Tuesday, 17 May 2011

I must have killed a Chinaman..

... in fact a whole gang of them.

The builder doing the conservatory was due to finish it today. When he hadn't arrived by 10:30 I texted him, whereupon he replied that he wouldn't be appearing today as the transmission in his van was broken. Entreaties to beg, borrow or steal an alternative form of transport seemed to fall on deaf ears.

The insurance company dishing out Jo's physiotherapy finally responded to my calls after 5 months, loftily prounouncing that treatment had ceased as the physiotherapist was supposed to have reported that Jo's condition was now as it was before the accident. When I asked for a copy of the report I was curtly informed that it was confidential.

That is not what we agreed to and is not what we were informed she would report by the physiotherapist, the latter of whom was unavailable to confirm or deny this diagnosis. No one had informed us that treatment had ceased, the insurance company claiming it was the physiotherapist's responsibility to inform us.

This is deeply concerning as NHS physiotherapy had ceased on the commencement of this private treatment but will restart as soon as we inform them that is the case. Obviously precious time has been lost.

I fully expect to find China's population to be decimated should I ever visit there again.

Posted by Unknown at 17:30

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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.