Blood from a stone

Well I just rang the gender clinic again requesting copies of my last 2 blood test results. Usual response – "Oh we don’t normally send them to patients…"

Each time I’ve had the tests though the consultants have promised that they would arrange for them to be sent to me, and if that didn’t happen then I could just get them off my GP. My GP hasn’t had the last two results either so I’m pretty stuck aren’t I.

I explained once again that each of the consultants who’d seen me agreed to include me in receiving the results, and this time I have it in writing! In a report to my GP following my last meeting, Dr Lenihan specifically mentioned me getting the results (after I’d gone on at her for all the phone calls I’d made which were apparently ignored), so the secretary can have no excuses, and she’d better bloody well do what the doctor ordered. Of course it’s never that simple for her:

"Lucy, can I ask you to put this in writing, it’s just I’ve got so much stuff on my desk that needs dealing with…"

I don’t know why she couldn’t take the details and just do it there and then, now I guess she’ll have another thing on her desk that needs dealing with. She’s probably hoping that I can’t be bothered to write her a letter. Bless. She obviously doesn’t know me.

The "too busy" excuse really annoys me; they always say that. They should realise that if they are too busy to actually deal with the patients there's not much point in their existence is there. Imagine travelling to the other end of the country to be measured up for a dress, the dressmaker orders the fabric, then when you ring up asking, "Where’s the dress you were supposed to be making…?" you get the reply, "Oh we don’t actually make the dresses, we have so many fittings to do, and then there’s the stocktaking, and the accounts, we’re far too busy to make any dresses."

You’d be pretty pissed wouldn’t you?

So anyway, I’ve done a brief and polite letter, if that doesn’t work she will get one of "my letters". I can do letters, I’m good at that. She won’t know what’s hit her.

No bad reactions yet to the Vaniqa, which is good. My skin does seem to be quite sensitive, doesn’t even like moisturiser if it’s got perfume in it. E45 I can just about handle. I’ve been in touch with a girl on one of my support sites who has been using Vaniqa for years and for her it has worked brilliantly. It’ll probably take a couple of months to see any results so I’ll be keeping my fingers tightly crossed, except when I’m actually applying the cream, that would just be silly.

The band have a gig this Saturday after a 4 week break, so I’d better go and do some practice. Anything more than a week without playing and I get really rusty.

Oh and I have my second voice therapy session tomorrow, so I shall be talking to myself whilst practising on the keyboard. At the first session we just did breathing and relaxation stuff, so I’m hoping this time she might actually teach me how to speak. Can’t do everything via letters can I!

xx