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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Doctors
It’s been one of those weeks! I’ve been trying to get a doctors appointment for Boo but it’s been so hard to fit one in between college and other things going on and actually having someone to take her. I need to have my car so I can do the driving, it was so much easier when the doctors were on the corner of our street, now they are about 2 miles away. Walking distance, maybe, bus distance, definitely, having to go by wheelchair, a bit of a nightmare!
Then there is the fact that I’ve just spent over an hour trying to contact Star’s doctor as I’ve messed up with her pills for her xray on Monday. The phone line is either constantly engaged or just rings out. I’m getting incredibly frustrated and I’m already an hour past her taking her next pills and I don’t know what to do until I’ve spoken to her doctor. (Ok, I’ve got through now and I’m waiting for a call back.)
Also, my doctor decided to change my consultant appointment with just 3 days notice to a Saturday, when I don’t have transport! I’ve sorted it now and hopefully I’ll be able to go. I wasn’t expecting to go for another two weeks though and the last time he called me in early it was bad news. So now I’m feeling a bit stressed, and a little frustrated that I don’t get a day off from stress on a Saturday. (It’s the only day I don’t have to worry about anything.)
I’ve also been phoning my doctors surgery this morning because I haven’t received my medication. I usually order them by the NHS app. just a few clicks and they are delivered a few days later. But they didn’t arrive. So I tried again and the app. was saying I hadn’t ordered them. I put it down to my brain fog and thought I’d imagined ordering them, so I clicked again. But no meds arrived. So I called the surgery this morning only to find out the app. Wasn’t working and now my meds are ordered and I should get them on Monday. I run out tomorrow. I can get an emergency supply if I can get someone to go to the surgery for me today. I don’t have anyone available.
Finally, BBC Doctors, the daytime soap. I watch it frequently and have done for many years. I live in their fake city of ‘Letherbridge’ I used to work at ‘Letherberbridge’ University and before we moved I lived just around the corner from ‘The Mill Health Centre’ and drove past it frequently. I’ve seen them filming many times (usually in my old area though, they don’t film this side of town.) I’ve met most of their cast, mostly when I went to see ‘Singing in the Rain’ at the theatre and ‘nurse Luca’ was playing a major role. It was weird seeing the cast walking around and one of them, ‘midwife Ruhma’ actually tapped on our car window to tell us that we’d not shut our boot properly, lol. Anyway, I don’t know why they are cancelling this soap later this year, they have won a lot of awards in the past and sometimes pull out some cracking episodes. This week they had one where it was the receptionist girl’s day off (Scarlett) and she met up with an old school friend. They had a fun day trying on clothes and having lunch in a posh restaurant. Scarlett was jealous of her friend because she seemed to have plenty of money and Scarlett had always struggled. Then we found out her friend had terminal cancer and had run away from her hospice. It ended up being her last day and it was so sad, but so well acted by all.
Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?
Hey Anne. Quite a busy week with the doctors. Most pharmacies in my area have a delivery service which you can arrange especially if you are elderly or have mobility issues. It might be worth checking if yours do. And can you believe we have never watched an episode of Doctors? Anyway, I hope you get things sorted for everyone. Sorry you are losing your Saturday but try not to worry about the things you can’t change. Maybe see it is a day out and treat yourself to something.
Hi Ladies, I don’t think you would recognise much from Doctors as they do tend to stay south of the city, they film a lot at the university and I’ve seen them in Cannon Hill Park. I didn’t mind my Saturday appointment too much, it went quick and even though we went to the wrong place it meant I got to spend sometime outside. They also took a lot of my blood 🙁 The rest of the day seemed to drag on forever, and there was me thinking that it would take up all my peace time! I do have the delivery service, but the prescription hadn’t been submitted. I’m not going cold turkey but rationing my pills so I’m taking less. I’m noticing.
Sounds like a busy and somewhat stressful week trying to sort out things with the doctors. Hope you manage to sort out a doctor’s appointment for Boo and get things sorted out with Star’s pills for her x-ray. Hope that everything is okay at your consultant’s appointment – I can imagine it is a worry with it being moved earlier. What a nightmare with sorting out your medication – hope you can manage to get the emergency supply before your medication arrives on Monday. I’ve never watched Doctors but it must be interesting seeing something like that being filmed locally. #WotW
They moved my appointment because they needed blood tests, that’s all. phew! We were told that there would be no problem with Star’s pills but I’m so hoping that this xray tomorrow shows what is wrong, because I don’t think either of us can go on much longer like this 🙁
That is a spanner in the works. Or maybe several. I hope all the logistics of your appointments work out in the end. Our surgery has a system of volunteer drivers who pick up people for appointments, but that may be well organized as we are rural and not all villages are linked together by buses. It’s a shame Doctors is cancelled. I used to love it when Casualty was filmed in Bristol and we could recognise the locations. Lost interest when it moved to Cardiff. Hope they replace it with something equally good. Thank you for hosting and I’m so excited to be joining in again.
Hello Cheryl, good to see you back. I’ll be catching up with reading later x
Hi Anne 🙂
My “word” this week is actually a 2-word phrase: “multitasking ninja”: and both Holland and I filled the role at various times 😉
It would seem, that your week also, kinda fits that phrase. LOL
On an up-note … thinags WILL get better. Have a funtastic week ahead!
Hello Valerie, nice to meet you. I’m definitely a multi-tasking ninja, lol. I’ll be catching up with reading posts later.
What a nightmare you have had with the doctors. Trying to get an appointment for Boo, the pills for Star and your medication. It sounds so stressful! I hope you have managed to get some things sorted now and your appointment with your consultant goes OK.
I haven’t seen the TV show Doctors for years. I remember Christopher Timothy being in it and that’s going back some years. It’s a shame it’s ending as I know a lot of people who do watch it and it’s always nominated in the soap awards. It might end up like Neighbours where it’s axed and then gets brought back by another channel. x
I do hope they change their mind about axing Doctors, just because they are a daytime soap doesn’t mean that they are not so good, they did try moving them to tea time but it didn’t work out, I guess there are just too many soaps to compete with. I recognise so many places they film. I’ve even been into the police station (which is real from the outside but looks like a studio on the inside because it’s nothing like that, ditto the university medical centre.) I’m trying to relax today before we are back at the hospital with Star tomorrow. Fingers crossed they can do something for her, she is so poorly at the moment x