anda to cut a card template as I am useless with scissors, and then very slowly over a few days chiselled the balsa wood into a 3d form to match the 2d profile. Then after much facetube viewing on the subject of bending acrylic I borrowed my fil’s heat gun and tried not too set myself on fire bending the would be screen on the wooden form. I was very surprised to say it worked first time, and only needed slight tweaking. The acrylic did lose some of its optical see through without distortioness so I wrapped it in carbon fibre wrap to match the rest of the bikes bodywork. When I rode to Niff’s on the bike 70mph is now not trying to rip my head off or work out my skinny abbs so they burn after 5 minutes so I am very happy and it doesn’t detract from the lines of the bike either. Just waiting for my graphics to arrive from the printers and I will post pics.

The last few projects I have tried have all failed, mostly due to lack of enthusiasm due to being in too much pain, but this one was very important to me so I just did a little bit each day. Much better way of doing things, plenty of tea breaks lol.

flippin tea is cold now after typing all that

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Stuart, initial consults are about £200 think mine was £220. Follow ups are about £160 - £200.
Any tests are extra, and if equipment is used that is reusable like cameras etc you will be charged for their use/cleaning.
Blood tests can still be done on NHS if you get a shared care agreement between your consultant and GP.

My diagnosis cost me about £2500 - £3000 over 6 months and follow ups are costing about £200 every 2 months.

If I had not self referred I would not have got a diagnosis as my GP was very dismissive.

Hi frogmorton I hope you have a lovely holiday. I'm exhausted though heat and lack of sleep getting heart palpitations so rest day today before I go to work. Hope you have a great day today.