A little bit since my last post, but things have been moving along a lot faster than expected.

I thought I’d write about my questioning of my diagnosis of Asthma. Basically, I have always been led to believe by doctors that I have had Asthma since I was born, simply based on a wheeze that I had. Now, it goes without saying that I have started to question the diagnosis.

Well, things have gone, depending on whose viewpoint you take, from bad to worse. I contacted the Patient Advice & Liaison Service of Southend General Hospital on Friday, with the purposes on checking up on my notes from the time up was under the pediatrics department of the hospital, as well as the times I have been admitted to A&E, and actually putting in a formal request to see them. I now know that, contrary to my earlier belief, my notes haven’t been destroyed. This in itself is good, as not only is there a lot of information regarding the Asthma in there, but other tests that I’ve had done which it is good to know that the results are still available.

However, yesterday, the nice lady from the PALS advised me to write to the Deputy Chief Executive of the Hospital to formally begin an investigation into the doctors and their decisions over the time I was in their care. To say the least, it shows how serious this is - that there is a considerable amount of doubt of the diagnosis, and the fact that a differential diagnosis was not pursued is a serious lapse of medical judgment. I’ve drafted a letter, but I’ll wait and see what people think of it, and redraft according to the advice I receive. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out.

Fingers crossed over this whole affair…

Right, this is the first of what I hope to be a semi-random set of musings on various topics, generally surrounding life, the universe, & everything. Plan is to take something from music, films, books, etc., and write about how it applies to a currently 24 year old man with Asperger’s Syndrome. Now that’s out of the way… Read the rest of this entry »

…please hold.

Gaah! If I hear that phrase on more time I’m going to go insane. Now that I’ve got round to getting my JSA claim in, I was attempting to get a Crisis Loan to tide me over, at least while the claim was being processed. After all, whilst they may say that it should take a couple of weeks, all of my experiences so far show that it’s more likely to take in the region of a month.

Anyway, my point is this. It’s not the best situation where there are so many people phoning up so that anew caller has to, after getting past the poorly thought out, poorly announced menu, wait around 20 minutes to talk to a human in order to get funds that they need, then maybe they should employ more people to speed things up. At the very least, it should improve the mental health of those on benefits - after all, then they won’t have to hear “All our operators are busy, please hold.”

Right, everything seems to be in order (at least as good as can be expected).

Anyhow, I went to my friend, Charlee’s, birthday party over the weekend. I had a really nice time and it was great to see people again who I hadn’t seen in a while.

However, since that weekend, I’ve realised that I’ve got another crush on someone. Judging by my previous cases of bad judgement, it’s not left me in the best of moods - cue lot’s of me saying “stupid Edward”, and you get the general idea of what I feel like. This has left me feeling like I want to flee to the hills just to get away from it, although I’ve yet to work out how to get my painting equipment lashed to the back of my bike, so there’s something I need to get my head around.

After all, heaven forbid that I actually ask the guy out…

Right, I’ve now set about setting up just a simple blog this time, with the hope that it will be easier for me to look after. This should also mean that I’m more likely to actually update it rather than just let it sit, unloved. Anyhow, I’m going to see if I can get a basic theme sorted out this afternoon, so that I can just write about the last few days.