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2007 - August 9th - Thursday

JH sent a letter to her Member of Parliament, Alison Seabeck, about the noise and light pollution caused by the Patientline consoles in an acute hospital ward, and also requesting accurate information about the interference caused by mobile telephones to other electronic equipment.

JH rang and asked Dr Denton’s Secretary to send a copy of her clinic letter with regards to JH’s consultation, with Dr Shrikant on 12th July, to Dr Hateley – it had not been sent because there was some query about sending a copy to the RLH, and so it remained on Dr Denton’s desk!  JH sent a letter to Dr Hateley requesting a prescription for Zanidip: JH also enclosed a copy of her Discharge Summary from the RLH – as his receptionist said they did not appear to have received a copy; however, the Surgery HAD received a phone call from Paulin Ward with regards to JH’s wound care, and FU in the Renal Unit at Derriford.  JH also told Dr Hateley that she was planning to come and speak to him about her ‘screwed up innards’ when she was feeling more fully recovered.  JH subsequently received a friendly note from Dr Hateley, together with a prescription for Zanidip (and HRT).


 

 JH sent an email to Ray Trevitt with lots of queries:  1) would Ray like a video of Dirty Pretty Things – which is about illegal immigrants coming to the UK and then being coerced into the illegal trade in organs for transplant; 2) did JH have a blood transfusion; 3) JH asked Ray to make sure that Dr Hateley was down, in ALL her notes, as being her GP; JH also wished to ensure that a Clinic letter - from JH’s attendance at the RLH on 2nd August - was sent to Dr Hateley; 4) JH mentioned that Kathy was scheduled to see her Orthopaedic Surgeon, in view of her continuing back, and leg pain.

2007 - August 10th - Friday

JH acquired a whiplash injury to her left shoulder!  JH went swimming - for the first time since having her operation, in Tinside Lido.  She left the Lido at about 5.30pm and, as she had noticed a Fair was on the Hoe Promenade, she went to look around.  Whilst standing watching the dodgems – where the drivers were circulating round in quite a courteous manner – a young man said ‘Hello’ and explained that he would love to go on the dodgems, but had no money; JH replied to the effect that she was far too nervous to drive a dodgem car herself (as she had not driven a car for 9 years, and certainly not a dodgem for about 50 years) but would pay for the YM to have a turn – provided he acted as JH’s chauffeur!  At this suggestion {whilst JH was looking in her purse to get £2 out} two young ladies – obviously friends of the YM – rushed up; there was a discussion with the man in the kiosk, and the YM reported back to JH that for, £5, three dodgem cars could be had for a circuit!  JH went to the kiosk with her new-found friends, but JH insisted that the YM should still be her chauffeur – to which suggestion the man in the kiosk agreed - with a very serious expression on his face; it was a bit of a squeeze to get into the car; as well as the two girls in individual cars, there were about four other cars on the move. 

There was no courtesy of the road to be had here!  Before action commenced JH introduced herself; Nathan, the chauffeur, introduced himself and offered a grubby hand with chewed fingernails to be shaken; thereafter, JH got very shaken up!  Out of the other drivers, the YM with a red coat was to be avoided – but of course he wasn’t; Nathan was amazed that a couple in one car were able to drive their vehicle backwards – so they, too, could not be avoided; JH was aware of crashing various parts of her anatomy against the bars on the edge of her vehicle; just before the electricity got turned off, JH was aware of a sharp pain in her left shoulder around the region of the acromeoclavicular joint when her head bounced back and forth during the umpteenth collision.  So JH acquired a typical whiplash injury.  Nathan and his two girlfriends gave lots of thanks to JH – and then pointed in the direction of some sort of fairground ride which was spinning the occupants round at a great rate!  JH hastily retreated, saying that she had to catch the last bus, and that she had had a fright – when about aged 7 – when she and her father had nearly fallen off a fairground ride.  JH DID mention having an achy neck due to her whiplash injury, but she did not wish to overstate the degree of injury {at that time, not realising that the injury was going to cause a problem}, as she had really enjoyed the ride!

JH then spoke to the St John’s Ambulance Man in his ambulance [to ask if there were any Portaloos about, NOT for treatment of her whiplash] and met Derek Earl, a member of the RCN whom JH had not met for about 25 years!  Derek reported that his two girls now had families of their own; JH recollected that Lizzie, Derek’s wife, who was a District Nurse, had died in her 40s after having a heart attack – she had a multitude of medical problems including diabetes.  Lizzie and Derek had, at one point, run a Health Centre for the VSO somewhere in Africa.

 Over the next 48 hours JH took a couple of doses of ibuprofen {which she really shouldn’t be taking} and one dose of paracetamol, but then decided that she could ‘manage’ the pain in her left shoulder, without taking analgesics.



 
 
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