GG I am am really glad that you are getting a proper and decent level of service! although my experience or to be more correct my wifes experience is more akin to BB`s She was involved in a car crash was complaining of pain in her shoulder , they x rayed it and said nothing was wrong , she was in great pain so she went back a couple of days later and it was found her shoulder was dislocated !! still in great pain (and because she is allergic to so much was on morphine) was still in pain went back to (on my request a different hospital they said the shoulder was fractured in 2 places! at this time she started complaining of a pain in her knee !( remember still on morphine)! Shoulder sorts it self out after being reset!, knee by this time about 5 months later (and now we have moved to Norway) it turns out had also been badly damaged in the crash , but had been missed !! and because of the morphine had been covered up ! By this time months after Mrs N is hooked on morphine and having some vicious mood swings that nearly ended the marriage! I get her on the company insurance and the Noggys shaved the miniscus and re aligned the knee and gave her courses of physio , none of this worked and she finally ended up with a new knee in a Nuffield Hospital in nottingham paid for by my companys health insurance! that was 2 yrs ago! So forgive me GG I am a bit sceptical of the NHS especially where the Queens Med in Nottingham is involved!
ooh yes please! lol...i was making pear tartlets with vanilla ice cream (for pud obviously! lol)...disaster..never again! good! Personally i have nothing but praise for the NHS, and after some absolutely horrific experiences in the private sector for both myself, and a few friends...i will never use private health again.
There was a time when the Military had their own hospitals and you got seen very quickly, those days sadly are in the past My issue is just with the imbeciles at Abbey Wood, I told them back in May that my temporary downgrading was due to run out in June and if it was not sorted HR would issue me with a draft notice for a detachment. So in July I got my draft notice for next year, I told HR but they rightly said your Med Cat does not reflect your down grading. So in August they give me an extension to my downgrading, but my detachment still stands which in the mean time has been extended from 4 - 6 months I know I will not be going to the sandy place as I cannot do the necessary training due to my knees. I am not trying to duck out of a detachment I just want to give someone as much notice as possible that they are going away for 6 months next May I am now going for a Med Board to find out what I can do, they may say you could go to where Prince William is going(not at the same time) but it is all dependent on the Med Board! They may say that I am not medically fit enough to go anywhere other than the knackers yard I will have to hurry up and wait
The surgeons for the bigger ops tend to be the same , the only difference is the private health care cuts through the waiting time and the bureaucracy! As I have mentioned the Nuffield (and funnily enough Dr Kneedoff) were fantastic to my wife! I think where private healthcare does go awry is what I would call non essential surgery , cosmetic surgery , breast enlargement or reduction , botox filled lips and that sort of thing because there are a lot of charlatans preying on peoples insecurities!
i hate when weight loss slows down! lol 11½lbs off...and 11.75" (but not yet from the places that really matter..frustrating, but i'm not giving up!!)
Been away from the interweb since I posted on Saturday. Really sorry to hear your rough experiences with the NHS, BB & Norway. Makes me feel even more fortunate. I do have to report that Mrs GG had excellent service too when her knee was done this summer. So it seems to be a bit of a lucky (or unlucky) dip. I think that when the big C is concerned they press the big red button and things happen. Thank God.
i am still walking a bit...but i've pulled a hamstring so all the squats and stuff i was doing have been put on the back burner...walking isn't really helping it either but i have to do something, otherwise i sit down all day!
I got some advice years ago on how to trick your metabolism - simply walk/exercise at the same time of day every day for a week or so, then swap to an earlier or later time. After a week or so of that, revert back to your original time. The theory is that your body takes about a week to recognise that you're burning off fat reserves at the same time every day, and will then slow down your metabolic rate at another time of day to compensate as it doesn't want to lose those reserves. It used to work for me every pre-season training - I'd cycle 25 km every morning until the weight loss stopped, then I'd cycle every afternoon instead and it would start again. I used to hate the afternoons - not only was it harder because of the heat, but we used to train three evenings a week & there was little time to recover from the exertions of cycling!
wow! thanks for that BB! I do tend to vary my exercise times because of work and when i can fit it in..but that's a great idea. Strangely, while i was training for the walk i managed to put on nearly a stone, and everyone tells me it's because muscle weighs heavier, but honestly, i don't think that's the reason..it's just weird..it's not the first time exercise and weight gain have gone hand in hand with me...i wish i was one of those people that could say that exercise helped the weight fall off! lol. Still, if nothing else, when i exercise i'm fitter...so that's why i keep it going i'll keep that very much in mind though BB...and hopefully by next week my hamstring will let me get back to my programme coz i miss doing it!
I was born with 2 (well, just one but across 2 areas) holes in my heart and I had the op done when I was three months old by possibly the best heart surgeon ever, Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub at Harefield. All his patients were seen by his registrar, Dr Rosemary Radley-Smith, who I saw at regular intervals until I was 21 and from about the time I was at senior school I was allowed to call her Rosemary and if she didn't see us at the time our appointment was, she apologised. I used to go to Mount Vernon to see the neurologist about my epilepsy and was regularly waiting for 30 mins plus, on occassions more than an hour and received no apology. Two hospitals so close together, such different approaches. I find the Jersey system good enough considering the size of the place, especially the way the ear problem my youngest has was handled.
barry - back in the early 70's my dad had a multiple bypass at Harefield with Mr Yacoub as the surgeon - we was an utter gentlemen and he spent a lot of time reassuring my mum that all would be OK. In the early 70's these were almost revolutionary operations...
Just had the dreaded call from the RAF Med Board reception, 29 Nov Hopefully everything will be OK but with the new trouble with my foot, I am even beginning to wonder what they will say about my prospects for future employment within the RAF!!!: I need to get drunk to forget, forget what
Chin up Al cross that bridge only if it arises! Have a or two ! Just as a matter of interest do the services still do re settlement courses ? Youll be fine mate
Yes the resettlement package is still quite good, also we now have enhanced learning credits which are worth upto £2K a year, even after you have left the Services. Which might come in handy but hopefully not just yet in my case. You can use them at any time and we still get standard learning credits which are worth £180 per year towards courses which benefit the Service and yourself of course
so possibly after a golden handshake , you get free training for something else , or you get the all clear and carry on as is, sounds win win choice to me mate !
