Catching up

I’ve got a bit behind with blogs this last week or so with not being so well. Basically, I had a bad cold and it really took it out of me. It’s been ages since I had a cold like that and it knocked me for six really. Started with my knee blistering, which cleared up then soon after the cold hit me. I’ve been generally run down though, very weary and had a blocked ear so I think it must’ve been a head cold. I went to the doctors and he prescribed me some ear drops which haven’t really worked and I’m still having trouble so it looks like I’ll have to go back to the docs Anyway...

While I was at the doctors getting the ear drops, my main reason for going was to get the results of my blood tests. I phoned up the week before to get the actual results and was asked to make an appointment with my doctor as there was a problem with my thyroid apparently. He explained that I am bordering on having an under-active thyroid. He said ‘bordering’ because it is not quite under-active but my pituitary gland is over compensating for the thyroid gland not functioning as it should, hence why I’ve lost weight etc over the last few months or so. The doctor says it would be pointless to treat it yet as there is a possibility that it could correct itself, so he wants to give me another blood test in two months to see how it’s going and we’ll take it from there.

The thyroid problem will explain a lot of things though, symptoms I mean. Generally run down, dizzy spells, tired all the time, loss of appetite (which is soooooo not like me!) etc. This has been going on for a while now, I know something isn’t right somewhere, and I‘d be lying if I said I wasn‘t starting to get worried - then again if you know me well you‘ll know that I worry about everything and anything lol . The doctor also said that the thyroid problem is a common thing after having a baby too which could also be the cause in my case.

In other news, just to update those of you who read my blog about my hospital ‘experience’ regarding having my bloods done. I’m pleased to say that I got a call to tell me that my complaint has been dealt with. The lady who rang from the hospital’s complaints department told me that the nurse in question had been spoken to about her attitude. I ended up telling my side of things over again because the lady from the hospital asked me a few questions to confirm a few things from my side regarding some things the nurse had said from her side of the story which weren’t exactly true (I wasn‘t impressed shall we say grrr...). I put it right though and told my side, and told them exactly how the nurse made me feel. The lady from the hospital was lovely though, we ended up having a good chat about things and she was very understanding. She asked me if I wanted to take the complaint any further and I said no. I just wanted to make them aware of what had happened, as I don’t want it happening again to someone else. I was also told during this telephone conversation that, notes were NOT taken about my condition etc as I assumed they did when I first rang the hospital to make the initial appointment for my bloods. I was under the impression that, as the lady I spoke to at the time asked me to spell the name of my condition, I thought she was making notes. I explained my condition pretty much from scratch which can take a while shall we say, as it was important I felt, that she and the staff there were made aware of what to expect when I arrived for my appointment. But it turns out that this wasn’t the case. Apparently all that was written down was ‘Uncomfortable with needles. Cream’ or words to that effect. So I said to the lady from the hospital complaints department, ‘so you mean to tell me that I explained everything, went through it all for nothing’ and she said ‘it appears so, and I apologise for that’. I made it clear that I wasn’t impressed by this. Like I say though the lady from the complaints department was lovely, and she said that the nurse in question would be spoken to again following that conversation on the phone. She apologised sincerely for the distress it caused me and ensured me they will take measures to ensure this doesn’t happen again. Oh well, it’s over with now onwards and upwards.