Hi Tory, may I ask how you make it please? Iāve been to Grand Frais in Agen this morning and Iāve bought some galangal. Tried a bit - I find it quite lemony and OH finds it very peppery. Iād thought about putting it in our smoothie instead of the ginger, but I wonder if it will be too strident.
Also GF recommend keeping it in a fridge - really? We certainly donāt bother to do that with either our ginger or our turmeric.
Any recipe suggestions for it gratefully received.
I wish both the doctors who misdiagnosed my breast cancer had been sacked.
Unfortunately, one went on to become senior partner and the other still works there.
I did write to them recently because all of this talk of early diagnosis is very upsetting when you have done the right thing and been denied what could be a life saving diagnosis.
Weāve all had a dose of the 'nots n spluttes duringou lives
Some lasted a day or two, i had a stinker that started Jan 6th 2020ā¦ Sniffs that became a flood, week later coughing so much i thought i had bust a rib, then i was floored for 4 days [even moh coudnāt believe i was downed}ā¦7 weeks later and was back to normalā¦
She caught it 2nd week of my having it, and she was just as badā¦
Then C19 was game on
Why did this ācoldā get me so badā¦ and 10yrs previously, vey similar?
What time scale would anyone know how seriously and how long any infection will take hold and then decay?
To say an injection āWillā have and make any difference is impossible for each and every individual?
I hope itās at least another 10+ yrs before i have another infection like itā¦ wonāt be funny at 80
Itās a week since you posted, Hope you are now back to good health
Patient saw eight GPs before cancer spotted
I get the impression a lot of these doctors are afraid of their own shadows nowadays about being sued etc. I thank god I live here and worry for my family in the UK who have been fobbed off disgustingly in the past few years by medical professionals.
If my relatively brief experience of the NHS was anything to go by, I can certainly vouch for the chaos. Visiting everyday Iād see different doctors and nurses and all with their particular ways - it was like a merry go round. And the quality of the nurses, well, I really couldnāt believe they were all doing the same job actually. I would say there were a handful of the nurses that Iād truly refer to as nurses. The majority appeared to be almost factory workers imported from various locations around the world, and were clearly there to just get the hours in and get paid - a great many were employed by an agency. And the doctors, well, Iām not medically qualified in any way, but it was so very simple to throw questions at them that had them pondering for an answer, and many times there was no real answer just a āfob offā response. I think I could almost write a book on my very limited recent experience. I would really not like to be in a hospital at the mercy of the NHS. Fortunately I havenāt been able to experience the level of care in a French hospital, but it surely could not be any worse.
I get the impression from reading posts on SF that the French system puts a lot of onus on the patient - keeping your own dossier, carrying copies of scans, making your own appointments for investigations all seem to have been mentioned.
Would the French system have joind the dots any better for this patient who was clearly not capable of doing it himself?
From my dealings with them I would have a lot more faith them than I would in the UK.
Yes, the French system does put a lot more responsibility on the individual to take a more active role in thier own health than in the U.K. That responsibility though doesnāt extend to self diagnosis. Diagnosis is entirely the purview of the M.T. . Also, I know that doctors will offer to make appointments etc for patients that may have difficulty doing so themselves if needed. Our M.T. offered to help the OH after we first moved here when she was unfamiliar with the system. After some pointers in the right direction, she was able to handle it herself.
Weāve been seeing patient-led health care here for some time, and itās not great TBH. Mostly patients simply donāt have the resources, let alone the experience to make decisions about potentially life-changing treatment. Choices often have to be made quickly in front of the medic at the consultation, and itās really not helpful. Having a wife whoās been undergoing treatment for glaucoma for almost a decade, Iāve seen how almost unbelievably unhelpful it can be.
Yes and getting all the facts upon which to make decisions can prove difficult. I think that medics, understandably I suppose, donāt like giving the downside details.
How are you both getting on now John, are you all radio4rd out by now 
Thanks for asking 
Herself is bouncing around like a two year old, back at the gym and everything. Iām over Covid (the antivirals were tough on the tummy but knocked the virus on the head) but still with a lingering chest infection. The misty and rainy weather isnāt helping. So Iām working my way through this selection of movies I picked up secondhand on Amazon UK
Iāve seen a few of them before but this article rekindled my interest in them.
Not sure if itās covid or an early flu but managed to get something a couple of days ago and then in conversation with a friend over the phone I mentioned that Iād lost my sense of taste and smell and they reckoned it could be covid. Regardless, to make sure I donāt spread what I have Iāll be hunkering down for the next days until it clears. A bit of a pain as plenty to do, but hopefully thatāll be it for Winter 
They have been ok about that, but knowing likelihood of problems and understanding the possible severity of complications is more difficult.
Which, of course, are more difficult to predict. I like things to be black and white and to be able to use logic to predict likely outcomes. The old human body and illnesses often donāt lend themselves to such clinical analysis.
The Red Shoes - very good! Is that your favourite out of the bunch (so far?)
I need to schedule my wife to watch that one with me Just slipped Colonel Blimp into the DVD player , I didnāt rememeber it being in colour. Enjoyed a Canterbury Tale yesterday.
Ps I enjoyed your tale of house auctions you told yesterday - āstick to your gunsā - ha, if only I could do that buying eurosā¦
Thatās really not how it works in France in our experience, and seems a bit over the top. We donāt take responsibility for choosing treatments, thatās the doctors job. When the OH needed a knee replacement, she chose which consultant surgeon to go to at which hospital and arranged all the various appointments required through to surgery. She also arranged the post surgery rehab in a clinic. Thatās the sort of thing thatās expected in France.
