To keep followers up to date, all going well. We have returned from a lovely holiday in France, HOT.
Jan is scheduled a 2 year check up mammagram this month, followed by an appointment with the surgeon. We expect and pray that all will be well...
But for statisticians the 2 and 5 year checks show peaks in recurrenc rates.....
Monday, August 2, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Politics, elections, and cofunding
England seems to be in turmoil now that elections are just 2 days away. Both Gordon Brown for labour and Nick Clegg for the Liberals bang on and on about fairness......
The more we hear and think the less fairness there seems to be. We always wonder why we pay far more tax as a married couple, we could save money by divorcing. Is that fair, yet when Conservatives try to partially redress this imbalance they are slated as robbing the poor to subsidise the rich?
Why do our taxes pay for the police to crack down on heroin abuse yet at the same time our NHS prescribe it free to registered addicts in Brighton? Crazy! Is it fair that my taxes fund this waste?
I saw a paper showing how chemotherapy costs more to treat "large" people. Specifically those with larger body surface area, or more skin, as they need higher doses of expensive drugs! Is it fair that thin people pay the same or more taxes as they are more likely to be in work than overweight lay abouts who cost the health service more?
It seems we will be in for a period of austerity after the budget. It must affect health service funding. A TV program last night suggested a possible solution might be "co-funding" where the patient pays part of the cost of treatment. Amazing how something so obvious and now necessary has so far been rejected and in one breast cancer case barred a lady from further NHS treatment!
Ah, we must vote! But is our voting system fair? We live in a safe seat area, so in fact our vote counts for nothing! Fairness????? We need an investigation into our rigged elections! I was pleased to hear Anne Widdecombe MP talking on the radio two days ago. As a Christian she was standing down from parliament, but said it was now a "house of ill repute"
Thank God our main loyalty is to our heavely home!
The more we hear and think the less fairness there seems to be. We always wonder why we pay far more tax as a married couple, we could save money by divorcing. Is that fair, yet when Conservatives try to partially redress this imbalance they are slated as robbing the poor to subsidise the rich?
Why do our taxes pay for the police to crack down on heroin abuse yet at the same time our NHS prescribe it free to registered addicts in Brighton? Crazy! Is it fair that my taxes fund this waste?
I saw a paper showing how chemotherapy costs more to treat "large" people. Specifically those with larger body surface area, or more skin, as they need higher doses of expensive drugs! Is it fair that thin people pay the same or more taxes as they are more likely to be in work than overweight lay abouts who cost the health service more?
It seems we will be in for a period of austerity after the budget. It must affect health service funding. A TV program last night suggested a possible solution might be "co-funding" where the patient pays part of the cost of treatment. Amazing how something so obvious and now necessary has so far been rejected and in one breast cancer case barred a lady from further NHS treatment!
Ah, we must vote! But is our voting system fair? We live in a safe seat area, so in fact our vote counts for nothing! Fairness????? We need an investigation into our rigged elections! I was pleased to hear Anne Widdecombe MP talking on the radio two days ago. As a Christian she was standing down from parliament, but said it was now a "house of ill repute"
Thank God our main loyalty is to our heavely home!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Great news on grandson
We received very good news on my grandson last week. He has had a difficult start, three visits to hospital in the first 5 weeks of life, once in intensive care, and an initial diagnosis of 10% mortality rate and 50% risk of brain damage.
We were aware of the risk to his hearing caused by gentamicin, but other wise the risk of brain damage hadn't really sunk in. Fortunately or is it an answer to many praying on his behalf he was seen by the children's specialist hospital at Great Ormond Street in London in April 2010. They confirmed the diagnosis on CMN but reckoned that from the way his CMN satellites had developed he had a very low risk or neurological involvement, in other words a cautious all clear.
This is great news, an answer to prayer, and also a tribute to the work of Great Ormond Street hospital. I need to praise them for their excellence, in spite of my regular protests in this blog about socialised medicine!
The hospital recently featured on BBC TV. A tribute to the hospital but it hghlighted 2 issues to me:
1) So many of the doctors interviewed seemed to be aged 55 - 75...who is training up the younger replacements?
2) The horror of brain damage in children. They showed a young girl a few months old who entered hospital as an apparently normal healthy active child. Parents were warned and accepted the risk of brain damage as she had a general anaesthetic to allow a probably fatal aneurysm to be removed. She suffered brain damage whilst under anaesthetic, and was returned to the tearful parents as an inactive blind child.
My grandson had similar risks, but as far as we can see has been spared such horrors. He smiles and coos, follows sights and sounds, so we expect his brain is undamaged, thank God.
We were aware of the risk to his hearing caused by gentamicin, but other wise the risk of brain damage hadn't really sunk in. Fortunately or is it an answer to many praying on his behalf he was seen by the children's specialist hospital at Great Ormond Street in London in April 2010. They confirmed the diagnosis on CMN but reckoned that from the way his CMN satellites had developed he had a very low risk or neurological involvement, in other words a cautious all clear.
This is great news, an answer to prayer, and also a tribute to the work of Great Ormond Street hospital. I need to praise them for their excellence, in spite of my regular protests in this blog about socialised medicine!
The hospital recently featured on BBC TV. A tribute to the hospital but it hghlighted 2 issues to me:
1) So many of the doctors interviewed seemed to be aged 55 - 75...who is training up the younger replacements?
2) The horror of brain damage in children. They showed a young girl a few months old who entered hospital as an apparently normal healthy active child. Parents were warned and accepted the risk of brain damage as she had a general anaesthetic to allow a probably fatal aneurysm to be removed. She suffered brain damage whilst under anaesthetic, and was returned to the tearful parents as an inactive blind child.
My grandson had similar risks, but as far as we can see has been spared such horrors. He smiles and coos, follows sights and sounds, so we expect his brain is undamaged, thank God.
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