Tuesday 8 February 2022

Grump

 I do think im on an endless moan at the moment , but i got up this morning to find that my pension age had risen yet again to 68 !!! shant be fit to go on bus trips and play bingo by then , the fact that i wouldnt want to has nothing to do with it .  My health is very two step forwards three steps back at the moment not helped by an online GP who says its my age and i should expect these things , just petty annoyances . It has been suggested i go to walking group for seniors , having seen this miserable practice trooping round the nearest town, a friend lasted two weeks after being pulled too one side by the dayglo clad leader and instructed to go and buy proper walking boots . She did say she felt out of place because she didnt own a drab north face jacket and proper walking trousers all very over the top for walking round the local housing estates of course, then there was the fact that there was a few men still alive and marching trying to chat up those merry widows who didnt fancy another aging bore to nurse having  finished off the first one. I really dont think that the powers that be grasp that country folk are a different breed we did all this wandering round aimlessly as youngsters for years , the tail end of our lives should be spent sat in a nice warm kitchen , prepping veg in industrial quantities for the kids families . oh and staring out the window with our knitting waiting to spot what language the swearing is from the white van man having broken an ankle taking a short cut over the garden. See even i have fantasies a nice warm kitchen something this house is incapable of achieving ...lol, 

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  1. My practice nurse suggests I join our local carers group, it's 20 miles away, no local bus route and I no longer drive. Really useful!

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    1. oh ours are just as helpful , i order perscriptions it shows they are dispensed , go to pick them up and something is always missing . I was told to come in every day till they have it last week havent got any fuel till pay day so they have had that

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  2. I have never had reasonable advice from the doctor. I have learned the art of 'nod, smile, escape' !

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    1. it would help if they actually saw me ...its been 3 years now

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    2. I almost fainted in shock the other day. Not only did I get an appointment for my diabetes “one stop
      Shop” check up (eyes, feet, ,blood, wee etc) I also got the results of my eye scan back in three days. 3 days!!!! In the years before covid it wasn’t that quick. Now I’ll have a fight to get my yearly review tho 😩

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  3. I don't think Doctors are there for our welfare any more. My friend has a sore spot on her back and was asked to send in a picture, she lives on her own and would have to be double jointed to get a picture of it. Sounds funny but actually isn't is it?
    I am in agony with my joints and am continually being prompted to go to the Doctor, what for? just another lot of pain killers or a patch as he advised last time.
    Such a shame isn't it. Once I thought the NHS would be there for us as we got older but I now realise all they want to do is bump you off.
    Briony
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    1. 80 year olds being told to do online triage is a favourite

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  4. Re the pension age, had a quick check as I'm expecting to finally get mine this summer when I reach 66. 68 is for people born on or after 1977, 67 for those born on or after April 1960.

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  5. My GP is fantastic I phoned for an appointment and got one five days later he then asked for three sets of tests for me and I have had them all within a month. Our mental health nurses are based in the health centre in a six month trial that seems to be going well and the specialist nurse for carers is also there. I know everyone has a different experience but I can only say how I've been treated in Dumfries and Galloway.

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