Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts

Tuesday 21 September 2021

                                                    THE LAST POST-EVER






A glimmer of solar stuff, not a breath of atmospheric movement and a dearth of  skywater at the castle on this momentus day.

First up thank you for the birthday wishes, that's the good bit out of the way.


This will be the last post ever on this piss poor blog, many moons ago it seems that the old BIG C managed to get hold, and has continued to expand its foothold to the point where it is all over and all in.


The old smokes have done me in, but the really annoying thing is that has spread to the base of my spine inside my pelvis.

I have named that one-Boris because it truly is a pain in the arse.


Not after sympathy, I am buggered and have a few months at most, had twenty rounds of radiation and one round of chemo six weeks ago from which I still haven't recovered.


A bit of advice to others who are not going to make it:


1.The NHS is broken.


2.If you are terminal DO NOT accept their kind offer of Chemo, it is bloody brurutal and will set you back 6 or 7 weeks to gain a few days (I still have no sense of taste)


3. Take all the painkillers you can get your hands on.


4. Ignore all their advice on blood suger levels-apparently high bs makes you ill.


The point of this post is to let you know why I haven't been around and to thank you all for your visits and comments and all the other stuff.

That's about it really, have a long and happy life and be kind.


And today's thought (and a message to my GP)


I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan)



Ta-ta


Angus





Monday 8 June 2009

LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES


From the Telegraph Patients rushed to hospital with suspected cancer are having their treatment delayed so that managers can meet Government targets, an NHS investigation has found.

People arriving at Accident and Emergency departments with symptoms which could indicate the aggressive spread of the disease are waiting weeks for diagnosis and treatment while “routine” cases are prioritised.

Hospital managers told researchers that treating desperately sick patients more quickly would “reflect badly” on their performance against Government cancer targets which only cover those referred to specialists by GPs.

Doctors, patients groups and politicians were appalled by what one described as a “breathtaking admission” which confirmed their “very worst fears” about how far the NHS target culture has gone in distorting clinical priorities.

Although most people with suspected cancer are referred to hospitals by their GPs, more than 30,000 people diagnosed with the disease each year are first alerted to tumours by violent symptoms, such as seizures, vomiting and jaundice, which cause such alarm that patients go straight to their local A&E departments.

The report by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, an official health service agency which issues advice to hospital managers, says that many of these emergency patients waited six weeks or longer for basic tests.

It said they were “often” not given the same priority as patients who had been referred by GPs, who were covered by two targets, ensuring that they see a specialist within two weeks, and start treatment, following diagnostic tests, within two months.

“As a result, they can end up with a very poor experience before finally receiving a diagnosis and the right care,” it warns.
The report, due to be published tomorrow added: “Many trusts recognised the need to get some patients in this group onto the same pathway as people on the cancer two week wait [target] but were concerned this would reflect badly on their cancer figures”.

Some A&E departments failed to recognise the risk of cancer in seriously ill patients. In cases where the disease was suspected, patients were sent home to wait six weeks or longer for diagnostic tests. Others waited weeks on wards before seeing a specialist or having scans, the report, which is endorsed by the Government’s cancer tsar, found.


Been there done that with Mrs A, who was actually in hospital when they failed to diagnose cancer, six weeks is nothing, try SEVEN MONTHS, the trusts seem to have this “give up” attitude when faced with a patient who has cancer and has not been referred by their GP because the figures only relate to GP referrals, there are no guidelines for those who are already in hospital for something else or drag themselves to A&E and there is no comeback against the trusts because the NHS only considers that you have cancer if you go through the “official” channel-your GP.

Sadly this article is all too true, targets are more important than patients.

Angus