Long, curvy road ahead

As directed on Friday,  I revisited my GP., this time my regular doc. She again examined me and said she wanted me to go to a lung specialist for a double check. She wrote out the referral note. Chances of finding a specialist who will see me in next 3 months, very low, but said I would try.

Later that day had to go to an appointment in Central Memmto see a skin doctor who had conducted some allergy tests. Very long winded ad it's blood based and seemingly needs ages to be analysed. I've now for a few years been having weeping eyes from early spring to autumn. 

Anyway, part of the test had failed for some reason & needed to be redone. But other parts suggested light allergy to just about everything we have on our property,  whether plant or animal.

When finished, it occurred to me that there was a lung specialist literally 2 minutes away, who I had once visited good 10 years before. Thinking a personal visit may get me an appointment earlier than a phone call, I decided to go in.

Blow me down ... the receptionist listened to my story and said I should stay and she would somehow get me to be seen by the doctor and despite packed (10+ people) waiting room. 

It did take a while,  in the meantime blood was taken and an xray. When I saw the doctor, he did see a shadow that he thought ought to be looked at but didn't think it was serious. He wrote out a referral for a CT.

As there is a Radiology centre on the outskirts of town, I thought I might as well pop in to get an appointment,  something near to impossible by phoning. And luckily got one on 8th November. 

The luck & speed I had today, plus the concern of the young stand-in GP doc on Friday, was to turn out to probably have saved my life. And probably if it hadn't been for the concern of my host in the UK last week forcing me to go to the NHS, I wouldn't have been to any doctor, just fought off the infection with time.