The news today is that my operation will take place on Monday 3 August and that the surgeon doing the deed will be Mr. Byrne who we have met. This is a week earlier than planned and can only be a good thing. In addition we need to go to Southampton to meet the anesthetist and that will take place on Thursday 23 July. That will also be the operation pre assessment ritual. The only good thing about procedures like that is that they check heart rate, blood pressure etc. and at least you find out if everything is okay.
Speaking of the NHS a woman came to do a survey on behalf of said NHS. She was only doing her job so I co-operated but I have grave doubts about surveys of this nature. To give one example I was asked to say how I rated the local NHS. I was given the following options very satisfied, quite satisfied, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, quite dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. Now if you are a regular reader of this blog you will know that I am impressed with my current GP, the two upper GI nurses not to mention Mr. Byrne. However I have not been happy with the attitude of at least two GPs here on the Island and communication within the Hospital and with patients has on occasions left a lot to be desired. Now how do you categorise that into a box to be ticked? We settled for neither satisfied nor dissatisfied. There is of course no space for qualifying your remarks. This kind of survey is just part of the box ticking culture.
So we move forward with only four weeks to go until the next part of the treatment. After that there exists the possibility of more chemotherapy. We have been musing on this subject today. Perhaps I shall have some thoughts on the subject in tomorrow's blog.
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