Category: What To Expect When..
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Obviously, I got rejected again. I received the letter in the post dated exactly one month after my first letter, not the 12 weeks I was told it may take.
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One baby. One year and a half of discomfort. Two episiotomies.
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I am accused of being dishonest about needing help with medication and my finances, because I could communicate my medical history to the nurse on the phone.
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I was asked could I prepare food, which I can. I wasn’t asked if I could eat the food.
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The phrase ‘occupational health’ seems to send people running and there’s such a negative association with being ‘managed out’ of their employment.
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Amitriptyline is the medication I am asked about most often.
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I got a letter in the post explaining that I would need to prepare myself by drinking two litres of water one hour before the scan and a description of what would happen at part of the scan – a…
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During my journey to my diagnosis of acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR), I was called in for a fundus fluorescein angiography (which is easier if we just call it an FFA!) and an indocyanine green angiography (ICG) and it…
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It is absolutely impossible to focus your eyes for 30 seconds and to not blink. I don’t know anyone who can hold their eyes open and focus on some images for half a minute at a time!
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