14th December 2009

Journal Blog (Hastings Observer)

I'm beginning to find the Labour is changing things with regards to health matters to the detriment of the health of patients. Whereas there used to be an emergency but not to the effect of A & E, you could be on an SOS list...now it seems you have to go through the GP first because their hands are tied because matters have changed...then you find you cannot get to see the GP until later in the day, (in my case today) but I could say sometimes not at all, even the GP hands are tied, you are having your health sometimes put in a danger zone. Who elses fault...no-ones but the government. I never thought I would say this about Labour.

I have had this problem since Friday but because there is no GPs or ENT even at the hospital over the weekend you are stuck....perhaps I should have spent more money for them and contact a SeaDoc....I'm only going deafer still, but of course the more I look into this, the more I realise people do not care about deaf people really.

OK, so I've been to a funeral last week, I cried buckets, I had a transphenoidal pituitary operation last March, I've got menieres disease, I could go on, but I have had to put up with ear problems each year I believe it is for five years at Christmas time. I have had nothing but periodical problems with my left ear because it has a hole in the ear drum which won't heal (they call it a perforation I believe)...it seeps, it always does. I had a hearing test and was told I need a stronger aid in that left ear now...the appt is 22nd Jan 2010 - but what happens Friday, I have my hearing aid in and I think I hear what could be a rushing of water so like a fast tap of water going into a bowl in the sink or a toilet bowl, then it eases, so I go to take my hearing aid out, and of course you take it out, it seems to be stuck but I took it out because that is what happened. It felt like my ear drum moved and came with it...severe pain through my ear, down my neck, voice going, so much pain, but of course, the Labour or any government to that think about the reality of health, they only think of in real terms...money and saving it.

I am supposed to have no stress...but again, yes I went to a funeral last week. My whole system has been effected. My eyes,bleeding in evening, ears, a very severe attack of menieres which could be now attached to high blood pressure because since the 23 Nov 09 -3 days after I heard my ex-husband had died it went up high, and of course they are trying their best to prevent me having a stroke....(I've definitely been told that) - my whole head is full of gigantic tinitus, I have one hearing aid in which I was told the deafness hadn't changed, I can say that again, I'm deaf even with the aid in...but at least its a fraction of hearing (I may not be able to carry on carrying (wearing - not carrying just re-read) that one soon as I have a cartiledge problem that keeps flaring and sending severe pain into my ear bone...so was told I may not be able to wear it at all....so since this has happened I daren't put in my hearing aid...so, as the consultants and specialists are at the hospital, if the GP can only see a dried up ear which you cannot really detect - what then? Each time I have had to go to the GP before, I've always been sent to the hospital because of my delicate situation. But, if nothing on their part seen past dried up stuff, they will be none the wiser.

While I'm writing with frustration, I will make a mention of an article I saw in the NEWS OF THE WORLD, December 13, 2009 - IT'S CHEAP MEDI-SIN

Docs to prescribe budget drugs to save case by Jamie Lyons...

PATIENTS' lives will be put at risk under plans to prescribe cheaper drugs, it says it was claimed yesterday. It is the Health Chiefs (well surely they are the government also?) it does say in some cases they could KILL patients. Well, I can tell you...I have an adverse reaction to some medication...for instance...my ears - menieres disease - I have to take the proper Stugeron, I tried the cheaper one once, and I got allergic to it...made me very ill....but of course, we all know, unless something happens to one of their own they really don't care do they?

Its like my eyes...the NHS have done their best to keep my eyesight, but when I was given wrong drops once, the hospital were not happy, I have to have COSOPT....so again what do I do...? Cheaper means blind in my opinion. They are wondering about my eyes all the time...

The Health chiefs are trying to find ways of saving money, I believe at the detriment of losing lives (or so it seems) -

The article - David Prowse of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said:"We have concerns that we'll be obliged to give a different drug to the one named in a prescription. There are sometimes very good reasons for a GP prescribing a particular drug. The savings aren't huge and are quite measly when compared to the overall NHS drug budget.

It goes onto say Sue Lyon, a kidney patient from south-east London said: "Messing around with a transplant patient's drugs could be pretty serious. I don't think this has been properly thought through." Also it says Tracey Vasey of Scarborough, who has epilepsy, said: "I was given a different brand once and it made me really ill. Now I have to take exactly the same brand all the time. This could have a huge effect on people's lives.

And I say the same....you can read through these speeches basically what I have said first in what I have said about myself....

Mind you, it does end with a department of health spokesman saying: "We're aware of concerns of patients, doctors and pharmicists and will be consulting in the New Year before a decision:...

Don't you think people including myself have had enough worry and stress in this world without being given more?

A few months back my MP did help me try and sort a problem with the buses...they were willing to speak with me, but my health has been in an up and down decline and stressful, that I did put my thoughts over to an inspector in town, but I just have not been well enough to follow it through. What does this say? Trying to live a stress free life is nigh on impossible...I'm sure glad I can put my thoughts via pen/keyboard...at least it takes the negative danger from festering around the brain and maybe dying it off...I'm trying to train it anyway, trying to heal it just like Russell Watson has been his. I've got to stop because I believe my brain is getting overloaded again...but that's life ISN'T IT?