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🏖HELLO FORKERS 🍦 AUG ‘22 🏖

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Must give a big shout out to the NHS [ although I am fully aware it has its faults ]
    Moira went into hospital at 7.00, theatre at 8.30, and I can collect her anytime after lunch.
    I should add, none of this is special treatment for me, except the surgeon phoning me as soon as he was done. he recognised the name and asked Moira.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I LOVE the NHS
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hostafan1 said:
    I LOVE the NHS
    Snap!  And any government that doesn’t fund it properly should be found guilty of treason. Most folk in the UK have no option but to rely on it. 
    An attack on the NHS is an attack on us. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Afternoon all.

    Thoughts to @punkdoc and wife today. Keep strong for each other.

    Big hedge cutting job today - 3/4 done so a break required now. 

    I hope everyone is doing ok.
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Hi everyone,  not been specially busy but trying to catch up on our absence last week. All the pots we moved to shade are now back in their proper place.  
    We have had our Acer man here today, it's the same one I work with at Capel.  He's  very good but boy does he like to talk. Anyway I got him to explain more about what he does to OH, hopefully we can carry on from what he's done a bit better now. I  am learning but as I  always say OH has a better eye  than me  for structure and form. 
    Best wishes to all with medical issues. 
    AB Still learning

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Have to admit I don't love the NHS as much as I did. Still waiting to hear from the West Suffolk hospital about OH's operation. They never replied to the letter from his GP surgery a few weeks ago and they knew nothing about his referral from the private hospital that the NHS referred OH to 2 1/2 years ago as they said it was urgent. The surgeon had said he could fit in the operation in February when the lung function test results were due but the lung function tests were postponed to March. Then op was for 24th August, cancelled for the 5th time as OH was referred to the NHS hospital. No news.

    Sorry, you must be fed up with my moaning about it, but OH is in pain, bad side leg is very skinny, one leg is now shorter that the other from walking crookedly as he can't stand on the right leg.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    hugs to you both @Busy-Lizzie.
    Before I had my hip done in 2005, I was in a very similar situation.
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Your situation is totally wrong, @Busy-Lizzie.
    Try contacting your MP, Local Press, etc. Something really ought to have happened by now.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Our MP is Liz Truss @punkdoc. She's too busy trying to be Prime Minister.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Why don't you try her @Busy-Lizzie, if her staff are on the ball, they might just bring it to her attention and being cynical, she'd get good publicity if she sorted it. 

    I do understand it's a bit more difficult as it's not  actually you but your OH who must jump up and down and perhaps he's not the sort of person to do so. The situation must be so frustrating for you.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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