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Monday, 5 February 2018

A CHAT WITH THE DOC BY FIONA CUMMINGS


 Good afternoon my dear Bloggets. Yet another different day for me so far. I have been talking with my wonderful GP. I love her to bits. Her and my dentist would be my perfect best friends. My dentist is a quiet caring loving Indian lady who obviously is very very intelligent and my Doctor is so much fun like a little sister. She is the first Doctor I have never been afraid of. But, today I am very confused as I wanted to know what the hospital said about my eyes. My first blood test I had almost  three or four years ago I went for blood tests to be put forward for a huge genetic test to form a gene pool for research? They lost my details so last year I went for blood number two. At this point I was thinking my eye Doctor/specialist was linked and perhaps he found out by doing gene testing, this information, he was related to, Count Dracula.

 Well I have never been to Romania…

  

My lovely GP read my letter from the hospital so at least they wrote to her and they told her I had Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa! I wanted to know if there are any numbers attached to these words? But there were no details in the letter. But in the meanwhile, she went onto Google… and confused me more by talking about leber Congenital Amaurosis! I am sure what she meant was there is a link as both diseases are from or can be from birth and both get worse and both are linked to the back of the eye/retina. But LCA, has totally different symptoms. People with LCA their eyes wobble and sink back into their sockets. I’m sure there is a much better way medically of describing this condition, but LCA isn’t what I have. I don’t have any of those symptoms so I think she was just saying there was a connection.. But I have asked for my letter and I will go for that tomorrow and read it or try to with my iPhone, which only reads every few words, so, who knows if that will be of help, if not I shall think of a different way to have it read. And see what happens next.

 

I shall let you know. But I also learned that I am due to go back to that big hospital next year. So, by then I am praying we will have made a huge step forward in finding treatment for RP and, all eye disease’s to be honest.

 

My Waggatail is great getting to the Doctors and back. But once in, she will walk me to reception but getting her back out? Oh, my, last time we ended up in the disabled toilet…

OK, so, I could act normal and tell her in front of everyone who were sitting waiting to be seen, watching us, that she was a good girl for finding the toilet, pretend to go and come out and find the door out again… but no, em, there was a lady still in there… thank goodness not actually on the loo, but just coming out and I found myself walking in her toilet before she had even dried her hands from washing them… I was mortified. In fact, my morti has never been so fied. And then Waggs took me to the next door, same wall, different door, couldn’t be worse right?

Well, not quite.

But it was the lift/elevator!

Oh, seriously, try again Fifi, there can’t be many doors left? Well the lady from the toilet, left the building. Through the door I needed, so like a persistent stalker, I followed her I was on a mission. Bless her cotton socks, I hope I didn’t scare her. hhaha.

 

Well off to do the doggy doodles now. no, it’s not my country dancing classes, but cleaning the dog run. Oh, the joys of being a dog owner…

 

 

 

 

 

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