Well a week has passed since the diagnosis and it seems like an eternity. I have started to take the pills for the hormone treatment but can feel no discernible effect. I don’t suppose I could expect to but the impatience to get on with things seems to build day by day. It is only a week but time seems to be ticking away inexorably.
I phoned the GP surgery yesterday morning to arrange an
appointment for the first hormone injection. After twenty minutes of horrible
music on the phone the receptionist answered. The doctor would need to ring me
that afternoon but she could not be sure of when. The doctor rang just after
three but couldn’t really help. My medical history had not been updated
following my discussion with Velindre so there was little he could do. He said
that he would arrange for a nurse to give me a ring the next day as they were
the people who administered the injection and knew what was what. It is only a
day I know but when you are a mode where every day counts it does try your
patience. In these days of computers I would rather have hoped that my medical
records were up to date. It’s only a week – there goes my patience again!
Let us hope that I can organise the injection some time
soon.
I did receive a letter from Velindre with my next
appointment – 26th October- and a request to have a blood test done
before then. At least Velindre seem to have a grip.
Strangely my stress levels seem to have increased. I need to
be more patient – is that why patients are called patients I wonder?
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