MEDICAL MATTERS

[Stanley]

And there was me being sorry for myself because my shoulder hurts!
Best wishes to you both!!

[Big Kev]

Blood results day today, I've checked the NHS app and my HBA1C is down from 6 months ago

The chemistry looks to be working

Just need the DVT clinic to sort out what's going on now.

[Tizer]

Glad it went OK Peter. Join the crater club, I have three...

Thanks Ian. I'm in no hurry to catch up with you!

[Stanley]

Good luck with the DVT results Kev.....

[Big Kev]

Good luck with the DVT results Kev.....

Thank you

[Stanley]

A simple matter like checking to see if a winter flu jab appointment was still on for 16:30 next Wednesday..... Turned out it was. I checked on the NHS website to see who was doing Covid19 jabs. It directed me to a pharmacy called Everest and I assumed it was Well changing its name after a cursory look at the street map. Made the booking for the same time as the flu jab and then found out it was Lloyd's who have changed their name so had to go back and maker my original booking 15 minutes earlier. Luckily nothing had changed and this was possible.
A five minute job was increased to 45 minutes..... However, it's done now. I shall lie down in a darkened room.......

[PanBiker]

I have booked mine with Everest also, still has Whitworths on the door though. Different day to my flu jab at the surgery.

[Big Kev]

Good news is I have a baker's cyst, a collection of fluid behind the knee that can present the same symptoms as a DVT if it ruptures. Should clear up on its own after a few weeks

[Big Kev]

Postponed both our flu and COVID jabs until Tuesday, should have been Friday but we're out on Saturday and didn't want to feel 'under the weather'.

[Wendyf]

That is good news Kev! I have had a baker's cyst for years which hasn't caused me any problems so far. I wasn't aware that they could rupture!

[Big Kev]

That is good news Kev! I have had a baker's cyst for years which hasn't caused me any problems so far. I wasn't aware that they could rupture!

I'd never heard of one, let alone a ruptured one. They must have seen something on the scan from last week as the rescan was done by a muscularskeleto specialist (apparently). They sent me some information about it

A Baker's cyst can sometimes rupture (burst), resulting in fluid leaking down into your calf. This causes a sharp pain in your calf, which becomes swollen, tight and red.


It was the 'sharp pain in the calf' that had me concerned, fortunately all is good

[PanBiker]

Excellent news Kev.

[Stanley]

That's good news Kev. I am glad they have sorted it.
You're right Ian, Whitworth's and not Lloyds.... I looked yesterday and the fascia board over the windows has changed to Everest.

[Tripps]

Here's an odd one - and quite spooky too.

I heard this morning an interview with Baroness Natalie Bennet an Australian, and former leader of the British Green Party. Throughout I kept getting the name Naftali Bennet in my mind. Couldn't explain why, or remember even if it was a real person.

Later I was looking for something else - quite unconnected - in the 'Sent' folder of my emails and came across this dating from the first few weeks of the Covid 19 pandemic. I thought then that he might have something, and I'm even more sure now that he did.

[Stanley]

I listened to him David. I take his point but I think it wasn't quite as easy as that.... But what the hell do I know anyway. My remedy of eating well and being anti-social seems to have worked and basically that's what he was recommending for old people....

[Big Kev]

Jabbed for another year, covid in one arm flu in the other.

[Wendyf]

It's been a stressful couple of weeks Chez Faulkner. Colin had his regular hba1c blood test but the results didn't appear as usual on his records. A week last Thursday he missed a call from Earby Surgery but a message asked him to call back. When he did, the receptionist didn't know the reason for the original call but thought that a phone consultation was needed. She could book him one for two weeks hence. At that point he asked about his blood test results and was told it was 101!! That is a huge and dangerous number and Col went into total panic mode. There followed the usual conversation about filling in the E Consult form at 7am or calling at 8am to get an earlier appointment. That was stress enough, but on checking, the results had now appeared on his records with the note that this sudden spike in blood glucose could indicate pancreatic cancer. With Colin's history this was pretty bad news.

Everything moved fast after he succeeded with the E Consult form, a CT scan has showed that his pancreas is clear, an appointment with the diabetic clinician in Colne has got him started on a low dose of insulin. Phew.

[Big Kev]

Scary stuff Wendy, hopefully the insulin will settle things down.

[Wendyf]

He is on a low dose to start with Kev and it isn't making a huge difference as yet but he has an update on Friday with the clinician. Col was pleasantly shocked to find that she had given him an extra long appointment, had read his records and understood what he was going through being a type 1 diabetic herself. He is also booked in for a phone consultation with a doctor on Friday to "discuss the history behind findings on the CT scan". We think they might have noticed that his stomach isn't there anymore!

[Big Kev]

We think they might have noticed that his stomach isn't there anymore!

You'd certainly hope they noticed that
Give him my best wishes and a speedy return to some sort of normality

[Tripps]

My best wishes too.

I'd have thought such a high reading would have triggered a reaction from the surgery, before having to ask. Medicine seems to be getting like shopping - scan and pay for your own purchases without any staff intervention, and do your blood pressure readings yourself at home.

[Big Kev]

Jabbed for another year, covid in one arm flu in the other.

An ache in the 'covid' arm and potential cold symptoms the man said, it didn't take long to kick in. Hopefully it'll be gone by morning.

[Stanley]

Wendy, that was not nice to read about Colin.... Poor bugger, I can well understand him going into panic mode, I certainly would have! Please give him my best wishes.....

[Big Kev]

Jabbed for another year, covid in one arm flu in the other.

An ache in the 'covid' arm and potential cold symptoms the man said, it didn't take long to kick in. Hopefully it'll be gone by morning.

The cold symptoms have gone just an aching arm, that was better than last time

[Tizer]

I'm sorry to hear about Colin's problems, Wendy, and your traumatic experience in hearing about it. I hope it all goes well for him.

We had our Covid jabs this afternoon. We've both had our flu jabs and I've had the RSV jab. I'm waiting for new hearing aids - I waited months for the tests and then was told it would be about 6 weeks for the ear moulds to be ready (perhaps they're subcontracted to China! My `hole in the head' (well scalp to be truthful) is now a big black circular scar and I don't know whether I'll always have that or whether it might eventually shrink away or crumble off. Watch this space!