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2008 - May 6th - Tuesday

JH saw Kathy again!  But Ralph undertook to take JH to Rayleigh Station: we got there in time for JH to catch the 10.00am train to Liverpool Street – a journey of about ¾ hour.  At Paddington JH had lunch in The Mad Bishop and Bear, and then caught the 1.05pm train home – although this was not the train on which JH had booked a seat, it being the day after a Public/Bank Holiday, she had no difficulty in finding one.  JH phoned Kathy in the evening to thank her and Ralph for ‘the break that was as good as a rest’!  Kathy told JH that Bill and Pic, and Edwin and Pat, also admitted going to bed when they got home after the birthday gathering yesterday; furthermore, K told JH – who was just on her way to play music over in St Judes - that Lorraine would be astonished to learn that JH had gone out again after such a long journey but, then, JH is 15 months younger that Kathy, and has not had kidney failure, nor does she have other exhausting persons about her, such as husband, children, and grand children!  The end of a great trip to the Hipsey stamping ground.


 

2008 - May 12th - Monday

JH rang her GP Surgery to make an appointment to see Dr Hateley about her colossally high B/P, but Dr H was away on A/L and so JH saw Linda Marshall, Nurse Consultant.  JH mentioned four matters to Linda: L inspected JH’s eardrums, and informed JH that the latter’s ears did NOT have loads of wax clogging them up, in other words, JH is not hearing as well as she used to because that’s how life is when one gets older; JH told L that she had been given 3 pots of Vitamin D tablets by Kathy, which Kathy had purchased for herself, but which she had been told not to take over and above her present medication; Linda looked up Vitamin D in her Pharmacopoeia and explained to JH that, unless JH’s diet was calcium deficient, there was no need for JH to dose herself up (and even JH’s vegan friends did not need supplements, if they ate lots of pulses); thirdly, JH explained that she was somewhat concerned that her musculoskeletal aches and pains – from which she had suffered over many years – were somewhat troubling, in particular she had stabbing pains in her right groin which sometimes ‘caught her out’ and caused her to limp; also JH had pain around the right knee which was +/ associated with her groin pain; Linda felt that, as JH’s B/P was the most pressing matter to be dealt with at the moment, that it would be best if JH could discuss her aches and pains more fully at another appointment – unless of course they became much worse in the interim.  The fourth matter discussed was, of course, JH’s high B/P which was found to be 150/100.  Linda went and asked one of the Doctors in the Surgery if it was reasonable for her to increase JH’s dose of Zanidip from 10mg daily to 20mg daily – so JH was given a prescription for this increase dose.  JH made an appointment to see the Phlebotomist to have her B/P checked, and to have blood taken, in 2/52 time.


 
 
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