Someone Cares

Someone cares

Thursday 26th January 2012

The day it all began to go right again!

First though, remember my GP telling me that they had arranged an appointment with a specialist? So here I am, checked in at reception at the community hospital, sitting waiting my turn and soon enough I'm led though and introduced to?  A consultant endocrinologist? No.  A bloody nurse!

Fair enough, very nice lady, introduces herself as a Nurse Consultant (?), all I hear is 'nurse'.

Soddit.  Deep breath, calm, hold back the black thoughts of "just wait 'til I see the sodding GP".  Here we go again I thought, having to explain it all to someone who won't be able to do a damn thing about it, don't they get just how shitty I'm feeling?

As it turns out I was meeting with an angel.

Not only did she "get it", she asked incredibly good questions, dug into every aspect of the symptoms, checked and rechecked details, and with hindsight, I'm pretty sure she could have wrapped the consult up in about 30 min, but she let me talk and allayed my concerns for about two hours.

I finally felt as if someone was not only listening, but actually knew what my symptoms meant.  Knew what to do about it.  Could offer a solution!!

"Great" said I, "so do you now have to make an appointment for me with a consultant?" - thinking that, nice as this has been, I really need treatment of some sort and that means a consultant, right?

So she repeated, "I'n a Nurse Consultant specialising in Diabetes, I can write out the prescriptions for you right now"

Two hours later and I had all the supplies I needed to get started on injecting insulin!!

Next episode:  Graphs, Charts, Data - Why?