tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post8202215447596325107..comments2023-11-01T02:06:39.543+11:00Comments on Ella's child - family stories and other: Middle Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962830669606760640noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-28947556770891679222007-03-09T17:53:00.000+11:002007-03-09T17:53:00.000+11:00Cazzies suggestion of Casualty is a good one.Re th...Cazzies suggestion of Casualty is a good one.<BR/><BR/>Re the pets: I wish I could fly in and mind them for you but have you thought of trying<BR/><BR/>housecarers.com a housesitting website.<BR/>Housesitters don't get paid and you deserve to be lucky and find somebody near to care for archimedes.<BR/><BR/>much loveBwcaBrowniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11500142856655553009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-62527969287905582492007-03-07T00:44:00.000+11:002007-03-07T00:44:00.000+11:00Thanks Jin and JahtehThanks Jin and JahtehMiddle Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962830669606760640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-8010521427002552362007-03-06T13:25:00.000+11:002007-03-06T13:25:00.000+11:00I must say that our family doctor and surgeon for ...I must say that our family doctor and surgeon for 25 years, before he passed on was the best of the best and so we were thoroughly spoiled for any doctor afterwards.<BR/>He sat down and with two finger typing (old typewriter) gave us all of Dad's medical records for years to try and help us get him the TPI. The only people he didn't like were the ones that didn't help themselves and he never turned down a home visit to an elderly patient. <BR/>Rosemary is right about the cleaning but my sister, a Div 2 nurse doesn't mind getting stuck in with the milton and the white king. It was how she was trained and she never wears gloves just doing her ordinary work, she washes her hands constantly. Some nurses think the gloves are for their protection not the patients.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-8331702413514705692007-03-05T23:12:00.000+11:002007-03-05T23:12:00.000+11:00What a terrible experience!I am hoping the best fo...What a terrible experience!<BR/><BR/>I am hoping the best for you & Don!<BR/><BR/>I can't stand doctors either. I have lost too many wonderful customers to them. *sigh*jinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03272996941412810621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-61794716131168891922007-03-05T16:19:00.000+11:002007-03-05T16:19:00.000+11:00Your aunt and uncle deserve medals and justice bec...Your aunt and uncle deserve medals and justice because we have a good idea of the stupidity they have had to fight, as I said " Like fighting with air."Middle Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962830669606760640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-83669780179262531432007-03-05T16:18:00.000+11:002007-03-05T16:18:00.000+11:00Rosemary... you saw the best of it - hospitals the...Rosemary... you saw the best of it - hospitals these days are all filthy... no one scrubs any more...I was a hospital cleaner once and we scrubbed, but were also paid well and treated decently...<BR/><BR/>Don's doc is a dumb arrogant prick...nothing elseMiddle Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962830669606760640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-17728030700980293402007-03-05T16:16:00.000+11:002007-03-05T16:16:00.000+11:00Sling...Ahm sooo glad I didn't marry a doctor...I'...Sling...Ahm sooo glad I didn't marry a doctor...I'd much rather my open minded and curious (in many ways) backhoe operator, pipe layer, trench digger... and big hearted carer of my sisters in their troubles...<BR/><BR/>Like when mu mum needed things done (before Don's accident) he climed up on rooves, did useful things in the yard etc etc...few doctors would ever do fot their mother in law... we just supplied him with cups of tea, when it was beer he was dreaming about...<BR/><BR/>I'd have gone mad with a dumb doc as a husbandMiddle Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962830669606760640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-57696677338625484252007-03-05T16:13:00.000+11:002007-03-05T16:13:00.000+11:00jahteh - makes one feel like doing something real...jahteh - makes one feel like doing something really bad. I only hope that there is a real Hell for these buggers later on.Middle Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962830669606760640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-5287332221835913862007-03-05T10:21:00.000+11:002007-03-05T10:21:00.000+11:00The boyo here ;0) I'm not fond of SOB either, and ...The boyo here ;0) I'm not fond of SOB either, and it's just the same in this country. You have to be as knolageable as the SOB or