Vocal Voices

Nick Buckles was full of smiles last night, as the chief of G4S he was responsible for the humiliating shambles he created at the Olympics. He was all smiles following his on the spot resignation knowing he was going to get a nice fat cheque for 16M.
And then we have a man who should be called Dr Death (he was no doctor of course) but he was responsible for thousands of deaths due to government targets that he went along with, there have been no apologies! and he is still supported by government.. Nicholson has decided to quit next year.. His reward a nice fat golden handshake and a massive pension of £110,000 a year...There are more ways of murdering people than placing them in gas chambers...
This is the NHS that destroyed my now 53 year old daughters life, leaving her with severe and I mean evere breathing problems.. Forced to live on £99.00 a week, no disability allowance, that has been stopped. She has been told she must find a job!!
The crooks in our society are rewarded like B'LIAR.MANDY, THE KINNOCKIOS, AND AT LEAST 70% if not more of MP's, one and the same in government (and the Lords?) who are now going to get a £10,000 a year increase in their salaries.. Nice thought to mull over as they take yet another holiday

Kate, I would not accept that a top ENT chappie could not do something for your daughter but it would probably mean Harley Street and quite a bit of dosh. Maybe you could try your luck with Channel 4`s Embarrassing Bodies, it is a sad but interesting case and might just grab them enough to give her the works.

My daughter went on TV when the programme first started a few years ago talking about her condition Tuberous Sclerosis, she was mortified at the angle they took on some cases and she found the programme embarrassing.. They paid nothing for expenses to get to the studio's and failed to even pay her petrol costs!! She had two agonising dermabrasion that did little for her.. It may have improved for a couple of months but that was it.. As for her present condition I took her to London to what was York House a private clinic in St Thomas's that we used if we needed to when we were in UK.. I discovered the crap on her records that GP's and her endocrinologist a supposed specialist had been saying it was outrageous , one being that she was of low intelligence.. (she was UK and N. Ireland manager for Life Housing"!!) for six years she consulted doctors about the goitre and tiredness she was suffering and generally feeling unwell.... No reason to operate they said, your thyroid is within normal etc etc etc!!.. A new GP took one look and was horrified it turned out following our consultation in London that surgery was urgently recommended.. The surgeon an Indian in Bedford who she had to go and see was having a bad day.. "Why are you here? " he asked.. "Have you not read my notes" asked my daughter.. He blew his top, became very aggressive she burst into tears and walked out.... The nurse in attendance was very upset at the fellow. I then pursued various avenues to get her into a different hospital,, St Thomas's would have liked to have dealt with the goitre, but Bedford would not agree, and I was happy when they came up with Addenbrooks.. What a ruddy shambles.. The fellow who operated was Indian not the surgeon who we thought was going to do the job..., it was the largest mass they had ever removed so big they requested to keep it for teaching purposes had gone from the right side of her neck to the left and had grown to the extent it was below her breast bone. Her thyroid was removed, the shocking mass was removed and the damaged her trachea her breathing is terrible laboured and frightening, she is terrified to have a tracheotomy knowing the implications of them.. Poor woman is 53 years of age, has had ten years of misery and she feels she has no future.. Her disability has been removed so she is struggling on a shockingly small income and my help...Nothing from the big charity she worked for. I took out litigation, but the judicial system and the NHS are joined at the hip.. I worked in H.Street for three years on my return from overseas.

Thanks Kate for the full sad story. It is apparent I think that she will need further surgery to improve her quality of life, like trachea repair or replacement but I can understand the reluctance for an operation. Have always had an interest in the thyroid since my mother had Graves very badly but she refused the operation , did her homework and managed the shrink it eventually. Very difficult to take it out like the prostate without damaging some vital nerves.

Kate that is a horrific story, poor poor Gus

The NHS seems to be such a lottery - you can be lucky and have fantastic treatment, or unlucky like poor Gus and be treated appallingly ((((((((((((((((x)))))))))))))))))))))))))

And there is no comeback whatsoever. Oh yes, you can sue them. But any award comes out of the patient care budget, not the doctors or consultants pay...

That has to change before some of these doctors will stand up and take notice.

Kaz as mentioned previously It took six months and my threat to take my husband to London before my doctor took action and decided to organise the appropriate tests on him whom they had been treating with antacids for Reflux..
Within days of my exploding in the surgery, threatening hell fire, and telling them I would take him to London for a second opinion a hurried appointment was made for him to see a specialist at our hospital.
The results were what I anticipated and feared, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, given months
to live.. In actual fact he lived for almost eighteen months (I cannot really remember how long) he was an inspiration to the patients in Cheltenham when he had his regular stays, he never once complained.
I drove him to Portugal a couple of months before he died we smoked cigar's, drank brandy, in actual fact he looked amazing but went downhill very quickly after that. He insisted on taking me away for my birthday to Devon, don't know how we got there it was a nightmare!! we returned bless him and he died a few days later, as mentioned two days before Yasmin's wedding and also the fact his Oncologist and his family came from Cheltenham for the wedding. That is the state of the NHS in so many areas. The good and the bad! On the other hand however I cannot fault my own care.. It is the luck of the draw.
The rot starts with GP's and is perpetuated up line if one is unlucky. We read locum doctors are paid £1,500 a day in hospitals and for home visits.. Money for old rope..
Your mother sounded very sensible pederito. I wish I had acted on my daughters behalf sooner.

Do please try Ch 4 Kate unless she is totally opposed to further surgery. The NHS was very good over Pep, it started after a lovely trip on the Barrier Reef when she found a small breast lump. X rays and scans found it was malignant with a renal and a lung tumour but no obvious symptoms. We had the breast operated on privately but the surgeon did not feel up to kidney removal and put us on to another who wished to do it in his NHS hospital. So we transferred and continued on NHS treatment but she could not take the full chemo though she had every care from them for two and a half years and only really suffered in the last few weeks.

Bless her pederito, it is not an easy journey and the other half often suffers more than the patient, we like yourself were lucky in so many ways when he got to Cheltenham they were marvellous, as is the local hospital cancer unit where I was treated.. Fab oncologist, great staff.. However the loss of a loved one leaves a great void in ones life.