As one of the world's biggest softies and most squeamish people I've got a lot to think about after visiting the hip specialist Mr Ali at the local hospital this morning. The only way to cure me of the pain that I've been experiencing is to have a hip replacement but as I'm only 55 there's little chance of it lasting the rest of my life. It sounds like major surgery and I'm not keen on the possible problems that he told me about however minor the risk. I think I'll just struggle on for a little while and see how I get on.
My trip to the local hospital provided good examples of both the worst and the best of the NHS. The consultant was excellent and the waiting room fine. I was given an X-Ray and this was shown to me about thirty minutes later and my options were explained. That was the good. However, on the bad side, I arrived at 9.15 for the appointment to be told that they had no record of it(despite my printed confirmation) and "this sometimes happens with NHS patients" accompanied by a look down the nose (the NHS had sub-contracted my case to a BUPA establishment). On the positive side they fitted me in an hour later but back on the negative I went home at lunchtime and found a letter telling me that the appointment had been rescheduled for September. Brilliant. You POST a letter about an appointment at 9.15 the following morning. Stupid or what?
We are only a couple of hours away from our financial year end and our accountant is busily checking the stock take. I am delighted that it looks like we have ended the year with sales turnover around 0.6% up on last year. I know it's not a lot but remember there has been a recession going on out there so I would like to give all those in sales a pat on the back. Thanks Nick and thanks Peter.
Due to the hospital I'm short of time for blogging today but I'll leave you with some interesting stats on the social media revolution.
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