Inclusive

[johnbarry]

UK Caravan Holiday

Cost and Payment Details
Accommodation £
Inclusive Holiday Protection (HHP)
Free Use Of Entertainment & Facilities
Inclusive Bed Linen

Does inclusive mean bed linen is included and we don’t need to take any.

Cheers
John

[Bob Williams]

Yes John: but check that insrance covers your health problems. It will be basic. Where are you off to?

I can give you the name of a good specialist Health Travel company, have to find their card. A few phone questions, they give you a quote.

Doesn’t mention towels btw. I’m offline now until tomorrow: very tired.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[johnbarry]

Thanks Bob, well spotted I didn’t think Towels towels.

It’s just a quick break from her Chemo, in Somerset. She just had a bad dose of Chemo (Tech, I think it’s called) her 4th dose. She started injections (12 month) to fit radio therapy in between, then tablets for life.

Glad to see you’re on the mend, I know about very tired, she’s not sleeping regular.

Bob get plenty of rest.

Cheers
John

[Dave Rice]

If it’s St Audries Bay that’s where Jason used to go, he always had a good time.

I used to fish all along that coast. There are some beaches, St. Audries is one (red sand) but it’s mostly rocky reefs. Great for fishing at low tide (conger, rays and cod) but a slippery walk out. Blue Anchor is another huge beach with a caravan park. Not been in the Smugglers Inn for years. The West Somerset Railway is always worth a trip (longest heritage line in the country).

If you’re inland it’s all beautiful countryside and lovely pubs. I’m sure you’ll have a good time wherever you go ?

[johnbarry]

Thanks Dave it’s Burnham-on-Sea Holiday Village, have car could possibly visit St Audries Bay and Blue Anchor.

We often travel around our destination, window shopping in the Town’s.

Sadly it forcasts light rain while we’re there, maybe no sunbathing on the beach.

As you say, we’ll have a good time.

Thanks for the pointers.

Cheers
John

[Dave Rice]

I always forget Burnham is now classed as Somerset. Well there’s a beach and a half there!

You’ve got Weston-Super-Mare, Cheddar Gorge and Gough’s Cave just up the road and if she wants some retail therapy there’s Clarkes Village at Street https://clarksvillage.co.uk/ which is a day out in itself. Glastonbury Tor is just down the road from there.

Then there’s Wookey Hole and Wells Cathedral, the Somerset levels for a bit of nature and the Mendips for scenery and good county pubs everywhere.

[johnbarry]

Thanks Dave I will print your post with the route from caravan to clarks.

Lots to see

Cheers
John

[Ed P]

If you go to Street hide SWMBO’s credit card. Too many factory store ‘bargain’ temptations!

[Richard]

As others have said there are many good places to visit so something for every taste. The park should have some brochures with not always wonderful maps of local and not quite so local places to visit, so do make your own printouts or, if possible help your wife to use Google maps for a live map that can show any problems.  My wife found it surprisingly easy to find the way when bypassing a road blockage on the way to one of many recent hospital visits. I trust you will have a pleasant break and that your wife stabilises with a rest.

If your wife has any difficulty walking and getting tired do NOT be tempted to drive down on to the beach, the beach loves cars and tends to EAT them.

We find out this afternoon what is possible with my wife; though an appointment at 09:00 on Wednesday with oncology suggests she may be about to start on a similar pathway to yours.

At least I am on an easier pathway, a cut, stick and forget skin cancer. I can see May is going to be a busy month for us.

I wish the two of you well, whatever the weather have a great time and above all relax and enjoy the sights sounds and air. There is usually a shop on site for any forgotten essentials or a trip into town will furnish anything like soap, toothpaste or whatever.

[johnbarry]

Thanks Ed, yes she loves a bargain.

Thanks Richard, she’ll be taking her Tablet so we can check things out.

She has started to stabalise and the break should help. She gets one free week per month. An appointment with the oncology (before every chemo) has been put forward slightly. After every Chemo she takes so many sick tabs, then stomach injections, anti biotics, steroids, she was saying that week will be free of tablets. She has her picc line flushed today (every 7-10 days) she hoping to arrange one next week the day we go.

It’s a plan and hope it works.

We were gonna get essentials but I checked online, there is a tesco not far, we can get it all when we are there.

Everything should go ok for your wife, it’s a long treck but at least we have the choice. We’re not far off having our own parking spot at the hospital.

All the best to you and yours.

Cheers
John

[Richard]

Thank you John, so far we are not just going to 1 hospital, between the two of us we used 5 different hospitals this month alone. I add a sixth, a new one this time, next month a fifty five mile round trip I need to get there early to be sure of finding a parking spot in time for my minor operation.

With my wife it is a bit easier, at a push I can drop her off and roam round to find a parking spot or in one case go to a local car park.

Get away and have a really good time, you sound as though you will, whatever the weather.

All the very best Richard

[johnbarry]

Gordon Bennett (oopps it Richard) 55 that’s a long way. I/we tend to do 2 Hospitals the second is about 2 mile further.

Yes parking is a nightmare, I tend to go early if it’s afternoon appointment we’ve had it (visiting cars) I do the same drop her off and sit down the road, when done she texts me.

It will be nice to get away from it all, all the best with minor op.

Cheers
John

[Bob Williams]

Thanks John, you two have a good and peaceful time of it, with a successful conclusion to your missus’ problems.

Richard I wish the same for you and yours.

Today I discovered that Castle Hill hospital Admin has not passed on my consultant’s letter to my GP. That has all the details of various blood tests and vaccinations that I am due in 2 days and 4 weeks, respectively. So Richard, I can empathise with trying to get more than one Health Trust to connect the dots. My GP was very angry when I phoned him and he discovered this: fortunately my consultant had given me a copy of the letter, which I was able to photocopy and send up to our surgery, courtesy of the world’s best neighbour.

