Page 15 | Durham/Newcastle/in-between 2011: the Spiglet has arrived!

Indith · 21/11/2011 13:13

That's great

spiffysquiffyspiggy · 21/11/2011 13:56

Less than 24hrs to go! Dress altered, champagne left at the restaurant to chill, clothes laid out ready. Just need to book the taxi and I think we're done. sure I've forgotten something though

stickyLFDTfingers · 21/11/2011 14:04

woohoo spiffy - have a wonderful day!

Indith · 21/11/2011 14:08

Have a lovely time!

I shall raise a (non alcoholic) , pass round some s and stand by to catch the s.

Indith · 22/11/2011 13:04

Argh!

Arrived at hospital today for dd's appointment adn they told me it had been cancelled on the 14th! I've had no letter, no phone call, no e-mail (and yes I checked my spam today when I got home to double check) I am so pissed off. Petrol plus parking for no reason. Bastards. On top of that they have not rescheduled and the woman on reception said that her referral had not been allocated to anyone on the system so no way of making another appointment an dI have to go back to the GP to try to sort it out. Urgh.

LeggyBlondeNE · 22/11/2011 15:14

That is a corker of incompetance Indith...

I hope your GP writes a Very Strongly Worded letter. Shame you aren't with MrFrozen - he got trained in medicine AND shouting at people!

KaraStarbuckThrace · 22/11/2011 16:15

Indith I think you should be put in a complaint through PALS, that is shocking! Have you let your GP know so he can put the referral through again?
How ridiculous, especially with the wait times :(

Spiggy - hope you are having a fantastic day

Indith · 22/11/2011 16:52

Have an appointment on Thursday with very lovely GP so shall ask her then how best to complain. It is really stupid, it might not seem like all that much money but I do actually plan trips to Durham and I do have to limit the amound I use the car for petrol costs so a 12 mile trip plus £2.50 parking makes quite a difference! I was starting to hope that it could be sorted before the baby arrives and I migh have a sleeping dd by then, should have known it was too good to be true. On the plus side she hasn't been too bad recently, she still screams out and thrashes around but is starting to settle herself more so I get woken up but don't always have to get out of bed.

stickyLFDTfingers · 22/11/2011 17:26

indith how utterly crap of them. It sounds like their system has broken down. They do (frequently) change DD2's appointments at the hospital, but there's always a letter through to tell me that they've changed it to some very inconvenient time. I don't understand how your referral could be "unattached". Extremely annoying.

juneybean · 22/11/2011 18:57

Ehh just to really top off your day I need to cancel botanics tomorrow, L isn't very well :/ hopefully we can arrange something else soon...

Indith · 23/11/2011 10:13

Leggy has suggested Friday cake. Would have to be lunch/early afternoon for me betwween 11am flu jab and 3.15 school pick up.

stickyLFDTfingers · 23/11/2011 11:38

ooh ooh, I could do Friday!

spiffysquiffyspiggy · 23/11/2011 11:39

I'm back! Had a lovely day and family were very happy when we told them. I know now why you are supposed to get married before kids- it is so you don't spend your wedding night cleaning up when an overexcited little girl is sick.

Indith- that is absolutely crap from the hospital- and to send you back to the GP is ridiculous. Can you phone the GP instead of having to make another appointment? If the original referral was for tonsils then I would phone the hospital and ask to speak to the ENT consultant's secretary- if you cry down the phone explain the situation then they should be able to fit you in a bit earlier than the standard appointment time. If your GP can give you a name then that will make it even easier. Honestly, consultant's secretaries have all the power- get one the right side of them and you won't need hospital admin. They will talk to your GP and get the paperwork they need. It'll be much quicker!

stickyLFDTfingers · 23/11/2011 11:45

spiggy it sounds like a least one person had a good time! Lovely to hear all the family were fine with it. I think it's a very grown up way of doing things.

Indith · 23/11/2011 11:46

Or spend it worrying about having left your pfb for the night for the first time and unable to enjoy the child free time by having copious quantities of sex because you are pregnant and the child in question is doing stupid things to the nerves in your legs.

When the dcs have all left home I'm having a proper honeymoon.

