TGIF :-) NHS - has gone to the dawgs

Hi Friday peops
Thanks for all your e-mail and text good wishes re the old bird - who has survived the NHS holocaust - I passed them all on - mom has lived to fight another day (and dad!) -and thanks also for your encouragement to complain - some of you have already tried it - so as you know it is futile and a waste of energy - all you get is a placatory 'sorry' letter - but nothing changes - so we didn't bother, but maybe some national newspaper will pick up the photos off the Blog - I did got mom's best side? .

It came to a crunch when she ceremoniously threatened to discharge herself last Thursday evening after learning that they were considering keeping her in 4 days over Easter doing sweet fanny adams, as they hadn't bothered to push for the last vital hugely time-consuming and life-changing test - yes - a Doppler of her legs - and for those of you who don't know what that is - it's basically a 5 minute mini-ultrasound test - a last 'vein' attempt (get it? vein....) to look at blood flow - yes folks this is where your tax is going.... anyway needless to say the nice man came up and did the test and she stomped off the ward, with more engorged veins protruding from her very angry neck than her legs!

Ian still seemed determined to find a clot - so chauffeured her to Leicester where she had a thorough MOT courtesy of all his very important colleagues - all they could find is that she has forgotten how to breathe properly - and walks too fast?! So mom is retraining herself to breathe from her diaphragm - that's the muscular doobry under her lungs - not the contraceptive variety - mind you that might be more interesting?

Work - is back to 'normal' - I've had a good week with some interesting incidents to sort out - like the secretary who reported that when she re-loaded her Printer's paper, pictures of naked women churned out - so we had to try and get to the 'bottom' of finding out who it was, and keep 'abreast' of the investigation, and I would be there for her if she felt the need to get anything off her 'chest'..... and then we had an e-mail alert about a Neonatal nurse in the UK who had set herself on fire after using alcohol hand rub - so I asked our Lead Nurse whether we should have a policy in place to reduce the risk of spontaneous combustion of our already dwindling nursing staff, and I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to print her reply in case any of them read the Blog ;-)

Had a lovely evening with Peter yesterday - went to see Mr Bean - don't bother - only a couple of funny moments - so we came home and chilled and read books instead -which was much more fun - we're reading about 3 each at the moment and getting them all mixed up - well, I am - he's not... for someone who can't remember what I told him yesterday he has an amazingly selective memory - I guess memory and Mr Bean are both 'man things'?

I'm off to Trentham Gardens tomorrow bimbling with Sue & SPICE - Sue is very pleased cos it's my turn driving - and there is a German beer festival there apparently - so I think there will be much girlie singing in the car again on the way home! I shall also be asking Peter to help me set up my wormery - they are in the kitchen at the moment settling in to their new home :-)
I'm off to slurp some wine now.... a sort of toast to a 'normal' week - I hope yours was fairly normal.

Welcome home to Chris & Rohini - and good luck in your new job in Leicester Ro! Tracy - sending you big hugs for you and Janet.
Love n stuff
Kimmie x