Doctors appointment...doctor sat there with my notes up on the screen...
D: So what exactly do you have wrong with you?
M: Well I've not been sleeping
D: no no, not that, what about your disabilities you said you're disabled
M: yes it's on my notes, I have fibromyalgia, ehlers-danlos-syndrome and arthritis.
D: oh right. And what do you do for work?
M: I'm disabled...
D: so you just sit and do nothing?
M: no I have hobbies and I raise my children
D: how do you take care of your children if you're so tired
M: the youngest is 6... its not like he's a newborn he can amuse himself.
D: yes but still needs his mother
M: and he still has his mother
D: yes but you're disabled
M: yes. That doesn't stop me being a mother.
D: well you've tried zopiclone there's nothing I can do for you, phone your mental health team.
Cheers doc. Helpful. I'm furious. He was more concerned with my parenting or possible lack of it than he was with my sleep being none existent.
On top of that I have a depressed teen who was threatened with a knife the other day and so far police have done nothing. I've lodged a complaint to them about their lack of action. When a 13 year old dials 999 because an older boy is waving a knife in his face I expect them to do more than "well we have no evidence he has a knife so we can't search him" despite there being witnesses to back my son up
<sigh>