How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

I just need to vent.

I have been suffering from tooth pain for too long now. There wasn't a NHS dentist with capacity until very recently. I had my assessment last week. Two bad wisdom teeth need to be removed. That is scheduled for 21st November.

The past 24 hours have been hell.

Constant pain not touched by any over the counter meds.

I finally broke down and contacted 111 as there is no other option.

But because it is tooth related they can't help

Anything dental has to be done through NHS Dentistry which has zero out of hours provision. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

I have to contact my surgery when it opens at 8am and hope.

I am shaking from the pain. At my wit's end.

Any other pain and 111 would help. But because it is tooth related they won't. Even though the pain has spread to my eye socket and down into my neck.

What is the point of emergency healthcare that won't treat part of the body? How has this huge gap in the system been allowed to be created and maintained?

I am struggling beyond words. Just don't know what to do

Earliest I can get an emergency appointment is tomorrow at 5.30. But will take whatever I can get

Thanks. Not long back from my appointment where at least I got some antibiotics for the infection

Obvious suggestion but try googling “emergency dental care *your town/city*”. For example Manchester refers people to the university dental hospital where they train students and need real patients. Might be worth a try.
Appalling service from 111 though. It says on their website that they refer dental emergencies to the necessary service if your dentist is closed.

Re doctors referral systems I wanted to ask a question about the covid booster vaccination. Unbelievably it wasn’t on the list of conditions so I used the General Enquiries/ Reception option. Got a text back from some numpty saying he couldn’t answer my question as he wasn’t a doctor. He didn’t ASK a doctor to reply, just told me he couldn’t help. Useless..

Do normal hospitals not provide emergency dental treatment any more, then? Admittedly I hvaen't needed this for years (& after that my brilliant NHS dentist became Denplan/fully private only, so I bit the bullet and signed up in order to stick with him), but one of my teeth fell apart on a night duty some years ago and the local hospital did an excellent temporary repair for me - and on a Sunday morning.

if you have a local dentist hospital then you might get out of hours care but 111 told me in no uncertain terms that no such provision was available locally for me.

Had fun carrying home a 4ft fluorescent light and replacing it in the kitchen.

My niece has just told me her husband is having his first book published tomorrow. It's showing on a lot of websites including WH Smiths & Amazon etc. However Amazon have printed the photo & bio of a different Daniel Robinson. The book is "The Good Doctor". It isn't the sort of book I normally read. - It is historical & about Austwitz & Dr Mengele but it's family so I guess I'll buy it.

I had the Capital Jingle Ball on in the background whilst eating my dinner tonight and have a couple of observations.
Of the section I watched I'd only ever heard of S Club 7/5.
There was a DJ on but surely he is just playing something that's already been recorded so is he just pretending to push buttons and move dials?
A girl in little blue shorts and a polo shirt that must have shrunk in the wash. I think she forgot she was meant to be pretending to sing live as most of the time she was dancing around with the hand held mic nowhere near her mouth or even her head!
Then she asked everyone to jump up and down and I feared we would see small children crashing to the arena floor who were jumping up and down on level 4 of the o2 which is high and very very narrow steps.

I feel so old.

Today I found that in 62 invoices for one customer:
- 46 had no purchase order quoted on the invoices, so they were rightfully rejected by the customer.
- 30 had the wrong due date on, and needed extending.

I had the same thing a few years ago but on Christmas Eve. Definitely not the time for it to go bang! 

Having a wander around the Bluewater Shopping centre and bumped into a certain member of the admin team  -