Set back

Sorry Barry - so frustrating for you :-(

So sorry for you Barry. Reminds me of being sat crying in the PET scan waiting room in front of everybody after having travelled the day before and then told 1 hr before that it was cancelled. And on my wife’s 50th birthday.

Well I saw my GP yesterday and he fished a little stand alone clip incorporating a small screen from a drawer and placed it on each forefinger in turn. This must have taken less than 2 minutes. The reading was 98 in both cases. (Internet shows a healthy person should be between 94 and 99 and below 94 is cause for concern), so I have no problem with oxygen saturation levels! My GP asked me whether the low figure UCLH recorded at the pre op was taken using only one finger and thought that finding it low they would have tried another finger or reapplied it. He reckoned the clip had not been properly applied and gave a spurious result. So this led to my template biopsy being cancelled and a whole load of arrangements I had made being aborted. You would have thought that with all the hundreds of Doctors and Nurses at UCLH and bearing in mind I was to have been admitted to a ward, one of them could have put this portable little device on my finger to check if I arrived a little early as I suggested. But apparently the 'pathway coordinator' was unable to get a response from the Anaesthetist/Surgeon the day before or even on the day of the op! I was told that if I kept my rail tickets to London I will reimbursed for making another trip up from Devon but it's all the time and further arrangements this entails, yet alone having to defer planned dental work again and the delay will doubtless impact on when appropriate treatment. is eventually done. for my PCa.

I have to content myself with the thought that I don't have an oxygen saturation problem and that the less old car I was about to replace my 17 year old one with but which I had put on hold pending medical test, can now go ahead.