{"id":7138,"date":"2016-11-03T22:22:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T22:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2016-11-03T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T22:23:52","slug":"thursday-3rd-november-2016-grrrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7138","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 3rd November 2016 &#8211; GRRRR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you&#8217;ve guessed it. It&#8217;s not good news.<\/p>\n<p>Last night was quite a disturbed night and I even sweated a great deal. Dunno whether it was concern about what today might bring me, but there we are. It was quite a struggle to leave the bed after the alarm went off and head off to breakfast, but there I was all the same. And by 07:30 I was out and on the road to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The morning was a misty, foggy cold morning and so I walked briskly up to the hospital. By 07:50 I was at the registration desk and by 08:00 I was in the waiting room.<\/p>\n<p>The wait was longer than it ought to have been but eventually I was seen and the blood pressure and blood samples were taken. and then I had another long wait until about 11:00 until the doctor saw me. He asked me all of the usual questions and I had the usual thorough examination, and then I had to wait again.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch was the usual soup and bread, which didn&#8217;t take me too long to wolf down; And then I had to wait again.<\/p>\n<p>The nephrologist saw me at 14:30. She said that the protein loss was slowly increasing, and they needed to make yet further tests. I had to go for another set of x-rays. And then I had to wait again.<\/p>\n<p>By 17:30 I was fed up of waiting and so I asked what was going on. It appears that some nurse had told the nephrologist that I&#8217;d gone home. And so nothing had happened. The nephrologist told me eventually that she wanted me to come back in on &#8230; errr &#8230; Wednesday next week. So not even a week before my next appointment. How I&#8217;m fed up with all of this.<\/p>\n<p>And my blood count? It&#8217;s down to 9.7. I&#8217;m pretty fed up of that as well.<\/p>\n<p>I was fed up of all of the waiting too, but at least I was able to do tons of stuff on the web pages that I&#8217;m writing.<\/p>\n<p>But it was far too late to do anything else so I booked a room at the Ibis Budget and went there via Caliburn to pick up some spare clothes. I had a good deal too at the Ibis.<\/p>\n<p>After a shower, a shave and a change of clothes, Alison turned up and we went to the <em>fritkot<\/em>, for a meal and a good chin-wag.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m having an early night. For I have a cunning plan in the morning. 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It&#8217;s not good news. Last night was quite a disturbed night and I even sweated a great deal. Dunno whether it was concern about what today might bring me, but there we are. It was quite a struggle to leave the bed after the alarm went off and head off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3375,162,4507,3173,1652,3371],"tags":[5920,1673,5222,5181,5381,2482,2560,5329,5911,206,5567,5918,7980],"class_list":["post-7138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alison-weihe","category-belgium","category-eric-hall-2","category-hospital","category-ibis-budget","category-leuven","tag-alison-weihe","tag-belgium-2","tag-blood-count","tag-blood-test","tag-caliburn","tag-early-start","tag-eric-hall","tag-fritkot","tag-hospital","tag-httpwww-erichall-eu","tag-ibis-budget","tag-leuven","tag-nephrologist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}