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Latest blog posts

• Willy Wonka’s Nemesis

  My first ever Cystoscopy (Part 2)

  So I enter the treatment room and what can you do but go with the flow? You are in the hands of people who do for a living what you’ve never had done to you before. ‘Name?’, ‘Date of birth?’ ‘Hospital Number?&rsquo...

  Doug07 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 419: Physio Appointment PM Follows a Runaround.

  Post 419: Physio Appointment PM Follows a Runaround Although later today there’s going to be a therapist delve into my right shoulder, which is easing nicely since my little operation five or six weeks ago. But before that I had a possible ph...

  Mr U 3 months ago
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  Improvements to the Online Community search function

  The Online Community search function has received an upgrade. It’s now more powerful, and even easier to use. Learn about the improvements in this short blog.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 418: The Realisation…

  Post 418: The Realisation… The U3A is a national organisation offering daytime (evening) classes for those who are no longer full-time workers. In my case—and I bet you’re hoping it might help—I’m going to sample a Cr...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• Willy Wonka’s Nemesis

  My first ever Cystoscopy (Part 1)

  So, because of hematuria, I find myself taking my trousers and underpants off in a small cubicle attached to a waiting room, placing them in the plastic bag provided and donning two hospital gowns, one with the slit up the back and the other more lik...

  Doug07 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 18 — Another Week in Castle Hill

  There is a particular kind of frustration that must only exists in hospitals. It isn't the frustration of pain, or fear, or uncertainty — though all of those are present too. It's the frustration of a system that is simultaneously extra...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  Just bloody ring instead of tex links !!!!

  I know it's the modern way but mum and dad aren't modern ,they don't even have the bloody internet ...they're smart phones are crap and don't connect correctly when they're dependent on signals in the atmosphere...but despite ...

  RedTree26 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 417: First Day Back at Work.

  Post 417: First Day Back at Work I have been purposely avoiding any chatter about the dreaded time it takes me to get through the admin surrounding my new issue with worsening AFib. It remains to be seen how AFib will affect my life, especially as ...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  Phone Call From Hell

  The MDT team have met and reviewed the path findings and rung my mum.and dad.I knew something was amiss when I phoned to ask how mums toes were,she's had two toenails removed in an attempt to cure fungal toenails.Dad answered but sounded off,as t...

  RedTree26 3 months ago
• Willy Wonka’s Nemesis

  It’ll be something and nothing.

  So, invisible traces of blood in my otherwise crystal clear, Chardonnay-coloured urine. Honestly, if it was in a wine glass, ice-cold and sat on the bar at your favourite haunt, you’d say to the bar tender, ‘I’ll have one of those.&...

  Doug07 3 months ago