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Did I mention that Rob cut his finger when we racing at Lancaster last week?
He felt something dragging under the bike on the start line, reached down to see what it was - and found it was a gear cable, whose outer plastic case had scraped off and which sliced his finger, causing considerable gore.
Anyway, it seemed to heal up quite well, until this weekend when we noticed the cut finger was swollen and hot. We tried soaking it in hot salty water several times over the weekend, but to no avail, so this evening, on the suggestion of the nice receptionist at our local doc, I took him to the new Walk-In Centre at what used to be the Derby Royal Infirmary, but is now the London Road Community Hospital (no, I have no clue...). He's been issued with antibiotics like small boulders, which will hopefully send the nasty bugs packing and told to see his GP if he's no better in 48 hours.
I have to say the Walk-In centre was excellent - everybody was nice and helpful and he was seen within a few minutes. The nice nurse seemed quite surprised than a man who uses a white stick to walk had to pay for his prescriptions though, which struck me as a tad ableist, albeit probably not consciously so.
He felt something dragging under the bike on the start line, reached down to see what it was - and found it was a gear cable, whose outer plastic case had scraped off and which sliced his finger, causing considerable gore.
Anyway, it seemed to heal up quite well, until this weekend when we noticed the cut finger was swollen and hot. We tried soaking it in hot salty water several times over the weekend, but to no avail, so this evening, on the suggestion of the nice receptionist at our local doc, I took him to the new Walk-In Centre at what used to be the Derby Royal Infirmary, but is now the London Road Community Hospital (no, I have no clue...). He's been issued with antibiotics like small boulders, which will hopefully send the nasty bugs packing and told to see his GP if he's no better in 48 hours.
I have to say the Walk-In centre was excellent - everybody was nice and helpful and he was seen within a few minutes. The nice nurse seemed quite surprised than a man who uses a white stick to walk had to pay for his prescriptions though, which struck me as a tad ableist, albeit probably not consciously so.
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Well, you put them on your eyes to stop them being puffy, so maybe they're supposed to help reduce swelling if you eat them too.... :-)
Well, no but her next question was "Do you work then?" as if she'd assumed that a partially sighted person couldn't possibly hold down a job. A nurse really ought to know better than that, I'd have thought.
The clinic is quite handy for where Rob works - only a few minutes' drive away and easy to get to.
It's on the site of what used to be the main hospital for the city, but they've built a new one a little further out and now parts of the old hospital have been converted to more specialist uses.
I'm sure you don't mean it that way, but the nurse's next question was "Do you work then?" as if a partially sighted person being able to hold down a job was a new and startling concept for her. That's what I was remarking on, because she really should have known better, I reckon.
Or do registered blind people usually get payment exemptions?
What gets me is the idiocy of the current prescription system. Living in Wales I don't pay for 'scrips anyway, but under the English system I wouldn't pay because ONE of the drugs I take is exempt from charges. I don't understand in the least why that should entitle me to free unrelated drugs. No wonder the NHS loses money.
Actually, I have no idea... :-)
Google says not, although you get free eye tests. But then I get those too, because I'm over 40 and my father suffered from Glaucoma.
That is pretty odd...
When I was paying for my 'scrips I had a 'season ticket'. I could never understand why anyone complained about the cost of 'scrips, because that ticket paid for itself so quickly. Actually, I can't understand occasional (note that word - I'm not including people who have regular repeats, for whom the cost can be prohibitive without an annual ticket) meds users complaining at all. Generally speaking, the cost of the 'scrip is nothing to the cost of the drug.
Yes, Mum had one of those until she reached pension age and got them free. Saved her quite a lot of money over the years.
Compared to the US system where you either pay for insurance or pay for all healthcare at point of use, it's a huge bargain.
I get repeats for my blood pressure drugs, but they give me two months supply at a time so it doesn't cost enough to be worth getting a season ticket. I'm jolly glad to get them though.
He gave me a look that said "Yeah, as if" and said he'd be fine, and didn't want any dirty plants on his wounds. My cut healed just fine, his had swelled up the next morning, and turned his finger blue.
(After which followed a whole day of getting a doctor, and getting the prescription out at the pharmacy - it's all nicely and efficiently computerised in Sweden, but the system borked on having someone with a Swedish NI number, but no address.)
Oh dear! Perhaps he'll listen to you next time (yeah, I know, pigs might fly :-)).
I hope he healed up properly once you got the computer to admit you exist!
Sorry. I giggled at the description.
Hope Rob OK soon.
No need to be sorry :-) We laughed at them too.
Thank you - the pills seem to be working already, thank goodness.
Also, welcome back!
Is good. May be he like small boulders :)
Thank you.
In Canada you don't get medication free unless you're getting welfare [the dole], if you have a registered disability, or if your company has given you medical benefits that include prescription drugs. John is a teacher, thank goodness, because my medication, otherwise, would be costing us about $600 Canadian dollars a month.
I've often wondered what kind of job Rob does. It must be difficult to work with such limited vision. No discrimination is meant by either of my preceding statements.
He's a software engineer. Currently he writes and/or tests the software that controls the engines of jet airliners. (not as much fun as it sounds :-)).
He can cope fairly well with computer screens - he has reasonable vision in his good eye for that - his problem is mainly lack of peripheral vision,especially below the vertical, which makes it very hard to see obstacles, and the fact that when he had his cataracts removed, they inserted artificial lenses which means his vision is fixed-focus.