frequent visitor award

went back to the gp surgery today, my inr and warfarin dosage had gone haywire whilst i was on the antibiotics, so i needed to do a new blood test and then on to see the gp to plan the next couple of weeks.

the surgery has only just moved from a rather cramped bungalow near the station in st austell to a brand new building about quarter of a mile from our home. i was a visitor there on their very first day of opening, and was back there again on the third day and the fourth day. in fact the one disappointment of being admitted to treliske on the friday was that i missed the opportunity to have been in the new surgery four days out of the first five, as i was unable to make my appointment that morning. had i made that appointment i was going to ask if there was some kind of award that i would be entitled to enter myself for, 'most frequent visitor' or similar. but then i realised that it might make me seem like a real hypochondriac so maybe i'll just let that one rest.

the new surgery also needed explaining to a few of the medical professionals during my hospital stay, some knew it was changing, others didn't.

after my visit today (it has now been open for two weeks) i can report that the building still looks shiny new, but the offices are beginning to look a bit more lived in - ie packing boxes have gone. the waiting rooms are a bit bare - no mass of posters advertising various help services/ clinics/ websites etc and one child was telling her mum how she might bring some of her old toys down, she obviously felt there weren't enough.

the upshot of my visit is that my inr/ warfarin dose still need to settle down (an appointment has been booked for a week's time) and i have been signed off work for a week - to start with. the gp was supposed to have used these new 'fit notes' that are being launched today - but she hadn't had a chance to talk with her colleagues about how to fill them in.