It's my fault that the NHS is too expensive

[snowmash]

and I can't do anything about it :(

Hope you get meds sorted tomorrow snowmash, and sleep well tonight, everyone else too.

Yeh, second the medication being urgent - but not a big deal for them, so no reason to worry about resources.

But you'll have to go in anyway, won't you, to collect the script? So you might as well have a face-to-face meeting and deal with everything in one go.

sleep well all

Night night all, sleep well.

Wow, this thread's like the Marie Celeste today. Should I have left the hall light on last night?

Hope everyone's OK. I'm not my best, I have to admit - been asleep most of the day. Ah well, better things tomorrow, I hope.

snowmash, hope things went well at doctors.

Hi TIANC, I've just got back, but was wondering how you were, and hoping it's better than yesterday, so sorry it's not. I do hope today's rest will help.

Hello snowmash, if you're still at home, I do hope you sorted your meds and are organised, who-ever's paying for them. One of my errands today was to organise two repeat prescriptions, such a nuisance having to remember them every few weeks. Unlike you, I have mild panic every time in case I forget to do this and run out, as I know I'd feel so much worse without them.

I'm just whining cos it feels like going backwards. In the grand scheme of things a few days (even a few months) is neither here nor there - but I have to remind myself of that.

I need an "escape forwards". No point beating myself up about being a burden right now, as I can't do anything about it - well nothing that won't cause considerably more hassle. I just have to continue accepting the support now, and hope to improve enough to be useful in the future. My bar is pretty low for "useful", mind you - taking in parcels for neighbours counts at the moment!

Ho hum. More definitely the answer!

oh dear yes, remember the days when we never gave a thought to being healthy and fully mobile (well, I didn't).

At least you managed to find a nice cage!

Seems very quiet indeed without snowmash; just hope all's going well for her today.

Taking parcels in for neighbours is very useful, TIANC (in any situation, particularly with how far some of the depots can be - if you were my neighbour I'd be buying you flowers).

shodatin , I have a GP appointment tomorrow. She wasn't in until the afternoon. I am trying to remember some of what she said on the phone.

I did say that I really needed to be able to pay for my appointment tomorrow, but she kept saying I couldn't :( So I asked if she could please find out because I need to be able to pay to see her.

I don't think she quite understood that I couldn't go and see the psychiatrist or go to the hospital (because secondary care is very expensive).

snowmash could you accept one more free appointment to sort it all out?

Hello snowmash, and glad you're back with us! Even gladder you're planning to see your usual GP tomorrow, and don't worry because I'm sure she'll remember what she said on the phone and not expect you to just yet.

It could well be difficult to pay the GP directly, as not all surgeries have private patients these days. Assuming you were born here, NHS treatment is free, as I'm sure your parents paid all necessary taxes into the system on your behalf (well, mine did for me).
However, I'm sure your doctor will manage to sort something out - I'm just relieved you'll have your proper meds again.

She has said she will ask the practice manager (I thought of asking that), so I will find out tomorrow when I go.

shodatin thanks - I really need her to understand that I need private prescriptions for them. She did say I should be taking my medicines.

Hey there, good to see you snowmash. Flowers always welcome .

Yeh, it's one of those things where you feel you're not doing much, but rationally know it's a big thing for the beneficiary. I have this argument with my carer all the time: she does the same stuff for me as for her children and family, and doesn't value it - but I damn well value it, because I remember what my life was like without her.

Re the GP, snow: if you print out another copy of this thread - or just the first few pages - I'm sure she will see where you're coming from.

But I agree, shodatin, about there sometimes being no mechanisms to pay. I once went for a rabies shot in central Africa, and it was a real dilemma, because I could pay the standard consult fee - some trivial amount for a Brit - but the jab itself cost US$50 and had been provided by the WHO. I spent ages arguing about whether they had a payment mechanism, even a hospital fund-raising programme I could contribute to, but no.

Afterwards I realised I'd spent even more of their resources (time) arguing about it and should just have accepted with a good grace. I felt bad about it - but not as awful as I felt 12hrs later as the dose kicked in. Christ on a bike!

Uncontroversial advice: don't get bitten by strange animals in strange places countries! (Bite thankfully not in strange place!)

Thinking about it now, I've never paid that US$50 back directly to the WHO or the hospital which gave me the jab, but...

I have indirectly paid it back in financial and non-financial ways to neighbouring poor countries and the UK.

It's rarely a straight swap. You put in here, you take out there.

I'm glad that you've put in lots :)

is good (have carers back now)

I wish she hadn't kept saying I didn't need to pay - I'm not sure she will understand why I shouldn't be using the NHS. I've got lots of evidence going right back to when I was 14.

It's me - other people should have.

I can think of lots of times where the NHS didn't want to pay for my treatment in the past. Even primary care treatment (when I first went to uni I ended up with 6 weeks of gravity feeding with fortsips because my old PCT wouldn't pay for my feed because I'd moved, and my new one wouldn't because they said my old one should have been paying for my care). Lots of times I've only been treated through research or through long applications for funding.

This is because I shouldn't be being treated because I am bad and take all the money from the NHS.

snowmash whatever else you say and think you are not bad

So I can't tell the GP that :(

she won't believe you when you say you're bad hun

Tell her the truth, tell her what you feel, see what she says.