The Appointment!

 When I saw the head Doctor of our Surgery last month, he gave me the Consultant Urologist's letter and suggested, that I write to the Consultant myself re: the vaccine for UTIs, so I did. I had the appointment yesterday afternoon and the Consultant who had said,  that I qualified for the vaccine against UTIs then, yesterday went back on everything he had said, when I saw him in June. He's now saying I have to have a cystoscopy to determine, that I do need the vaccine.

He suggested next week or the week after, and I said not before Christmas. Dh interjected that my health was more important than Christmas, and I insisted after Christmas.

We left the hospital with me in tears, I was so disappointed.. when we arrived home Dh and I spoke about my decision to wait till after Christmas.  He can't understand when I say after Christmas ... because I shouted I don't want to be eating my Christmas dinner sitting on the toilet, because that's what it would be like!!   As it is I sometimes have my after dinner cuppa in the loo!  grrrr they have no idea,,, men! I am like hundreds of other women who go to the toilet 3  times in the night and  that's a good night. I've had 3 other cystoscopies, one without pre-anti-biotics and it was hell! I was wee-ing every 20 mins and then every hour and my bladder eventually calmed down after a couple of days. I can't understand why we have to have a procedure, when it is known to have a possible cause of an infection and pain.

So its after Christmas with some anti-biotics, at least I got those!

                            Chrisxx