I called the best practise Nurse in the universe and she told me that I'm at 88 and they will book me for blood tomorrow. Except I'll be held up because the test I did yesterday, in order that the blood, if required , would be waiting for me, was done incorrectly! so that adds about two hours on to my wait time at the clinic tomorrow, because they have to wait till I get there then take blood and send it off for cross match and be tested and matched to the blood stocks so I get the best stuff.
The name of this testing facility shall not be named but their name is sort of like a operetta group in England. If the current government gets back in they are planning on making people pay for their own tests and if that happens a lot of us 'regular' users are going to have to cough up thousands and thousands of dollars in a year. The ONLY good in that is that the testing service that is fat and happy and slack will have to start dealing with patients like me who are going to be wanting better service.
Don't get me wrong the folks on the front line are for the most part real angels but the system needs a bit of competition I think. I want medicare to still pay but I want to sign off on the service getting the $
So its off to Brisbane at 5 am tomorrow. And with a second, but late, appt at the Nephrologists its going to be a long day.
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