Thinking of Mad Dilys

[Grandad]

Heh MD, if you look in, how are you. I have not seen you listed as visiting in the last 24 hours and I believe you went into hospital last Friday for your operation.

I hope all is well with you, and my best wishes for a quick recovery and return to the forum.....it's getting very lonely on here.

[Jayway]

Hope you are OK MD, like to hear from you soon ?

[LovelyLadyLux]

I've been expecting an update too.

Hope you're OKEE DOKEE MD

[Ruby Slippers]

No internet access in the hospital - not even a mobile phone! I know the last knee operation she had kept her in the hospital for a fortnight, so...........! MD, get well soon.


ps. Just noticed she has logged in sometime over the last 24 hours, so she must be back home! Welcome back, MD!

[Kiya]

MD hope your OK Get well soon

[LovelyLadyLux]

GET WELL SOON MD!

[Mad Dilys]

Thank you folks for your good wishes, but still in limbo /hospital.

Apparently the Physios signed me off last Tuesday, without me attempting stairs or crutches, which everybody else has to do.......... now I wait until my name comes up on a list for "homecare", although my circumstances have remained constant since my last operation. I have had several checks on my facilities up to date, nothing has changed yet they are still unprepared.

I guess I will not be having physio after I get home, if I get home.

[Ruby Slippers]

You managed to wangle internet access then?

[Grandad]

Good to hear from you MD

Won't be getting on a bike for a while then

Good luck for a fast recovery...

[LovelyLadyLux]

Best of luck for a fast recovery from me too MD. Hope you can get back to your own home soon and get reliable homecare coming in.

[Kiya]

Good Luck MD, Hope your home soon & running about

[Mad Dilys]

News Flash..............

I shall, hopefully be going home on Sunday next.

I have been moved again to the pre-release ward, the patients are waiting to go home with all hospital checks completed.

The lady who left this evening has been waiting 6 weeks, as she lives alone but thankfully in a different area to me.

Decent convalescent care would release so many hospital facilities.

Management as usual are not joining the dots, but have drawn lines and are now attempting to push the reluctant dots into position.

[Grandad]

News Flash..............
Management as usual are not joining the dots, but have drawn lines and are now attempting to push the reluctant dots into position.

Pleased to hear things are moving along MD and I love your analogy of how things happen....or don't.

I attend a glaucoma clinic and on several occasions the appointments nerds have booked for me to see the consultant on one day and then a visual field test on a later day. Is it not simple to realise that the specialist will need any pre testing BEFORE a consultation.....apparently not

[Ruby Slippers]

I can't help thinking that if we left the EU, the 350 million we pay a week could go a fair way into improving our NHS!

[Mad Dilys]

Could is the operative word, Ruby however whether it would is something else.

[Grandad]

I can't help thinking that if we left the EU, the 350 million we pay a week could go a fair way into improving our NHS!

That actually comes down to about £160 million after rebates (negotiated by Maggie) and subsidies are taken into account. Still a lot of money that could be put to better use here. I am happy to confess that I am strongly on the LEAVE side. Despite all the doom and gloom and scaremongering being spread by the REMAIN camp I think we ar perfectly capable of doing very well if we have our independence and sovereignty back.

As for the NHS, and I have a lot to thank them for, I think their problem is one of poor management. If they were a commercial business they would be run very differently. On my frequent visits to hospital I am astonished at how many staff, nursing and otherwise, are walking around with clip boards and pieces of paper in their hands doing, I don't know what. And NHS procurement wants a big kick up the backside. As such a massive purchasing organisation they should have the clout to really negotiate best prices for their supplies, drugs, etc; but too often we hear that they pay well over the odds.

If they were a business dependent on profit, things would be very different......

[Mad Dilys]

Bravo! Grandad I'm taking notes

[LovelyLadyLux]

I can only compare Canadian Healthcare (gov't run) to the USA (corporate business) and honestly my experience in the USA is far far FAR superior to that in Canada. It is run as a business, you get statements of what a procedure cost with breakdowns for every aspirin. They KNOW what it costs, what everybody is doing, they set goals and get results.

I had carpal tunnel. Got the ultrasound in 30 minutes same day and was back to the Dr for the diagnosis. HERE you're booked an app't for an ultrasound 3 months in advance as we have ONE machine in one clinic that serves 100,000+ people with staff who only work 8 hour (if that as most of the gov't only work 7 hour days) with lunches, breaks etc. Not complaining the lunches and breaks but the machine also goes down on these times. They definitely are not run 24/7.

I'd love to see private medical come here. I honestly think I'd take it up. I've bought in the past in the USA health procedures. They can tell you the cost up front and can get the job done in usually 2 weeks or less. I rather think that is how healthcare should be.

[Ruby Slippers]

LLL, what happens in the USA if you desperately need a medical procedure but haven't got health insurance and no money?

[LovelyLadyLux]

You die.

That is the short blunt answer - BUT you can go to any hospital and they ARE mandated to treat you. The system down there is inundated with illegals arriving at hospitals with wounds, broken limbs and they cannot turn them away. They treat them and most hospitals hold a slush fund from those who DO pay insurance to cover the emergencies.

That was how it was prior to Obamacare where he mandated that everybody be insured (unless you have a private insurance you can use) Problem IS the premiums are putting people in the poorhouse. Really a difficult situation all 'round. If you don't buy Obamacare insurance you're fined but if you do buy it it is often upwards of 25 - 50% of your take home pay.

Another downside to private insurance is that, for example, if you have cancer and it is re-occurring they can deny you future options to treatment.

It isn't all good but IMO it is far superior to what we have here as HERE (in Canada) people are dying waiting to get treatment. It happens daily that you're in the line waiting and you die before you're ever able to get a course of treatment started.