Well she phoned [cough] my own GP phoned me up and said, “You must come back.” There was an abnormal blood test and she didn't know what it was, whether it was to do with rheumatol, rheumatology or not. So I had to go and have an endoscopy. And a colonoscopy all on the same day. And for the colonoscopy you had to take this terrible medicine the day before and be by a toilet [laughs] all day.
So I still did the child minding and it completely washes you out. And so, you've got absolutely nothing in your bowel, what, whatsoever. And and then I went to hospital the next day and, having had nothing to eat and they give you Pethadin so you don't really feel it and because I was having both ends, they give you more of it. So I didn't feel anything. So they looked down the throat and up my other end and that's the only time I was aware, I could feel this stuff poking about.
It took about half an hour and there was absolutely nothing, they couldn't find one thing wrong with me. So they put it down to anaemia, because of the arthritis. Which though it didn't, it proved that there was nothing wrong inside it meant it was, when they gave me tablets and an anti-inflammatory actually, they work don't they badly on your stomach if you're that susceptible for indigestion or ulcers, I remember so, when they gave me anti-inflammatory they knew that wouldn't be enough, effect and it meant when they gave me the sulfasalazine they knew that one side effect I wouldn't have would be anything wrong with my stomach. And as I never suffer from indigestion either, that was all right.
And how quickly did they organise that?
Really quickly. I'm, I'm sure I said, “I'm going on holiday in 3 weeks,” and they said, “We want to do it before you go.” Because they were worried, so worried about the blood count. So I had it in two weeks which, you know, NHS that's pretty good going, isn't it? |
