Happy Birthday

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So today is my wonderful husbands 50th Birthday. I've spoilt him wrotten with prezzies as I kind of feel a little guilty this year not being able to give him the Birthday he deserves.

Oral thrush has gone down thanks to flucanazole, appetite has come back but I'm still eating small portions as I don't want acid reflux again.

New symptom 2 days ago of a painful hot swelling under my armpit. My team told me to contact my doctor an the fun started. 1 and half hours on hold and at 4.55 on a Friday no call back from the doctor.

(Due to logistics I am fortunate to be having my chemo with Bupa at the lovely genesis centre.)

I called the docs back, kicked up a stink and the doctor then called me back. My Doctor doesn't seem to like the private aspect...they shouldn't be telling you to call me, your team are useless... we have 23000 patients on our books...i couldn't beleivece what was coming out his mouth and I reminded him that it wasn't professional to be rude about other doctors. Consequently hubby drove me straight there for my impromptu appointment.

His tone changed slightly during the appointment, when I said I didn't feel confident that they were going to support me for the next 6 months. We also went backwards and forwards on the nhs private thing. To be clear I am an nhs patient under the treatment of a nhs hospital. I am only having chemo privately and with the agreement of my consultant

I was bitterly disappointed with the doctor, stress levels went up and during this scarey time I need to feel I have support if needed. I'm not a time waster and won't be bothering them unnecessarily but what do you do?

So today on hubby's 50th, we are having 2 patio doors installed, it is the 5th anniversary of the turning off of the life support of our dear friend Aunty Jan who was killed by a drunk driver, my hairdresser sister is coming to give me a grade 6 crop because I can't be arsed with my hair or the pain of the cold cap and to boot, I'm going to look for another Doctors surgery.

Life goes on strong ladies. Keep safe and beat this sucker. Xxx

Oh .. the lump undervthe armpit.. inflamed hair follicle.. got antibiotics

GRANNY59 over 3 years ago

Hi Julesgod54 welcome to the forum and I hope hubby has had a good day celebrating his birthday. You have made a huge effort for him so hopefully he will appreciate that which I'm sure that he will,

That GP is very unprofessional speaking to you like that and they are also very unprofessional expressing a personal opinion as opposed to a professional one. Before you swap practices why not have a chat with the practice Manager or lead whoever that is and explain why you are thinking about moving as they won't want patients to feel unhappy I'm sure. Glad at least you are getting the treatment that you need for the lump under your armpit.

Ive never heard of a grade 6 cut but in this weather and heat I'm sure it would be very cooling. xxxx

Beatthebreast over 3 years ago

Your GP doesn't sound very helpful or sensitive! I was very lucky to have amazing (NHS) care throughout, no delays, everyone wonderful and my GP called me as soon as they got the letter from my breast surgeon to say I had been diagnosed with BC - my GP called just to check I was OK. It must be rubbish to feel like your medical team aren't being that supportive.

I'm replying to your post because I wanted to say that I shaved my hair off ahead of chemo and felt great doing it - it actually felt very empowering and like I was actually in control of something! It made losing hair during chemo a complete non-event. I now have tonnes of hair (6 months post chemo) and it looks pretty cool short. I always had long hair and I don't think I would ever have cut it short so cancer has given me the experience of a buzz cut and lots of short hair styles as I grow it back. It's a lovely colour too - very similar to my hair colour before chemo so I am very happy with it.

I hope your medical team sort themselves out. To be fair to your GP, my oncologist was able to prescribe anything themselves to me whilst I was going through chemo, though a few times I did call GP for something really simple. Even since finishing, my GP has sometimes referred to the oncologist to check that they can prescribe something so soon after chemo. Maybe your GP was just feeling a bit out of their depth, but their behaviour and attitude was not the best!

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