Seeing lovely Dr tomorrow so shall beg and try the consultant secretart approach. Certainly not waiting for letters in the post again.

spiffysquiffyspiggy · 23/11/2011 12:07

YY to proper honeymoon. That is our plan as well. We had to sneak off to the spare bed as DS2 decided to go to sleep right in the centre of our bed last night

My mother has spent the last 29 years dealing with hospitals and she always deals with consultant's secretaries. She says it is the quickest way to get anything done on the NHS They really can sort any problem out. I'd mention if you are free to do a cancellation or are willing to do just before Christmas to the secretary as well. They like to keep the lists full so if they know they can fill a spot at short notice or use a day that a lot of people would turn down then you will be popular!

at cake on Fri. I shall be back at work. Although I have just realised that now I have a wireless laptop at work I can MN while I'm expressing milk- woo!

KaraStarbuckThrace · 23/11/2011 15:08

Yey! Fabulous Spiggy, less fab at H sick and T taking over bed!

Actually I had some issues around DS's eye appts adn the consultant's secretary was lovely and really helpful. So deffo worth a try.

Can't make it Friday as I will be down at my mum's.

LeggyBlondeNE · 24/11/2011 16:09

Indith/Spiggy - my stepdad assured me that even after 7 years together with a combination of 3 kids, he and Mum turned into lovestruck teenagers on honeymoon, so it should be worth it when the time comes! (I didn't ask about the sex, but I can read between the lines as well as anyone!)

Re Friday - how about lunch at 12.30? Then Frozen can make it too and she and I can carry The Box maybe.

Indith · 24/11/2011 18:37

12.30 is fine. Botanics I take it?

So after Tuesday's fiasco I took dd to the lovely Gp today. She had nothing on her computer so she rang Treetops and had to explain a million times "no she turned up for the appointment. Yes she actually did turn up." Nobody seemed to know waht was going on, Treetops asked for my phone number so they could call me. Legged it to school, lovely friend had taken ds and we met them down the road from school where I was already on the phone to Treetops who were tellin gme I had to go to my GP to get another appointment . Pointed out I had been at my GP 5 mins ago where the very same GP was on the bloody phone to Treetops. Gave up, rang GP straight away and gave them the message. She must have got straight back on the phone. 5 mins later (and I am still walking with dcs, friend and her boys) someone else calls from Treetops saying she understands I would like to know why my appointment was cancelled. I say I don't so much care about that, I know sometimes consultants are called away from their clinics but it was the fact I didn't know about it and had no way of making another appointment I was annoyed about. She promised she was complaining to the Choose and Book service and they ahd lots of problems with them, it was better appointments were made direct. I pointed out since my only option for an appointment appeared to be going through GP again all that was going to result in was a letter from choose and book. Choose and Book is the only way to get an appointment initially, we don't just get handed the consultant's phone number. Apparently they don't know why it was cancelled, for some reason the consultant had rejected the referal and he wasn't around to ask why . I got a bit cross. After I got home phone rings again and it is Treetops again ringing to book me an appointment. Finally! Sadly it isn't until the 20th as the earlier ones she had clashed with 1) my MW appointment that I can reschedule for the following week as it is for my anti-d injection and 2) the funeral. Fingers crossed this time.

spiffysquiffyspiggy · 24/11/2011 20:24

do you know what my dream job would be? Being in charge of the whole NHS with a free reign to do what I liked. It is such a brilliant idea but is let down by organisation at times. It makes me want to sob with frustration (and I wasn't even on the receiving end this time!) Glad something got sorted in the end even if it will be a month later than planned.

First day back at work and I already want to scream loudly at HR I may have already sent a stroppy email As I waded my way through over 1000 emails I found 2 from them offering places on a course I've wanted to do and projects to get involved in. Unfortunately I had to reply to them before I got back from Mat leave. Apparently this is my fault for not checking my emails.

Anyone know how to say maternity related discrimination in words of one syllable as they are clearly too thick to understand the concept aaaaarrrrggghhh!

apart from that it was fine though

Indith · 24/11/2011 21:45

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It's given me lots of reading ideas already!!