Yet again we see the Beeb playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order...
Let's look at the details...
The United Nations Human Right Council (on line 2) is a fiction, it should be the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The correct initialism for the United Nations Human Rights Council is UNHRC, not UNHCR.
The UNHCR is a different UN organisation, it's the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
CHURN is what the Beeb does to initialisms.
Now lets move on to the painful/tender left breast issue...
Back on 3rd March I was rudely awakened by one of the GP's docs flying a desk at my local surgery. I'd had a face-to-face appointment booked for 12:30 to try to get some treatment regarding the "rotator-cuff injury" that first became an issue in February 2021, but Dr. K. S. fucked up - for some bizarre reason the £millions spent on his professional training/salary counted for nothing when he woke me up at stupid o'clock in the morning, claiming that I'd arranged a telephone consultation. After I'd torn him a new one he said to attend at 12:30, but he called again at stupid o'clock + 15 minutes, asking for me to attend at 11:00.
Some people just don't know when to back off, and this doc was one of those people. He'd set himself up for what happened later...
More on that MaxFax saga...
I called the UHL Fooking Office today, regarding that pair of appointments:
The phone-jockey said that the appointment for 29th March had been cancelled on the 24th... the same day that the 31st March appointment was generated.
Clearly they must think that I'm psychic, as the second letter doesn't say anything about any cancellation or postponement.
Then the phone-jockey claimed that on 24th March they sent out a separate letter regarding the cancellation. Now, I'd have thought that it would have been in the same postal run as the new appointment, and would have arrived here on Saturday 26th. Indeed, any sane person would have detailed the cancellation in the second appointment letter... or would have put both letters in the one envelope. But no, common-sense did not prevail.
So far I've seen neither hide nor hair of said cancellation letter, so I reckon I've been fed yet another helping of admin cop-out bullshit.
As I said, there really is no foreseeable end to the sorry tale of UHL Booking Office's ineptitude.
And yes, I understand that their "no tolerance anti-abuse policy" covers telephone conversations...
but I've got news for them...
I have a similar policy, mine covers abuse of my patience, and includes an anti-bullshit clause.
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.
Let's just take a minute to think about how this is going to work...
A few months ago the NHS kindly sent me a single PCR Home Testing Kit, because I'm "At Higher Risk".
The idea is that if any of my regular LFTs return a positive result, I then take the Home PCR test ASAP and send the sample to the lab ASAP via either a courier or the Priority Post system. If that test returns a positive result as well, I get a call to hot-foot it to hospital to get drugged up again. The sooner the meds are in, the more effective they'll be. Five days is the limit, after that they'll be of no use to me whatsoever. On the menu are Dexamethasone, Sotrovimab, Paxlovid and Molnupiravir, and if they want me to have another vaccine jab I'm going to push for Novavax because 2xAZ + 3xPfiz won't have worked.
But... if I don't have any LFT kits here because they'll only be issued when I'm symptomatic, how the Hell will I know when to deploy the Home PCR kit?
If it takes a day to get LFT kits, and another day to get the Home PCR sample to the lab, and another day to process it and let me know the result, that's three of my five days wasted, and that's not even factoring-in any weekend interference.
No, it's not going to work.
