Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

I have a repeat prescription for my asthma inhalers and it's a doddle to organise, I either request a repeat online or post the repeat prescription to the surgery. They fill it out and pass it over to the Lloyds Pharmacy in Welwyn and I toddle over and pick it up. It works well because Lloyds is open until 6.30pm on a weekday and 1pm on a Saturday which is a lot easier to work around than surgery hours.

So cut to this morning when I dutifully toddle over to Welwyn to get my new inhaler (Seretide for those playing along). Now an asthma inhaler is not a large item, as I'm sure most of you know, so when the nice lady at Lloyds comes back with a very large box in her hands, I knew something was wrong. There was squeaking. We both look at my prescription and it's got a long list of items on it, like surgical swabs, dressings and bunch of other stuff that (I'm guessing) might have been what the District Nurse used when she visited after I got out of hospital. It does not, however, bear any resemblance to my usual prescription and, critically, there's no asthma inhalers on the list! Now the nice lady joins in the confused squeaking.

It takes about ten minutes and two further attempts at clarification but she finally finds both the prescription I put in last week plus one left over from November and yay! I now have inhalers! *clings* Both the pharmacy and myself are mildly baffled though because obviously the prescription I sent in to the surgery didn't have all the gubbins on it, just the regular stuff. I suspect Lloyds might be having a small word in the surgery's shell likes on Monday; I more than suspect I will be making a polite but firm phone call too, along the lines of "Get that crap off my repeat prescription!!"

Ah well, I've got what I need so all's well that ends well :) Now there will be tea! Hurrah!

The first half of the day wasn't too hot. First of all, I managed to get no sleep - my fault entirely, for drinking tea at the wrong time. Eh. Woke up and then did the usual morning routine. Decided that I needed to call the stoma nurses and did so (more details in the medical filter entry I'll get around to in a minute). Alison rang back within five minutes and on hearing my concern, suggested I popped in today to see her on the ward. So I leapt into some clothes and drove down to the QEII.

I've now found a great source of free parking near the hospital, so at least if I ever go back for the reversal surgery, I'll be able to save my visitors a small fortune :D Anyway, I was soon back on Codicote ward - no-one recognised me, but that's not surprising - and Alison came by not five minutes after I got there. All is well, I'm happy to say, and I scampered back home again.

After lunch, I crashed out for a couple of hours, which took the edge off things but has left me still sleepy enough to sleep tonight. I hope :)

Spent a a frustrating couple of hours beating the snot out of the compy and finally got the K-Lite Codec pack re-installed after it occurred to me that could be the reason none of my DVDs would play :) Once I got that sorted, my day improved. 3 fan fics that I follow all got updated today, so there was happy reading and with the dvd player working, there was happy West Wing watching.

And now there's a new season of Spooks on BBC! Yay! But I missed the first 20 mins and was all "Woe!" because they don't repeat ep 1, for some stupid reason. They show Episode 2 on BBC3 the same night, so if you watch on BBC3 and miss an episode after that, you can catch the BBC1 showing the next week. Then I remembered that the BBC will almost certainly make all the episodes available to download and relaxed. Gotta love technology :D

Hey jebbypal, Spooks Season 6 is available. Do you want to do a Spooks/Numb3rs swap again? Did that work out ok for you? Let me know :)