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 Just over a week ago, Saturday 20th September 2008 I started to get a sore throat and then Sunday I felt real bad but I just put it down to the ‘Man Flu’. Monday I was struggling to breath so the wife called our doctors for an appointment to which they advised the earliest would be Tuesday (next day). I was getting worse so later she called the the NHS Direct Link - http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk they advised her to try and speak with our doctor first and so she did, they then bumped the appointment to 5pm that day.

We go down and see the doctor, he sees I’m struggling to breath, diagnoses me with tonsillitis and gives me a prescription for mouth wash and pain killers. He saw my throat closing over and said come back in a week if it’s no better.

It gets to Wednesday and I can hardly move or breath, I’d not eaten since Saturday and drank very little. I’d had plenty of sleep on and off up to that point but couldn’t sleep no more. The wife returned home from work and called NHS Direct, they then sent out an ambulance.

On the way to the hospital the paramedic was saying they would most likely not do anything for my tonsillitis and that he gets it every 6 months and can’t have them surgically removed, the NHS doesn’t like doing it any more.

We get to Doncaster Royal Infirmary and I’m now being assessed by the doctor he informs me it’s Quinsy and the side show starts with doctors coming for a quick peak in my mouth, apparently Quinsy isn’t all that common and my case was real bad. The doctor informs me I’m in for the night.

So we get to the ward and the next doctor is ready to see me, we get into a private room and he sprays some stuff in my mouth, gives me a local and then pops another needle in my mouth to take some of the puss out of one of the abscesses………………………………. Relief, I can breath again.

They then pop me on a series Intravenous Drip’s and other drugs, the next morning I’m feeling well but by the afternoon my throat is closing over again so they decide to keep me in another night.

Friday I feel good again and they decide to release me with a bag of medication. It’s now Tuesday, just over a week from when I saw my GP and I’m just about feeling on top of things again, but what If I’d of waited a week like my GP wanted to, well apparently if not treated quick enough Quinsy can be fatal.

So if I hadn’t gone to hospital would our GP have killed me, he knew I was struggling to breath, he could see my throat was closing and he knew I hadn’t eaten or drunk that much since the previous Saturday And yes Quinsy can be fatal, the infection is much worse than that of tonsillitis.

It’s not very often I say this but Doncaster Royal Infirmary were amazing, they looked after me and did a real good job but the other face of the NHS, our GP, our Surgery failed our family again.

Without drawing this blog out to much the last two times our GP’s messed up (if you ain’t already read this before)My father had a recurring chest infection for 3 years and the doctor just kept giving him antibiotics rather than a chest scan. They diagnosed my father with Asthma  but Doncaster Royal Infirmary corrected that because it was severe Pneumonia, they then found Cancer. Later they gave him some medication, the pharmacist wouldn’t give it him because he realised that the new medication mixed with his other medication would of killed him on the spot, it’s a shame the GP didn’t realise this first.

I’ll most likely submit a complaint about our local surgery and the GP in question

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

0845 4647 - NHS Direct (Yes the number is that short)

Information on Quinsy

Really strange today, I came across an old friend on the internet and was thinking about my dad as well and for some reason I got to thinking about Seamus Heaney and two poems came to mind. I can’t remember one of them totally and couldn’t find it but the other one was Mid-term Break. Really not sure of the relevance, perhaps a subconscious memory.

Mid-term Break

I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close,
At two o’clock our neighbors drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying–
He had always taken funerals in his stride–
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were “sorry for my trouble,”
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o’clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on the left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in a cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

Seamus Heaney

Google Chrome promises to be the next evolution of web browsers for the internet, they claim to run multi processor tab browsing with a good balance of “simplicity meets complexity”, in other words they want some cool features in there but they don’t want to bulk it out and slow it down.

Google loves to try and lead the way, but they actually piss me off sometimes, recently they reduced the PR of a popular site we run to 0 and won’t tell us why it was dropped so dramatically making it impossible to correct any issues to reinstate the high page rank.

Anyway that’s sour grapes.

If Google can deliver what they promise it will mean an end to webpages crashing whilst running some java script and forcing you to restart your whole browser because nothing works. Well the pages might still crash but the browser shouldn’t.

If you interested in learning more about Googles new browser you can visit their comic book presentation:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Googe Chrome is open source so anyone can develop for it, and for themselves which is very cool.

Will it just be yet another browser on the market?

I’m not sure, I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see how it preforms and what it actually does feature wise.

NOTE: This beta version has two serious bugs which could leave your computer vulnerable!