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2007 - October 8th - Monday

JH attended an appointment with Dr Hateley with regards to the pain and discomfort still being experienced from the whiplash injury: JH took with her the note of the two drug regimes which Sue Blowey had written out for JH; Dr Hateley had not received the clinic letter – which JH had asked the Secretary to fax to the Surgery from the PRU that morning.  JH was prescribed another course of a non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) together with an antihistamine; JH then went to the local pharmacy to get the newly-prescribed drugs; JH then went into the DVD hire shop – which has a coffee machine – but, when JH looked in her handbag, she noted that her diary was not therein.  Having recollected rummaging in her bag in the Dr’s Surgery, JH went back to the Surgery and, low and behold, Dr Hateley had picked the diary up off his consulting room floor; furthermore, he had just received the faxed letter from the PRU!


 
 
 
2007 - October 11th - Thursday

JH went to GP’s Surgery again for a ‘Flu jab.  Dr Hateley gave JH his blue hippo stethoscope cover which JH had remarked about!

2007 - October - 14th - Sunday

JH met Jenny A at the bus stop in St Budeaux: Jenny said she was on her way to visit her parents in hospital as mum had just given dad a kidney!  On 22nd October {at 0009}, JH sent an email to Sara Stacey – telling the latter that ‘I was so pleased to meet this young lass and have a chat with her, and so thought I would tell you the story.’.  [JH was doing a WRVS shift on Sunday, as JH had not yet been given a regular shift.]

2007 - October 18th - Thursday

JH attended a private appointment with Alison Morton who now has a Consulting Room in Hyde Park.  JH had met Chris Salvage, retired Physiotherapist from Derriford Hospital, who recommended Alison – following hearing JH’s tale of woe about sustaining a whiplash injury.  [In actual fact, JH had worked briefly at Vicky Llewellyn’s Practice, where Alison was the ‘junior partner’, in the 1980s shortly after JH had done her Medical Secretarial Course at the CFE.]  Alison took a full medical history and then explained that, initially, she recommended to patients that they have three sessions of physiotherapy at 2/52 intervals; JH received some manipulation to her left shoulder and neck – the muscles of which were very tight - and some ultrasound, and was advised on what exercises to do to ‘loosen’ her screwed-up muscles.

JH met Veronika, a ‘musical’ friend, on Mutley Plain: Veronika was most surprised that JH could not get physiotherapy at JH’s GP Surgery, but – as JH had not been offered it by Dr Hateley, she assumed that the Surgery did not employ a physiotherapist, which fact Alison subsequently confirmed.  In any event, JH is fully aware, both from her experiences as working for the NHS for 40 years, and from her experiences of being a recent inpatient, that physiotherapists are a rare breed!


 



 
 
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