they end up killing you. My aunt who has had a kidney transplant 10 years ago has to look after her husband who has MS, she constantly has to sort the SOB out before they make a mistake.mirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00563559781513155264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-24378167195354311472007-03-05T06:42:00.000+11:002007-03-05T06:42:00.000+11:00I was an RN for all of my professional life....and...I was an RN for all of my professional life....and I was a professional. Most of the docs I worked with were also professionals, but that was a long time ago. I see a doc now that is my son's age and would be quite happy to just write a script for yet another pill and happily shuffle me out the door. It is about the bottom line, the almighty dollar and how much they can get back for saving the insurance company or the government $$$. It is about how many patients they can cram into a day and see them for as short a time as possible. It is about CYA. Thank gawd Don has you to be his champion. You are a wonder.rosemaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300107116527320425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-25892253894416770322007-03-04T16:47:00.000+11:002007-03-04T16:47:00.000+11:00You know what they call the guy that finished last...You know what they call the guy that finished last in his class at medical school?..."Doctor"..<BR/>I'm so sorry you guys have to endure this kind of thing.Slinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12156315627331213427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-38373711649893599582007-03-03T22:56:00.000+11:002007-03-03T22:56:00.000+11:00Mum's doctor went on a five week holiday without l...Mum's doctor went on a five week holiday without letting us know although he gave her file to a doctor at the clinic. I finally figured out we were talking cross purposes when he mentioned right breast mastectomy when it was the left. The letter was from Monash Breast Clinic with mum's name and address but someone else's condition. With her own doctor I could have sorted it out but someone who's just reading a file is a different matter especially when I'm trying to get a morphine script.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-65390647261935307012007-03-03T17:46:00.000+11:002007-03-03T17:46:00.000+11:00Thanks sooo much Cazzie...this is what we are plan...Thanks sooo much Cazzie...this is what we are planning on Monday/tues depending on Don and how he feels...we are going to organise the dog and poor bloody cat and have all his tabs in a bag...and just front up faking a herat attack or something...trouble is we have caused the MD's a lot of trouble over things we have done... we are activists or were in the past...fought the AMA on the privatisation of Port Macquarie Base Hospital...its now back in public hands...Don was the Secretary and publicity officer of the Hospital Action group (I took the minutes and almost went to jail once during a protest...(we are in a National party area...say no more) and we embarrassed the local MS's no end when that was on... we have called them out on fluoridation often...Don and I are or were before this, pretty vocal...<BR/><BR/>and I may be a drama queen but I suspect they would be happy to see Don and I in trouble...but think Don's GP is too stupid for this...<BR/><BR/>trouble is much of Don's meds are "on authority" such as Physeptone - Methadone which he uses to control the dreadful pain he experiences.... it is only this clinic which is authorised in our area to prescribe this medication, without which Don would be in too much pain to get out of bed...his hip ones are shot and can be replaced..also sitting on a dislocated hip which can't be fixed... wich he could access the milk of human kindness from these bastards and hope there is a justice in the next world.Middle Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962830669606760640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18214889.post-11248875428272619342007-03-03T15:56:00.000+11:002007-03-03T15:56:00.000+11:00It pisses me off when "people" overlook such obvio...It pisses me off when "people" overlook such obvious in-your-face problems and do not act appropriately!!!!<BR/> Your letters were so well written, I commend you on this.<BR/> Are you able to get your husband to an Emergency Department? We get alot of these lung congestion problems through the door and the appropriate specialists are called in an theie lungs are drained within a matter of 24 hours.<BR/> Of course the lungs inefficiency can be a result of the heart having problems, duh, dumb doctor!!!<BR/> I hope this gets resolved really really soon. Your precious husband will feel so good after the lung has been drained.Cazzie!!!https://www.blogger.com/profile/13856029137337148466noreply@blogger.com