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I have my next physio appointment in 4 days. My left side is flaring up as usual, inflamed achilles, painful plantar fasciitis, swollen knee and various other issues. What is infuriatingly stupid is that the physios only allow you to be treated for one issue per appointment. They won't treat me holistically by seeing this as one issue - which it is, the issue is my left side is weak from the stroke. They insist on seeing every body part as a separate issue and only treating one per appointment. And it can take weeks or months to actually get an appointment. So I'm in this stupid position where I'll have a physio appointment for my inflamed achilles on the 14th and then have to wait until 19th May for my next appointment for them to see about the plantar fasciitis, unless my achilles is still very bad by then in which case I'll have to use the appointment on the 19th for my achilles again and just screw the fasciitis and the knee and whatever else is a problem at that time.
Actually you would think that after someone has had a stroke the NHS would provide them with a properly planned out programme of physiotherapy for rehabilitation, starting right away and with regular appointments. But no. Instead you have to battle for whatever scraps of appointments you can get with no clear plan and sometimes months between appointments.
Is it any wonder that so many people are permanently disabled in the UK?
Oh and I seem to have a UTI again, can't get a doctors appointment, the pharmacist can prescribe antibiotics but I've become allergic to antibiotics. The GP surgery won't even accept a urine sample to send off without having a doctors appointment first. Why does everything have to be done in such a stupid and difficult way?
It's hard not to see it as being designed to make it as drawn-out and time consuming as possible. And it doubly sucks that you can't get proper treatment all at once considering it's the same damn office.
I am really starting to think it's all by design, I mean there's been a lot of stuff in the news about how American companies are paying British politicians to destroy the NHS so that everyone in the UK ends up having to get private healthcare, then the yanks can swoop in with their private healthcare companies and make a fortune. Nigel Farage is meant to be very much in favour of this.