I'm here and not yet allergy-tested. Grrrr. 2 hour journey each way to have a numpty consultant rock up 45 mins late, no apology, no explanation (the nurses got twitchy and said maybe he'd forgotten he had any patients that afternoon) and then just take a bloody history he could have taken over the phone. What is the effing point, eh? Cost me £30 to get there and I lost a day's work. He said yes, I should be tested (oh, thank you SIR, is what I think I was supposed to say), but he would have to refer it to the bean-counters to OK it. Then he also took a history of my supposed anaphylaxis (which is not antibiotic-related), which centres on some unfortunate incidents in the early 90s and back then resulted in a referral to another NHS allergy consultant who assured me that I would need to carry an Epipen for the rest of forever.
Based on the history and subsequent events etc, the new consultant pronounced the diagnosis from back then a load of tosh and said I shouldn't bother with the Epipen forthwith. Although he couldn't "be absolutely sure, of course". This does my anxiety levels not a lot of good. Although, if he is right, it's good. But then why have they not ever reviewed this before? And how much else in my med records (rather fat ones, as it happens) is a load of outdated old bollocks??
I didn't even ask for this bloody referral. My GP made a song and dance after another allergic reaction to a different type of anti-bs in October.
MrsS, sorry to hear about the travails of the international move. I am not surprised you are not feeling too splendid healthwise. I'm amazed you are still upright and keeping going.
As regards family admin, I am effectively a single parent in anything to do with dd because dh doesn't have PR. He does not exist as far as the schools are concerned. And of course because it is like that for dd, it has been that way for ds too, although of course dh has no excuse in that case.