morning! Silver it must be in the air round our way as my DH is ill today too, it started with a sore throat and now a full on cold- he never gets colds and its knocked him for 6- he's even not gone into work today! I think honey may be a good bet too and less foul and vomit inducing than a salt water gargle. Also, if you have difficulty swallowing, you can take paracetamol to ease the pain.
SamB- how're you feeling? It must have been a pants weekend trying ot manage that pain with paracetamol- I hope you get a resolution this week.
Floozie- I hope the tests come back ok for your cyst.
AbfabT- good news about the NCT- hopefully you won't get picked on.
I went for my hospital referral last Thursday all excited that I may finally get some continuity of care. They redid all my notes and then I waited for 1.5 hours to see a doctor and when I went in, he did not even look at me and started asking questions like have you seen your midwife between 25-30 weeks and your last scan said you should have another growth scan at 32 weeks, have you had this? When I said, all confused- 'well, no not yet' he started berating me and saying that the reason for my poor care was my inability to go to these appointments. I then said....I'm 23 weeks!!!! Someone between the midwife doing my notes and him getting them had written that I was 35/40 despite my EDD being 14 Oct. He was such a tool that he confirmed my EDD and still thought I was 35 weeks. I said 'honestly! do you think I look even close to 35 weeks??!!' and that was when he reluctantly looked at me and conceded that my tiny bump on my tiny frame was unlikely to be a bump of 35 weeks gestation.
He then said that I really should be getting my antenatal midwife appointments in the community and I explained (again) that was the reason I was there as I'd barely seen my midwife and I'd organised all my own scans etc becuase of her ineptitude and also the stuff she'd written on my notes that was not true. All he could do was say that they should not be seeing me as I was fit and healthy. I asked him to actually read my referral letter and he sighed, got up and went to get a midwife to explain to me that I needed to get antenatal care in the community....left waiting in the room for ages on my own, I could not help but cry with frustration as I'd had such hopes for a decent service and was once again getting the run around. He came back in with the midwife and said to me again that I should get my care at home and the GP surgery should have a 'team' of midwives. I'd already told them they did not have a team, that they had one midwife who worked 2 days a week, but only came to this surgery every other week, but if she was on call the night before appointments would get cancelled.
So, the upshot is, they want me to try and sort out care in the community, but they have booked me in for a growth scan at 36 weeks. So I now have to go back to my surgery and try and sort something out. Not the easiest when I have lodged a complaint against the only midwife.....but hopefully I can actually give birth there. I can see it now- its going to be in the car or something isn't it??
Cheesed off wasn't the word and I genuinely do not think I am being unreasonable in hoping that someone will carry out my antenatal care.
Rant over x x x