Healthcare: cometh the hour… Hello friend, Day 17… (see2019- 45-to 53) Well, it took me over 20 hours but I finally submitted my NMC fitness to practise concern regarding Nurse X. I also submitted one regarding the 2 nurses who didn’t attend me during my asthma attack – they’re not all heroes, and that reflects
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Organ Donor: Why don’t you harvest me? Hello friend, Day 16… Quite some time ago (2018-45) I investigated the possibility of becoming an organ donor. The prison told me that prisoners cannot be organ donors – it’s a matter of ethics – whatever that means. Is it ethical to let someone die instead of allowing
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2020 – 30 – heart Heart: what a pain in the chest (groan) Hello friend, Day 15… (see 2019-69 + 70) The British Heart Foundation (BHF) responded to my question as to ‘stable angina not causing an increased mortality risk’ – they didn’t know where this cardiologist was coming from. Common sense tells you that
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Cervical Stenosis Hello friend, Day 14… Well, that didn’t take long – only 9 months to see the neurologist (!) coincidentally, about an hour before I was going to write this blog I had the letter from the hospital – Department of Neuroscience shoved under my door. Yes, about 2-3 weeks ago I was taken
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2020 – 28 – vitamin D Vitamin D: you wait 18 months for a bus… Hello friend, Day 13… (see 2020 – 09) I’m now on the maintenance dose. I cannot believe the difference it’s made – wow! I feel like I’ve got back my old zip – so much more energy… well, for a
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2020 27 – coronavirus Coronavirus: the good, the bad and the snuggly (!) Hello friend Day 12… The good: the canteen sheet is almost back to normal. Still no frozen or chilled but we can now buy bananas, tomatoes and a couple of other fruits. Showers are back to daily – for those that are
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2020 – 26 – cotton traders Cotton Traders:… eh,… Space Invaders?! Hello friend, Day 11… (see 2019 – 78) The Ombudsman upheld 2 out of 3 parts to my complaint. They say it was reasonable for HMP Wakefield to confiscate the Cotton Traders catalogue. The prison told them of their security concerns around paper being
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Hello friend, Day 10… A few weeks ago , the servery ran out of half of my lunch (beans). They rang the kitchen. The kitchen refused to send up another portion or an alternative. The kitchen blamed the servery for not cintrolling the portion size. The servery blamed the kitchen for not sending enough portions.
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TV: to entertain and to educate? Hello friend, Day 9… Quite some time ago I did a Freedom of Information request to find out which TV channels the other high-security prisons were allowing. Unsurprisingly, this prison’s TV channel provision was woeful in comparison. Plus, when I was at HMP Edinburgh in 2010, they had all
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2020 – 23 – media: Media: don’t get your pantaloons in a twist! Hello friend, Dy 8… A couple of weeks ago there was a small sidebar in one of the red tops about the Shakespeare workshops (2019 – 81). I wrote that I had “just started a Shakespeare workshop”. They turned that into I
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