Good Morning Early Birds

[emmie]

morning, Wednesday and the days are flying away. I hope that you are all as well as can be, and that you have a good day. I am posting very early as i can't get back to sleep because of the pain in my knee, so if anyone is around at this mad hour, please come and keep me company.

[sanmac]

Good evening, emmie. Although I've never experienced it I know that knee pain can be very painful as my wife had it for a while and then decided to get knee implants, and she was just fine after that. I mentioned the other night that we got snowed under, well, we're getting more snow right now!

[emmie]

morning sanmac,
more snow, just what you don't need. How are

[emmie]

sorry posted too quick
how are you at any rate?

[sanmac]

I'm just fine, thanks. I was going to phone my GP on Wednesday to ask him to renew my prescriptions for another 3 months, but guess what? He phoned me today to ask some general health questions and some some blood-pressure readings that I take and also to remind me that it was time for a prescription renewal...How's that for patient care. Do you NHS doctors do that?

[emmie]

no they don't, or at least mine doesn't. if we want a repeat prescription then we are supposed to drop a note into the surgery.
my surgery is 20 mins walk away, so now i just ask Boots the chemist to renew the scripts, they then contact the surgery and it gets done that way.

[emmie]

our NHS is wonderful in many ways, but its a bloated with management organisation and swallows billions of pounds a year, yet i won't knock it for the most part, as i have had good treatment at the point when it was most needed.

[sanmac]

I got busy playing a video game. Anyway, you get you prescription filled, and that's what matters. I must admit that I find it odd that in the UK you refer to a doctor's office as a surgery. To me, a surgery is synonymous with an operating-room. But I guess that's the tradition over there

[emmie]

we refer to them as GP's surgeries, but i know what you mean...

[emmie]

are you off to bed soon?

[sanmac]

You trying to get rid of me:)

[emmie]

quite the opposite....

[emmie]

this at least stops me thinking about the pain, if i sit still enough then it's not so bad, it's only when i move about the pain kicks in. Glad of your company at this hour believe me.

[sanmac]

Have you ever considered getting a knee-implant?

[emmie]

what's a knee implant? - i have a phone consultation with the MSK clinician this friday, he may suggest a cortisone/steroid injection, though the effects wear off after a couple of months...

[sanmac]

Essentially, they remove your knee and replace it with an artificial one. As I mentioned, my wife had both knees done, not at he same time of course. It involves a lot of physio after the operation, but she was pain-free afterwards.

[emmie]

ah a knee replacement, it might come to that.. dependent on what the clinician says on friday.

[emmie]

anyway, lets talk about something else, what video game are you playing?

[emmie]

and do you have to go and pick up your prescription, or will they deliver, sorry if you have already said...

[dannyk13]

Good morning all.

[emmie]

morning Danny