Too many waiting rooms

Firstly let me say we are mid way through all the tests and results for mum and her heart and blood pressure problems. But I am already sick to the back teeth of hospitals, doctors surgery's and everything else medical. In the last two days alone we have done 2 different hospitals and a doctors . Yet we have at least a week more of this and that is everything is pretty simple.

So far for next week I personally have one doctors and one dentist appointment and mum has a doctors, and that's just Monday and Tuesday covered. I know I will have at least one more dentist appointment to add to this as there is a hole in one tooth that I know of. But I am not complaining about the appointments it is the car parks and their sky high prices then the endless waits in rooms some of which I flinch at. We were in one room today that I wished I had taken a picture of as the only way I can describe it as something left over from the 40's war hospitals. Including the peeling paint and claustrophobic atmosphere.

What really eats at me is the cost of parking. I am a genuine blue badge holder but at all the places we went to there was on average 4 parking spaces allocated for blue badges per hospital. Meaning not only was I facing £2 per hour parking but also a hop that nearly killed me to get mum to where she was due to be. Hospitals are meant to be set up to care for the sick and ensure they are accessible to all. Yea well some one seriously needs to re think the hospital near me. I am sure they are set up in such a way it costs you a fortune to park an endless way away from where you need to be. You can be sure that the department that has been in the same place for the last 10 years has moved to somewhere obscure the one time you need to get in and out in a hurry. The most recent bug bear I have is the sudden appearance of Costa Coffee in hospitals. Pushing the league of friends profits down. I don't object to Subways in hospitals, mainly because at least we know I can eat something then. But Costa as well? That is just mean on the charity shop fighting to survive and provide the little extras for patients.

I have spent unfortunately too much of my life in and around hospitals, but I have to say in the last 5 years things have gone from being a little lax to absolutely dire.  In the times I have had operations I have things like coming round in a bed as they were spraying Pharaoh ants around me, to being unable to eat anything but the oj and toast for a week. But that was 20 years ago, now a days I would be terrified to go back in for a stay over night. Last time I was in it cost me £10 to get tv and internet, now that would be higher, plus the cost of me having to get food from Subway. Then there would be the fact that it would cost my family a bomb just to come up for an hour.

So whilst I am concerned about mums illness and hoping that she gets the treatment she needs, I am seriously praying she doesn't need anything needing a hospital stay as not only will it cost a fortune, she would probably come out of the hospital with something worse medically than she went in with.