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hospital appoinments

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roundthebend4 · 31/08/2010 22:08

argh just realised due to time of ds appoinment tomorow i have to leave here by 6,20 to get bus am as theres bus at 7,30 am from nearest town then not another one till 9,15 which get us into late as we need get another bus from chelmsford

Hate it 3 buses each way can not wait till i can drive

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fightingthela · 31/08/2010 22:13

What a nightmare! Take it it's Broomfield you're going to? Hope all goes well.

troublewithtalk · 31/08/2010 22:18

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KatyMac · 31/08/2010 22:20

DD cried after hers today & we were in the car Sad

Hope you arrive there (& then home again) safely

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roundthebend4 · 01/09/2010 05:05

Fighting yes it is broomfields am sick of travelling to differnt hospitals for differnt things wish they would centralise them .

We do 2 local hospitals one in each direction ,addenbrooks,broomfields .QE11in Welyn Garden city and now GOSH been added in

All can say is good job ds likes trains and buses

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roundthebend4 · 01/09/2010 11:11

Argh can I scream now ,we got there first could not find on screen then went of found us then waiting and then comes out we been sent appoment fir wrong clinic.

Only good thing us they did a very quick 5mimute gearing test which confirmed one ear just In normal other just outside it but said not enough to be anybpart if why has speech problems but over 3 hrs each way just because someone misread his notes

now on way home waist of a day:(

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fightingthela · 01/09/2010 11:14

All that time and fare money wasted! Sad for you.

magso · 01/09/2010 11:41

Oh no! What an awful waste!!
I have twice turned up for appointments for ds to find they had been cancelled the day before and the letter to tell me sent out second class!

TotalChaos · 01/09/2010 14:24

magso - did they not try and phone you as well as write? rtb - how crap. hope you can get your transport costs reimbursed.

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roundthebend4 · 01/09/2010 14:35

Total chaos luckily ds has bus pass that carer travels on for free but still had to pay for dd to go to holiday club as did not want to drag her

We just got in now so that's 8 hrs for zilch

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anonandlikeit · 01/09/2010 19:15

Can you get hospital transport next time?? Its actually better the further away you are as they tend to send a taxi just for you.

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roundthebend4 · 01/09/2010 20:51

am seriously condiering it just need to get them to agree they tend not to be so keen to give for dc yet when we have had lot of the elder people get on way easier than ds only downside is you can be waiting around .

Broomfields is the worse one journey wise 3 buses each eay and some of them only hourly its actually easier to get to Addenbrooks from mine

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TotalChaos · 01/09/2010 21:00

problem with hospital transport is you have to be ready to go really early, even if you have say a 12.00 appointment, they might pick you at any time from 8.30, and of course the reverse on the way home, people can end up waiting hours....

anonandlikeit · 02/09/2010 16:45

Yeh but if you live in the sticks (like us) nobody else is en route, so they just send a taxi Grin

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roundthebend4 · 02/09/2010 18:16

Annon trouble is though my house is rural it's nit far from 2 fair size towns though the one time we had transport home after ds had GA we did get to ourselves but is pretty rare

But come Xmas once can drive and wav arrives then be by by buses and trains

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