Monday morning I woke up and from that moment on I knew I was going to have a crap day along with what appeared to be everyone else in Belfast, ok I woke up at about 7.30 and lay on for another hour or so, but was in a pretty poor mood, finally built up the motivation to get out of bed and go and get breakfast. But all the morning and some of the afternoon was spent killing time, waiting to go to the GP to see my doctor and explain to him why I am leaving. I didn't rush to get there on time and turned up at half two, when the appointment was for and they said "oh your doctor isn't in today...", this certainly did not help with my mood.
Didn't have to wait long before I was called in to see... a nurse, a nurse was taking my review and before we started I said I wanted to talk about something else and listed off all the ridiculous things that had happened over the last month alone and said about speaking to the Practice Manager, which I said I would like to do. So after she took my blood pressure and weight, asked a few silly questions she went to have a word with the Practice Manager and said that it was ok to go in and speak with her.
After each of the things I had brought up with the Practice Manager she was giving absolutely ridiculous excuses for every single one of them pawning it off so that it was other people that where causing the problems and not them. It would have made me feel a lot better if she had admitted that they were the cause of it but just listening to the absolute shite coming out of her mouth, pissed me off even more and lost interest in what she was spewing. Towards the end she finally admitted that one of the things (the being told to come back later and being sent home) should not have happened and she said she would "have a word with the girls about that". Too little, too late.
At the end she said "if you're unhappy with the practice you are more than welcome to move at any time", "that's exactly what I am going to do and I hope that it's just me and not other people as well that are getting pissed around" and then I left, so apparently they will have a summary letter ready for me for tomorrow to take to the new GP.
E=MC Hammer
I was quite riled up after this and decided to go for a walk to settle down, but there were loads of school kids around with the time of the day so couldn't relax as much as I had maybe wanted to, but it was still a nice walk. By the time I got home I had thought about going to the quiz tonight and my friend is going in for heart surgery tomorrow, to be operated on Wednesday, so would be nice to see him one last time out and about for a bit. Turns out that it was a communication error and they're getting in contact tomorrow to find out what is happening. There wasn't many people about that night but three of us ended up going to the quiz and we done pretty good for only having three in the team. We ended up coming 4th, with 45 point, 3rd had 46 and first had 50, so we were not too far behind. The other teams all had about 6-8 people in each of them so we were disappointed but pleased with the outcome.
In the end of the day, Monday wasn't that bad in the end, highs and lows, more lows than highs but screw them, nothing I can do about that now...
Tuesday certainly started off a lot better, got a couple of things in the post, a few things I had ordered, one of which was my new OVIVO sim so I now have that in my calculator phone. Today I was killing time before going down to the GP again to pick up the summary letter but at least I was in a much better mood this time, knowing it was coming to an end. Thankfully the letter was ready, wouldn't have surprised me one bit if it wasn't and after I picked that up I went straight to the new place, and had to fill in a form to see if the doctor would accept me, so will hear back in the next couple of days from there. When I got home I was just passing the time and looking for stuff to do in the evening when on LoveFilm I came across Stargate SG-1 and all 10 series are all on that!!! I will be kept busy for a while now.
That night though, I thought I'd catch up with a friend that I hadn't seen in a while, so I sent her a text to see if she would like to go out for a walk, so we met and had a good chat, not seen each other in months and she got engaged during her holiday about a month ago. Was great catching up with her, although she has some bad news about her mum. Hopefully everything will be ok.
Wednesday... nothing much happened in the morning apart from getting a call from the new GP saying that I had been accepted, so in the afternoon I went over to get the registration papers and an appointment booked. While I was there I bumped into my A-Level Biology teacher, he recognised me and remembered my name and he's still working over in my old school. He was a bit shocked to find out that I was a teacher and even more shocked to find out that I had been teaching for six years, or I just made him feel old. When I got home there was a funeral leaving from a couple doors down from the house, I had been speaking to the dad about it only about a week ago, but it's still sad to see even if it is expected and for the best.
Didn't quite fancy sitting around for the rest of the day and I've got into a bad habit of smoking again, but I knew it was only a matter of time before this would happen. So I walked into town, for no real reason other than to go there and then discovered that it might be a good idea to go into work as I haven't been there in over a month to let them know what is happening and to get my pay slip, went round a couple shops and was going to walk home but after all the walking I've been doing lately my feet and legs where getting way way way too sore for me to even cope with so decided to get the bus home and went for a bit of a sleep.
Later that night after all the family had left, I had got a call earlier about heading round to Jamie's, so I got a few tins and popped round there that night. It had been a few weeks since I'd seen them, when I'd normally see them every few days or so. Got home and sat on the computer for a while and then off to bed.
Thursday I had planned to have a lazy day, but it wasn't until early afternoon that i realised that I had ordered something in Argos I had to pick up and was after a few other things too, but on the way down my brother and Jillian where joking about spiders so I came up with a really bad idea of a prank... but I wasn't sure if I would go through with it or not. Went down to consy and got what I had to get and seen a toy spider... I couldn't help myself, so I bought it and went home. I was trying to do stuff on the computer but it turned out that it wasn't working properly so had to give up on that. Looked at the spider and thought "let's go for it" got a bit of string and blu-tac, went round to the house and put it through the letter box and stuck it on so it dangled down. It was one of those "hehehe... oh shit what have I done...". Got home and watched a few episodes of Stargate and a bit of a nap. Not certain how the spider thing has been taken but I think I am basically dead...
Later after dinner I got a text from the friend I went out for a walk with asking if I was going for another one tonight, I hadn't planned to, but I quite liked it the other night so I said I'd go. But things seem to be a lot worse for her mum than initially thought and she was quite upset, but the walk seemed to take her mind off it a little, for a while at least, but it's very upsetting seeing your friends in such a way and my thoughts go out to her and her family. Also got in touch with Tim who is going in for the open heart surgery that had the "communication error" and he found out that he has to go in on Sunday and gets operated on Monday, I hope everything goes well for him as well and he's back on his feet in no time, at least he can join me for walks when he's feeling up to it!!
Generally this week so far has been... a rollercoaster, some high highs, some low lows and I would say now is a low thinking of all the bad things for me and my friends that are happening, but we'll get through it and we're all there for each other.