Recent Entries

• Did I say 'And Finally'? Silly me!

  by Susan James October 20, 2009
  I really ought to know better by now. After a couple of weeks chasing my tail and getting bugger all response from the clinic (and nor, I might add, was the hospital), I went down there on a surprise visit this morning. Guess what? They have no admin staff at all. Guess what? I did find out th...

• And Finally...

  by Susan James September 9, 2009
  And finally… Caution: Some minor descriptive text of operations is included. So, eventually, the next and final step is reached. Almost ten years to the day from when I first requested help, I have been told the surgeon will be contacting me in the next two weeks regarding the last part of my transf...

• by Susan James July 5, 2009
  Had Enough, Told Them Where To Shove It! About a month ago I wrote to the shrink and told him I had had enough. Not unexpectedly, I got a quick appointment.So I went down to see him and told him to his face that I was no longer interested in the program. I was totally pissed of with it all. Of all t...

• by Susan James April 5, 2009
  Fairground Horses  Anyone remember the old fairground ride, with the prancing horses? Well I do, anyway, and it often feels like life imitates that ride, up and down, up and down, yet it all comes full circle in the end.Looking back at my previous blogs I can see that cycle repeated in my own life, ...

• Why?

  by Susan James January 24, 2009
  Full circle and stopEmpty bed, empty room,Empty house, empty heart.Why us, why me,Why aren’t I free?No future, no life,Just pain, just strife,Maybe pills, maybe knife.Cries for help have gone unheard,Whether action, thought or word.The end is nigh, do not cry,To a better place I go,Where all are fri...

• Temporary glitch...

  by Susan James November 7, 2008
  If you’re going to lose your plot… make sure you bury it good and deep, and then make sure you are totally unaware you have ‘mislaid’ it. Like everything else I do, I made a good job of it.I see from my own scribblings that back in May everything was going swimmingly, and I was brimming with confide...

• Onwards and upwards...

  by Susan James May 3, 2008
  Good, and getting better all the time When you’re very young, you are always conscious of your age, that ‘and a half’ or ‘and three quarters’ are crucial and the next birthday is so far away. Then you hit your teens, and the extra year gets added so you can buy your first pack of cigarettes, then yo...

• On target in '08

  by Susan James February 14, 2008
  YESSSS!!!! Had my first trip to the local GIC today. And it went even better than I could have hoped.Recently the PCT’s in Devon ‘amalgamated’, and it is now one, Devon something or other. (Excepting Plymouth and Torbay, who are unitary authorities, and self-governing). Which means there have been c...

• Yes, 2008 is going to be a good year!

  by Susan James February 5, 2008
   A SECOND RED LETTER DAYI wrote once before about having a red letter day, when good news was received. As it turned out, it wasn't as good as I hoped at the time, and things did not go as expected. In fact they ended up down a cul-de-sac at Charing Cross Hospital.Anyone with even less to do than my...

• Up and flying high again

  by Susan James January 23, 2008
  ON THE REBOUNDAmazing what a week can do, isn’t it? A politician once said a week is a long time in politics, and I feel that can be applied to many other things as well, me being one of them. After writing that stuff the other day and getting it out my system, much as you do talking out with your b...