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Posted by on March 26th 2022 in A bit of a rant, Health, or lack thereof, Name and Shame

The MaxFax saga goes on...

After way over a year of both my GDP and MaxFax leaving my LR7 to rot in place rather than treat it, MaxFax got around to extracting it on Sunday 6th February. The locum dental consultant did an epic job with inadequate (paediatric) dental tools, having to resort to drill, scalpel and brute force to remove about 20 bits of shattered molar roots, and putting in half a dozen stitches to close the wound. I was given antibiotics sufficient for five days, and sent home. In typical fashion, the letter from that clinic eschews the facts and states that the job was done on a Saturday, presumably meaning on the 5th February. Ho hum, no great shakes.

But that clinic letter also states that they would review me in "three to four weeks' time", so that would have been any day from Saturday 26th February to Sunday 6th March inclusive, right?

Wrong.

UHL Booking Office ignored the principles of the Gregorian Calendar that the rest of the western world has been using for nearly half a millennium, and decided that "three to four weeks' time" would mean Tuesday 22nd February. Four to twelve days too early, that calculation depending on more factors than I've got teeth.

At that review it was clear that the first lot of antibiotics hadn't prevented infection, so I left with a second course of them, and with the requirement for another review "in two weeks' time" to see if the infection had been cleared. So that would have been Tuesday 8th March, right?

Wrong again.

Try Tuesday 29th March. Exactly three weeks late:

 

 

Well, we have to take what we can get, so when the reminder text arrived on Tuesday 22nd March, I duly confirmed that I would attend:

 

 

All sorted, right?

Wrong yet again.

This arrived this morning:

 

 

Clearly it doesn't say that the Tuesday 29th clinic is cancelled or postponed, so I have to assume that it's a bona fide appointment for me to attend on Thursday 31st March.

As it stands, I need to attend twice in three days to have two different people look at the battle-scars from one extraction. It's utterly nonsensical.

There really is no foreseeable end to the sorry tale of UHL Booking Office's ineptitude.

For all mankind… to see

Posted by on March 19th 2022 in Astrostuff, In the News
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Russian cosmonauts Denis Matveyev, Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Korsakov, all in Ukrainian colours, boarding the International Space Station:

It was live-streamed by both NASA and Roscosmos, so there's a fair chance that Putin saw it but couldn't stop others there seeing it.

 

War paint

Posted by on March 15th 2022 in In the News
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In case you hadn't noticed, the place has had a less-than-subtle make-over.
I can't tell you about the other support that I'm helping to provide, except to say that it's digital.

Courage

Posted by on March 14th 2022 in In the News, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Writ large:

The Beeb's article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60744605

BANG! and the dirt is gone

Posted by on March 6th 2022 in In the News, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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It's sad that the crew died while following the orders of a deranged idiot,
but I dread to think how many innocent lives could have been lost if that crew had managed to execute those orders.

Dobby Does Donbas

Posted by on February 24th 2022 in Name and Shame
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