Recent Entries

• by Susan James January 14, 2006
    And Finally... With a great clashing of gears, and general grumbling from the mechanism of the NHS, thing move towards their eventual climax. YES, they have got their act together at last, thanks mainly to Laverne in the funds department. She managed almost singlehandedly to get all the v...

• 2005 was...

  by Susan James December 26, 2005
  a bit of a non-event in many respects. Lots of not-a-lot-happened, if that makes any sense. I know I did the Charing Cross thing, but that being the complete waste of time and effort it always is, doesn’t count as any more than a minor annoyance on the scale of things, Especially as nothing has com...

• WHY?

  by Susan James November 16, 2005
  Do I bother going on. A couple of weeks ago, I was told by work that I was not moving to a certain other department, but to the third covered by our outsourcing call centre provider. Customer service I can do. Outgoing calls, emails, white (snail) mail I can do. But I ain't no sales person. Guess wh...

• APPLYING FOR MY HALO

  by Susan James November 14, 2005
  Because I must have the patience of a saint. Today's farce began at just after 2pm, when I was called in to the ultrasound scan room for them to complete the final inflation of my implants. It was not the same doctor as last time, but I thought that would not matter, he will know what he is doing...

• P.S. to 9th November

  by Susan James November 12, 2005
  Two days after I had words with the administrators at Charing Cross, I received a letter. Nothing to do with the surgery, of course, but an appointment for 22nd December to see the shrink again. Oh joy. I phoned them today, got an answerphone, so relatively politely declined to make the trip three ...

• All Good Things...

  by Susan James November 9, 2005
  Come to those who wait. Ha bl**dy Ha. It's a good thing I am a patient person. Thanks mainly to the hormones, I reckon. I'm sure I'm not the only person who really would like to get hold of some of the 'Red Tape' used by administrators, and have a lynching party. In August, as I mentioned before...

• More Nothing

  by Susan James October 17, 2005
  Not much to add yet. No further progress re breasts. They tried once more to finish the expansion, but again could not do it, so back under the scanner I go. No date yet. No surprise. Only positive news is that I can go bigger than I first thought, if I want to, by another 50ml. I'll sleep on that. ...

• by Susan James September 18, 2005
    As you can see, the second stage is now complete! There was still some difficulty getting the expansion to work, but after some persistence, work it did! Only one more to go - I'm really pleased with the results so far, and am looking forward to the next bit. Not without a little apprehen...

• Another Small Step

  by Susan James September 3, 2005
  Latest on the boobs. No, not the mistakes made, but the real thing :) Dear Dr has written to the radiology clinic, suggesting that they should be able to bring the date for the scan forward, due to the fact that 'she is lopsided, and needs to crack on' (unquote). He actually has quite a good sense ...

• by Susan James August 28, 2005
  Yet Another Non-Event!!! Went up Thursday to the Gender Clinic at Charing Cross. May I just remind you, these visits are at their request, not out of any desire on my part to see them. This time it was Dr Lenihan again, the second time I have seen her. She was not impressed by the letter ...