I am simply too exhausted to be angry, turns out I am also now anaemic.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Richard]

Bob Williams wrote:

Today I discovered that Castle Hill hospital Admin has not passed on my consultant’s letter to my GP. That has all the details of various blood tests and vaccinations that I am due in 2 days and 4 weeks, respectively. So Richard, I can empathise with trying to get more than one Health Trust to connect the dots. My GP was very angry when I phoned him and he discovered this: fortunately my consultant had given me a copy of the letter, which I was able to photocopy and send up to our surgery, courtesy of the world’s best neighbour. I am simply too exhausted to be angry, turns out I am also now anaemic.

Yes been there and done that though not with such an urgent matter. If we can, both my wife and I like a copy of the consultant’s letter though some are better than others at sending them through. Having to use your copy when the surgery have either not got theirs or have not yet processed it – two to three week processing time has been the case in the recent past, can be vital. Though one consulant’s change had already been changed by a GP by the time the consulant’s letter came through as it was not strong enough and my blood pressure was endangering aircraft on approach to the local aircraft. I guess taking a vital part in your own health care is important, I am very glad you have a supportive neighbour who did the deed for you. My wife was sent home from the hospital with instructions to get Epipens from the GP after an anaphylaxis episode in hospital. The GP was ‘under impressed’.

As others have said harvest and husband your strength for your recovery, the margin between bold and foolhardy is razor thin. Do not do as I do and get ballistic over failures like my recent run in with Yodel over an alleged failed delivery attempt on  Saturday with a possible retry on Tuesday – it turned up at 10:00 am today with a really smart, polite chap company livery, name tag and all. He was a credit to the company and I said so.

[Bob Williams]

Thanks Richard, but the Anaemia has slowed me down anyway. I am lucky to have 2 combative HP’s, prepared to support patients against the greater NHS.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Richard]

Talking of information not being passed on or actioned here is a stop press news item. Our disabled daughter has been having ear problems for several weeks and been back and forth to the GP. On the most recent trip they took an ear swab. Even though we rang several times it was always ‘no news’, because of my wife’s developments in the  past week or two the subject of daughter’s ear has slipped of the front page. Well today daughter is complaining of not being able to use her right ear and having a problem with pain in her jaw. So yet another call to the GP and, in a subsequent ring back, it was finally revealed that that the swab test showed there was an active infection… So a little later it is all off to the GP for some, hopefully more effective follow up. This was not what we really wanted with everything else that was already in progress.

[Bob Williams]

Repeated mistakes and omisssions like that Richard, make me mad but sad. Mad for obvious reasons, but sad when you consider that we have the best medical care, with the very worst slipshod, careless administration. Losing (or probably forgetting to type and send) my consultant’s letter, is just one case in point.

Best wishes for a speedy cure to your daughter’s infection. I know you have enough other problems without that.

I have action on the Home Front, instigated by an irate GP who has organised Lincolnshire Hospitals into sending me a District Nurse and a Physiotherapy nurse. He lost patience with East Yorkshire and took it all upon himself. Thank the system for at least a good GP.

This morning I am slightly better, after having the Best. Shower. Ever. There is a lot of emotion behind those words!?

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Richard]

Managing to get cleaned up properly after a surgical procedure is one of the best feelings ever.I fully understand the pure simple pleasure it brings, been there, (after a less serious session or two than yours it should be said), done that , got the tee shirt – which the moths the ate.

Just do not gamble like me and have an all over wash in the shower, then find you should keep an area clean and dry for a week after your grand clean up, – oops, but I got away with that one a couple of weeks back.

It really is a good sign when simple things like that start to give pleasure and comfort, but continue to take care.

[Bob Williams]

I checked thoroughly with a Staff Nurse and my consultant before leaving hospital. They gave me free rein, as long as the dressings could be applied properly afterwards. When they realised that I shower, wash and otherwise in only Hibiscrub, (pink Surgical cleaner) they were pleased and said it would help clean up the huge wound. That is actually looking very good right now, clean and obviously healing, albeit slowly.

Dressings applied by my dear wife, always neatly, including the cross-plasters. Where would I be without her, I wonder? I also pity anyone leaving hospital with something like this, and no one else at home.

Raining and very cold today, cannot get out for my walk. Frustrating, because I feel quite well today. I am wearing out the carpets!

Two new neighbours to move into empty bungalows behind ours. One lady, ill for years, passed away. The other, a couple, have split up and gone separate ways. Can’t think which is most sad.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Richard]

It has not been wet here, yet; but it is very cool and dark now, rain cannot be far away. The (fill in your own choice of adjectives) wind is the real problem it has ripped off all the blossoms and is as keen as a sharpened knife. The Husky did not care, the mixed up one, part Husky part you name it got very excited and pulled me every which way and I really did not enjoy the experience. On a day like today keeping in sounds like a darned good idea. One taxi run to the doctors, one shopping run to the supermarket – every wanted item was in stock making that a great result and four dog walks was more than I really wanted today. At least the gardener lady got the grass cut and wow what a difference it has made.

You sound to have the medical support sorted, of course you did a lot of the healing while still confined so you are off to a good start.

I agree, it is sad that you have two bungalows now empty nearby under those circumstances. At least one will have no regrets, but the other pair will have time to consider where it all went wrong. Sad that the old lady was ill and suffered a lingering end, but on balance I cannot come down on one side or the other. Both were sad ends for different reasons.

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