A bit of a rant - and a question!
Apr 10, 2012 19:52:40 GMT
Post by liziJ on Apr 10, 2012 19:52:40 GMT
I've just had a really rather stressful hospital appointment and need to vent!!
At my last immuno check-up (which was with a doc I'd never met rather than my usual consultant) I mentioned I was concerned I may have a hernia. A couple of weeks later I received an appointment for an abdomen ultrasound so I assumed this was what it was for.
Off I went to the ultrasound today, resenting the fact that my local station car park now charges £4.50 for parking, and that my tube ticket was £7.70. Two stops away from hospital the tube ground to a halt and we were all told to leave as the rest of the line was suspended. I then had to get a cab the rest of the way to hospital - another £7.00.
Once I got there, after lots of vague and unhelpful responses from receptionists, it eventually emerged that I'd somehow been booked in for the scan at one hospital and sent a letter telling me to go to a different hospital - very helpfully, the ultrasound team were ready and waiting for me halfway across London. They agreed to do me a "favour" and fit me in when they could - which resulted in me waiting 1hr 15mins before finally being called in.
Imagine my surprise when the doctor doing the scan told me the referral was nothing to do with a hernia, but to check for an enlarged spleen! Absolutely no mention of this had been made to me by my referring doctor and I have no idea as to the reason behind the referral.
The outcome was that my spleen is indeed slightly enlarged, but because I don't know why the scan was ordered, I don't know what this may or may not indicate, or how concerned I ought to be. Does anyone have a clue?
Then, because I'd had to wait so long to be seen, I then had to get the tube back in the middle of rush hour. I had to let 8 trains pass before one came along with enough space for me to squeeze through the doors - to then spend a 40-min journey pressed up against a few dozen coughy sneezy germy commuters.
Rant over. And breathe ...
L xx
At my last immuno check-up (which was with a doc I'd never met rather than my usual consultant) I mentioned I was concerned I may have a hernia. A couple of weeks later I received an appointment for an abdomen ultrasound so I assumed this was what it was for.
Off I went to the ultrasound today, resenting the fact that my local station car park now charges £4.50 for parking, and that my tube ticket was £7.70. Two stops away from hospital the tube ground to a halt and we were all told to leave as the rest of the line was suspended. I then had to get a cab the rest of the way to hospital - another £7.00.
Once I got there, after lots of vague and unhelpful responses from receptionists, it eventually emerged that I'd somehow been booked in for the scan at one hospital and sent a letter telling me to go to a different hospital - very helpfully, the ultrasound team were ready and waiting for me halfway across London. They agreed to do me a "favour" and fit me in when they could - which resulted in me waiting 1hr 15mins before finally being called in.
Imagine my surprise when the doctor doing the scan told me the referral was nothing to do with a hernia, but to check for an enlarged spleen! Absolutely no mention of this had been made to me by my referring doctor and I have no idea as to the reason behind the referral.
The outcome was that my spleen is indeed slightly enlarged, but because I don't know why the scan was ordered, I don't know what this may or may not indicate, or how concerned I ought to be. Does anyone have a clue?
Then, because I'd had to wait so long to be seen, I then had to get the tube back in the middle of rush hour. I had to let 8 trains pass before one came along with enough space for me to squeeze through the doors - to then spend a 40-min journey pressed up against a few dozen coughy sneezy germy commuters.
Rant over. And breathe ...
L xx
