Bureaucracy feels so conspiratorial when you’re vulnerable.
I’m sure my GP surgery has a Good Reason for only giving out blood tests results after 2.30pm. But I have a Good Reason for ringing at 1pm. I might be an hour and a half early but I’m also nearly two days late.
Even though the results are important to me my illness means I forget. So instead of chomping at the bit and ringing at 2.30pm on Friday when I was told they would be in my brain finally kicks in at 1pm Tuesday.
Do I in fact have a treatable condition? A condition with recognition and medical nod of respect?
I’ll have to wait another hour and a half to find out. If I’m well enough by then to manage to talk to a stranger on the phone. And if I remember of course.
Life is full of stuff.
Sometimes stuff makes me dizzy. Sometimes I'm dizzy just because I'm blonde. Sometimes it's because of my M.E.
And sometimes, even when I'm inspired - it still sounds dizzy :-)
Bureaucracy? I’ll Tell You After 2.30pm
1 05 2007Bureaucracy feels so conspiratorial when you’re vulnerable.
I’m sure my GP surgery has a Good Reason for only giving out blood tests results after 2.30pm. But I have a Good Reason for ringing at 1pm. I might be an hour and a half early but I’m also nearly two days late.
Even though the results are important to me my illness means I forget. So instead of chomping at the bit and ringing at 2.30pm on Friday when I was told they would be in my brain finally kicks in at 1pm Tuesday.
Do I in fact have a treatable condition? A condition with recognition and medical nod of respect?
I’ll have to wait another hour and a half to find out. If I’m well enough by then to manage to talk to a stranger on the phone. And if I remember of course.