Word of the day "Schwannoma" - Or, When Incompetence Knows No Bounds...

At long last I received a letter from the ENT specialist inviting me to take an MRI scan, because of the mystery of my sudden deafness & hearing loss - Something that took over 6 months to develop, while I was asking the doctor for help (something that I thought happened because of a cold and an ear infection) - But according to the genius ENT expert, it might be a brain tumour, so we better not listen to the patient, and do an MRI scan instead...

So instead of admitting their mistake and that they were wrong with the initial diagnosis, they decided to compound the incompetence by sending me for an MRI scan...

And while they are busy misdiagnosing patients, I'm losing my hearing in the other ear. Long live stupidity, and may god help us all..

Today I went to see my doctor, who thought that the whole episode is a BIG FARCE (and so did I), but guess what, because I went to see the ENT specialist, I have to carry on with the "Flying Circus" till the bitter end. The specialist's prognosis, is that I might have a Schwannoma which an MRI could reveal...

It does not matter what you tell people or what you think - the machine seem to be hell-bent on turning and regardless of what you say, you'll just have to turn with those HUGE COGS...  Everybody is working-to-rule, using the obligatory form filling dogma, checking and ticking every conceivable box & outcome, regardless of how improbable, wasting £1000's in the process, and reaching the obvious conclusion..  Sadly and as long as we have this "Paint By Numbers" approach to health, nothing will ever change...

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The doctor said, but, if I did have a Schwannoma, then we would both eat our words - I said no, because if I have one, then I promise to come back and eat my shoes.

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And as they say, every cloud has a Silver lining, because before today, I only knew 4 words beginning with "SH" - Shake & Vac, Shit, Shawarma (both Chicken & Lamb varieties) & Shania Twain... And now, I know    5...

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These are the comments I left on the previous post...

4 comments:

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   M T H20 May 2013 14:10

   Today I visited my doctor and told him what I thought about the ENT "specialist", and how I thought that he was incompetent and that I had no confidence in his diagnosis, for the simple reason that my ear was still infected and is leaky, so the hearing test would carry no weight and is inconsequential...
   
   And after a brief examination, he agreed with me and set about complaining to the "specialist".

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   M T H28 May 2013 12:55

   What really pisses off is that, I had 3 people examining my ears, for hours, and making a mould of my inner ear and yet none of them even noticed the gunk coming out of my ears.

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   M T H31 May 2013 20:31

   The third person to see me, the one who took the impression (mould) of my inner ear was showing me the results on a PC screen, and this happen to show the word "disability", and the woman was trying her best to be as "Politically Correct" as possible and telling me that, I shouldn't look at it like that, and that it should say ABILITY and not the other way round....
   
   BTW, My physical disability was at around 60%, but how it effected me was more like a 70% level...

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   M T H31 May 2013 20:34

   I still haven't heard from my Doctor... I'm going see him and to complain again (on Monday), and demand some strong antibiotics, something like Augmentin 625, coupled with a good ear cleaning, and no BULLSHIT..

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