I had a phone call from the doctor today. It was a cheery enough phone call, because I am a lucky man and like my doctors. However, the news was rather depressing. I have been reclaimed by the anti-coagulant team and been put on Warfarin again. My next blood test is Monday.
It seems I am too heavy to be put on the new drug, which may not be powerful enough to do the job. My fault for being so fat, nobody tied me down and forced m to eat, so there is nobody else to blame. It would have been nice if the doctor had spotted this before giving me false hope, but I had a pleasant two or three days before it all fell apart.
The problem is that the anti-coagulant team runs the department like a bunch of petty tyrants. They can’t abide the thought of anyone evading their clutches and they can’t envisage a life without Warfarin. Despite the claims in the video they play you as part of the indoctrination, it does interfere with your life and they make no effort to be flexible. They once demanded that I break off in the middle of a holiday to drive 40 miles to hospital and have a blood test. When I told them there was no way that was going to happen they decided to be more flexible. It was a five day holiday and I’m not spending the best part of a day messing about with a blood test.
Another time they set a student nurse onto me. She rang me then told me, quite aggressively, that I had to start taking my Warfarin properly as my test results were unacceptably inconsistent. I had, it seemed, failed to hit the target on nearly fifty percent of the tests. (Teaching them how to bully patients is obviously a responsibility they take seriously). I did a quick calculation in my head.
“I think you’ll find, ” I said,” that I have hit the target every time for the last six months. The problem is with the early tests when i was being tested two or three times a week and you couldn’t get my dosage right.”
“Oh!”
She then went silent, tapped a few keys and agreed that I was right. The simple truth is that Warfarin is a very imprecise treatment and the anti-coagulant team aren’t much use when it starts to get out of control.
So there you are. Imagine me as a victim, teetering on the edge of a pit as arms reach out to garb my legs and pull me down…
I went for Big Brother today, as he’s the nearest thing to a pit of demons that I have in my media.
Then, to make my day even worse, I broke eBay.
I am sorry the new medication did not work out. That is a disappointment.
Yes, but it is a great incentive to lose weight. 🙂
You broke eBay? Talk about burying the lead…
It seems to have recovered… 🙂
😉
Mm, I was wondering – how did you break Ebay?
Sorry about the Warfarin palaver!
Amongt other eBay problems that were caused by their server, I managed to get trapped in some sort of ebay loop where all my drafts started putting themselves into their own description box, thus filling it with Javascript links which eBay don’t accept. It is still happening intermittently. It may be exaggeration to say I broke eBat, but I certainly broke our bit of it…
Sounds like Ebay broke itself!
https://youtu.be/taLuqiZwh_8
How disappointing. I am so sorry, Simon.
It is the penalty for my weight. Something must be done. I will eat helium next time I am weighed and hope to float lightly on the scales.
Now that’s an idea! 🙂
🙂
Oh, gosh!
It is a chance to demonstrate fortitude…. 🙂
I am lost for words for once. I send you good wishes.
What cannot be cured must be endured. Looks like time for a serious diet…
That is hard work. Good luck with it.
🙂 Thank you.