Yawn,yawn, wakey, wakey 2017

Aloha everyone,

Happy birthday, Ozzy


I got some things done in the garden yesterday and did some paperwork but taking it easy. Moorfields tomorrow, hope they don't keep me in but probably need some work done. I have a phobia about anything getting near my eyes since I had a pair of, plastic, scissors stuck in my eye at school!!!


Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Aloha everyone,

Busy day today . See you later

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning all my friends are we all feeling positive and wearing our bestest smile this morning,are we ready to face whatever is lobbed at us,altogether now Have a supelative day and enjoy every minute of it

 

Aloha everyone,

Yesterday's trip to London didn't go too badly . Train journey was comfortable and the taxi to the hospital was only £6.40 (wasn't going to mess around trying to find the right bus and using our bus passes).

A&E at Moorfields were very nice, efficient and fast - although they couldn't find my old records from when I was a regular visitors there (in the early 1950's ). In Triage two minutes after arriving, through to the next department and only a five minute wait for the next tests, through to another department and only a ten minute wait for some more tests and drops in my eyes. Then a fifteen minute wait for the drops to take effect and then called in to see the specialist.

He tried to, politely, tell me off for going to them when I could have gone to my local hospital and asked me what made me decide it was an emergency. This was easily answered as I told him that the optician has given me some dire warnings and I wanted more information. Moorfields has a specialist advice line (our hospital doesn't) and I called them. They were the ones that told me to go to their A&E department. He rolled his eyes and said that they are always telling people that! He was friendlier after that.

He said that I hadn't had an accident and it wasn't an emergency so I should have gone to my GP and got a referral to the local hospital. I replied by saying that I needed to know more about the do's and don'ts because I hadn't been told enough and that was why I phoned the advice line. Also, as I'm going on holiday soon I needed to know whether I could go. I also said that by the time I got a doctor's appointment and a hospital appointment it would be months as our local hospital has been put into 'special measures'.

All this chat went on whilst he was examining me. He reassured me that the eye specialists at the local hospital are all superb (he knows them personally) and I said that they may be but the administration is atrocious.

End result:- they won't do anything to my eye unless it suddenly starts getting worse and gave me a list of symptoms to look out for. It's only a one in five hundred chance that it will get worse and the condition is a sign of age!!!!! He also told me that I could continue to do the things that I normally do but not to do anything too strenuous, especially whilst bending. No running, jogging or bungee jumping - so that's ruined my holiday!

By the time I was finished there we had only been there 65 minutes. We then walked in the beautiful sunshine back to Liverpool Street Station. So many of the landmarks had changed over the last 60+ years since I was there regularly. I also had trouble finding my old school because of the change of all the buildings near it. It was no use looking for the gas lights down the road (yes, we really did have gas lights in those days) or the old Lyons Corner House on the corner of the road (now a skyscraper office block).

Got back home and did some mowing.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!