21^st October 2014 [Blog No. 58]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

Yesterday I received an email from Sheena Woolley, The Rt. Hon. Mr Kevin J Barron MP’s Constituency secretary. Sheena copied onto me a copy of a letter dated 7^th October 2014 which Mr Barron had received from Dame Julie Mellor’s shirt-lap employee called Suzannah Beazley, as opposed to Dame Julie Mellor responding to Mr Barron MP directly herself. It was no more than I had expected. There was no mention of the cover-up by the Ombudsman’s Office by them issuing two separate complaints numbers etc, and I am therefore taking Mr Barron up on his previous offer in bringing my case up before the House in Health Questions.

I also enclose here a copy of my letter dated 11^th October 2014 to the Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barron MP so as to update you on what is happening at that end. You should find it self-explicit.

As I explained in my last blog (No.57) a month ago, I had seen a gentleman at our GP Practice who confirmed he was not actually a GP but who had called himself an Advanced Practitioner. I had attended for a repeat prescription for Gabapentin pain-killers for the ongoing pain in my Right foot. He referred me for x-rays to be taken of my foot at their Radiology Centre but when I saw him again for the x-ray results his attitude had altered somewhat, and he had reacted the same as medics had done who had gone before. He said the x-ray results of my Right foot had shown nothing untoward other than osteoporosis. He said the report reported on no fracture been evident but he went onto advise me that that all depended on the amount of radiation used/exposed in the process.

The report for the 3/10/2014 x-rays reported: “The bones are generally osteoporotic. No fracture apparent. In particular there is no plain film evidence for a stress fracture. There are minimal degenerative changes in the first MTP joint. Nil else to note. No change compared with a previous x-rays from May 2013”.

Now, one particular matter springs to mind and that is that when I had attended the Bassetlaw Hospital and had x-rays taken of my Right knee in July 1996 their x-ray report reported on “No Change to films of 1991” but both the films of my Right knee in 1991 and 1996 showed a bony lesion to be situated on the medial aspect of my Right knee at those times. You will recall from reading my previous blogs that it was that bony lesion that had given me a debilitating crippling pain in my Right knee since the operation to remove the patella from my Right knee in August 1987. The bastards knew the bony lesion was there at those times but it clearly suited them all not to advise me of that fact due to the then pending litigation being brought against a colleague of theirs.

They all lied about the reason for my pain instead, and left me crippled with pain!!!! They put the unnecessary and botched Guanethidine Pain-Block injection directly into my Right foot as opposed to a vein, in November 1993. Then in December 1998 (in a sound recorded conversation) I was advised by a surgeon (one very experienced in Guanethidine Pain-Block injections he said) that the injection should have been put into my knee and not my foot, in any event if the pain was in my knee. You can see that I’ve been well and truly stitched-up by our NHS and their complaints’ procedures!!! Take note because this could well happen to you!!!

Anyway, back to the more recent times; this so called Advanced Practitioner had previously requested that I furnish him with a list of all the medics whom I had seen in the past so as not to refer me onto any of them again, and he could clearly see that the Rotherham DG Hospital had been at the forefront of my complaints in the past. I did copy the list into my last blog.

He had suggested that he should refer me to a consultant in Manchester, one that he had in mind but he appeared now to be reluctant to refer me onto anyone. His attitude had certainly changed somewhat.

However, he did refer me and I have now received a “Choose and Book” form to see someone of my own choosing but not in Manchester it’s to be at either at the RDGH or RC Health Centre, which is of course out of the question. I am now asking myself who it is that has got at this guy in some way and made him change his mind???? This is seen by me as history repeating itself. See extract from booking form copied below.

This Advanced Practitioner had, at the first consultation, advised me that I should not have been left by medics to diagnose myself without medical supervision as to whether or not I should be wearing the fibreglass boot/back-slab but he then left me at the last consultation to do exactly that!!! However, he did accede to my request for copies of my x-rays, reports and referral letters which I have now obtained in a copy CD from their Radiology Department.

On Friday, 24^th October I will have had the fibreglass boot (back-slab) on my Right foot for some twelve weeks and left with no indication whatsoever as to how long I should expect to wear it, permanently or otherwise!!!

We will see what the Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barron has to say about Dame Julie Mellor and her so-called response when I see him next time, which will be Saturday 25^th October 2014.

I currently feel in a very low place by the way I have been, and still am being badly treated by our NHS and the medics.

This true story continues …….

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