Wednesday August 3 NHS!
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| A "local" at the Barley Mow |
Ian bought some car wax so spent the morning working on
giving Ruakiwi a polish.
I have been having respiratory issues especially over the
past 5 days so finally decided that I couldn’t let nature take it’s course any
longer and needed to go and have it checked out.
The Yellow Pages arrived at the barn last week, so
flicked through to the Doctors section and saw a clinic not too far from here,
so thought that was a good place to start.
Popped in about 2pm and they were very helpful and
suggested that I go to the A&E at the local Skegness Hospital, as they
weren’t sure when I could get an appointment with their clinic.
So onto the small hospital and they were very helpful,
filled in some forms and waited. It certainly was a slice of life watching the
comings and goings in the waiting room, seemed like the majority of the people
were on their annual holidays at the beach. Only had an hours wait before I saw
the Doctor, who sent me off to for a chest xray, then a short wait while it was
read. All clear, so he prescribed me an inhaler and a short 5-day course of
steroids to help reduce the inflammation in my bronchial tubes, have never ever
had to use anything like this before. A trip to the pharmacy to fill the
prescription and back home three hours later. Have to say I am very impressed
with the NHS and how quickly I was dealt with, and as we have a reciprocal
agreement with UK there was no charge at the hospital, and no charge at the
pharmacy as I am a senior citizen!!! Got to be good.
So pleased to get some treatment underway and should be
firing on all cylinders before we hit the road. We had arranged to meet Steve
and Kathy for a meal at The Barley Mow, a very nice pub between here and Boston,
pleased that we didn’t have to cancel. Such a nice place out in the country and
the food was really good.
There was still a bit of daylight when we finished so
Steve took us for a drive down the side road towards the coast. This originally
was all salt marsh but has been drained progressively over the centuries
starting with the Romans, and now the rich silty soil is all cropped. The area
has been used by RAF as a bombing range and the Control Tower beside the road was
in use until 2010. A very fascinating area.
We are noticing how the days are getting shorter, it was
still daylight at 10 when we arrived but it is now dark soon after 9.
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| The old control tower |
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| A view out to The Wash |
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