It's my fault that the NHS is too expensive

[snowmash]

and I can't do anything about it :(

Good afternoon snowmash, or do I mean good evening?
My visitors have just left - I had a good time with them, but am now tired.
Hope you had a good day with your visitor too, and have something nice to look forward to this evening.

Good afternoon shodatin. I'm glad you had a good day - I'm tired now too.

Trying to work out what to pack for the next few days/how many clothes/blackadder vs red dwarf. Hope you have a good evening!

Is it tomorrow you're due in hospital? Do you know yet how many days? Will you have Mumsnet access?
Packing does always require good guesswork, but I'd say Blackadder every time.... and remember how warm they keep hospitals.
Hope your visitor was worth tiredness and you're feeling better for their company.

Lets just say family mediation is not one of my strong points at the moment.

Yes, it's tomorrow - hoping for less than 5 days, may be that though.

Might have internet access, it depends - don't like those patientline things.

I hope all goes well snowmash. Will you be in the JR? The patientline thingie is ridiculously slow but better than nothing. It was a lifeline when I had ds there and had to stay in while he was fighting for his life in NICU.

I would have been lost without MN

Oh my! Snowmash, you are no less deserving of medical help than anyone else, and if anyone is to blame for closing libraries, then it's the government, it's their choice to do that. They have different budgets for different things, so the library service comes from a different budget to the NHS anyway.

I'm glad you're going into hospital, you need and deserve their help right now, just as much as I or anyone else here would if we were ill.

I used to have a friend with bipolar and schizophrenia, she would have episodes like yours, and the meds have badly harmed her liver too, it's an unfortunate side effect, but certainly not one you are to blame for either.

I know what you mean about expecting people to hit you, I feel like that when I'm having a depressive episode, because that's how I was treated as a child for expressing my feelings. I'm not saying this is the case for you, I don't know your past, but I do relate to that part of it, and it's the illness that does it, nothing to do with deserving a slap at all.

Good luck in hospital xx

I need to hide this for a bit.

Will wish you good things this coming week, Feel free to

pm me any time you feel like it, and I hope you'll be in touch with us again later.
Love, S

All best for when you're back on this thread, snowmash.

Sorry I wasn't around yesterday to wish you good luck - will be thinking of you all this week.

Hey there, just checking in for the day.

Busy laundry day here, as we at last have a clear blue sky. Hurray!

Hi TIANC, Yes, beautiful day here too, so have given self the morning off (instead of fixing gate), had a pretty drive and bit of a shop in old neighbourhood, remembering this time last year when travel was difficult.
Hope all washing now dry with that special "outdoor" smell.
Also hope snowmush's hospital visit is going well, and that she knows we're thinking of her.

Hi ya.

Glad you got the morning off, shodatin, sounds lovely.

snowmash, thinking of you today.

I know I was/am right, not going to convince anyone here so shutting up.

Hey there!

Hope all went well. Have you escaped?

Not yet. I want to but can't open the door out. I told my specialist nurse about nhs and council. They.wanted me to talk to my consultant who wants me to wait and talk to a psych. I should go as taking up valuable bed space

Hello again snowmash. Hope you told the
specialist nurse how difficult it is to sleep.
Please don't worry about taking up bed-space, after all, the consultant's the expert and he thinks you should be there, and particularly to talk to the psychiatrist.
I'm sure you'll be able to leave soon, but better to see people while you're there than have to wait until you get an appointment. I do hope the meds are helping now and you're feeling better.

Serious respect for telling your nurse how things are.

Hope you're recovering well from the procedures or stuff you went in for. If the weather there has been like here, you've missed absolutely nothing - except Tuesday.

Remind me, does this country even have a spring? [fed up with no sunlight emoticon]

I just said about the nhs and council because she asked what was wrong when she came to say bye (known her several yrs, part of special surgery team). Surgeon was kind too, but this is wrong hosp for mh, so don't know what happens. Nurse has said something vague about more tests when I just said I needed to go - different from what surgeon said about talking to psych - my surgery team all gone home and I shouldn't be here - too long already, am going home today

Hope you do manage to get home today, showmash - I know it's the big goal when you're in hospital.

But if they do keep you in, surely it'll be their judgement that they need to? The hospital know their own bed availability, don't they, and I can't imagine them being careless with resources.

Omg omg omg!

Have just seen the emoticon! MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!

As you were.

Relax TIANC, and have a nice www.mumsnet.com/te/brew.gif Well that's not what I meant, but don't know how to make one on here.

Snowmash, I'm guessing you'll be home tomorrow if not today, and I hope all went well for you.

I've escaped.

the nurse wasn't being straight with me (was what the surgeon had said). i couldn't understand what the psych was saying (even when I grasped the words/sentence order), and he acted like i was stupid when he started talking about the crisis team and I said i didn't know what he meant, because I don't.

And I upset two junior doctors :(

Oh dear, poor you, and upsetting two junior doctors!

What matters is that you couldn't understand what the psych was saying about the crisis team, so I think it might be a good idea to find out. Now that you're back home, how would you feel about phoning him and asking him to explain what he was trying to say? An alternative might be to make an appointment with your usual GP and get details next week.

Did you discharge yourself snowmash, or do the hospital know you're at home? (Don't worry about the junior doctors, they're used to it)

By the way, the crisis teams are wonderful. and if you can have one to visit, I would.

Meanwhile, have a

Too tired to stay up now, so will say goodnight
and hope we all wake refreshed and revitalised in the morning.

Glad that you're happy to be home, snowmash.

Sorry things were confusing with the the psych. I totally know what you mean about grasping the words, but having no idea what the person means - especially at the end of a long and exhausting day. Oddly, builders seem to do that to me at any time of day.

Hope you'll be able to talk to the psych again when you're a bit less shattered and it'll hang together a bit better.

Also hope you get some decent sleep tonight. And you too, shodatin.

Night to you both.