Thanks
@everydayupsanddowns really appreciated, had many breakthroughs in past week leading up to closing of office hours and time out for long bank holiday weekend, which is mostly dreaded by those of us with "Total Package" of diagnosed debilitating long-term mental health and chronic physical health issues, as it means all services we depend upon just shutdown for four maybe five days at time, and really grateful again to Lisa and Our Friends In The North at Diabetes UK Oop Narth offices in Warrington (far north of Birmingham!) for going above and beyond to call me back before 5pm closing and offer amazing insightful help advice support for North of England regions...
I have felt very pressured and stressed and squeezed for weeks (not fart joke for once!), and today I was threatened with being stabbed by very aggressive street homeless junkie scavenging in bins who shouted "fat tw*t" at me for not handing over money I didn't have on demand and harassing students at entrance of gated student accommodation near my GP Surgery, but ignored this person and carried on waddling very slowly to my Diabetes Nurse appointment, reported the twitching sweating slightly feral wannabe-mugger to the police on my mobile and no surprise, very high blood pressure and usual misgendering deadnaming and insistence on gendering my genitals to describe one possible side effect of new meds from list of around forty - swollen red itching scrotum and penis, so if your penis and scrotum is swollen red and itching you need to go straight to A+E!
I very calmly stated yet again (lost count of how many times I've said this to NHS staff, public sector equality duty what now?!) that my preferred name, title and pronouns were all gender neutral, and I don't use male names titles or pronouns, and I self-identify as non-binary queer person (this includes the genital zone of my body) but never listened to or respected, once I got really annoyed and suggested the NHS staff called me by any name they wanted to such as Bozo The Clown or Toto The Dog and then told I was being rude and offensive to NHS staff ha!
So got my new meds Empagflozin, got to drink lots of water, got to take urine sample to show GP next week, still no news about Mounjaro being available on NHS Prescription in my local area, and with assistance of various advocates and union bods, got temporary reprieve on being constantly threatened with eviction from my home and bullied by jobsworths who are too cowardly to admit to their nasty bullying threats and taking my case to Housing Ombudsman with support, and can slowly reduce my stress levels and maybe learn to enjoy bank holiday weekends...
Here's some deconstructing news about the dark inner workings of our friends in the Pharmaceutical industries controlling the prices and the supplies of semaglutide diabetes drugs hijacked by fashionable celebs throwing cash at private clinics for these drugs to fit in like the latest sample size zero clothes you guys, literally, like the Kardashians famous for, um, being thin and wearing clothes in public yay...
Drug companies urged to ‘release stranglehold’ on medicines such as Ozempic and Trulicity, as millions are priced out of treatment
www.theguardian.com
