Tuesday, October 28, 2008

We spoke to the hospital yesterday.

We spoke to the hospital yesterday, or rather Peter did, he tends not to let me deal with serious stuff, can't think why. Anyway it seems that we have two proper tumours in our lung, one 1 centimetre long, whatever a centimetre is, and another 1.5 centimetres. We also have a couple of nodules in our lymph glands but they are not sure if they are cancerous or not yet.

Once the pain, coughing and breathing problems start to get too much we have to go in and have what they call second line chemotherapy. This will be the last lot for us because we live in England. Anywhere else in the UK we could then go onto third line chemo but it's expensive and in racially discriminate Britain English people are not considered worth spending the money on, even though it's mainly English taxes that fund the NHS.

So we are once more going to have the pleasure of sitting in a hospital waiting for over worked nurses to inject us with poison that this time will make us sick and our hair fall out, while the ward is full of pen pushers doing absolutely nothing except making sure that the hospital meets government targets.

If we were somehow to find the ten thousand pouns that would be needed for our third line chemo those wonderful people at New Labour have put another obstacle in our way. Basically if you find the money for the drugs that could help prolong your life then, out of spite, New Labour won't let you have any treatment at all on the NHS and you have to pay for everything.

So, all you people who say how great the NHS is can you please tell me how it is fair and just to withold treatment from people because of their nationality, how it is fair and just to provide free prescriptions to millionaires in Wales but not cancer treatment to poor people in England and how it is fair and just to allow milionaires all over the country free treatment for just about anything but if a cancer patient dares to raise the money for their drugs they then are entitled to no free treatment at all no matter how poor they are?

This time I agree with Peter, the NHS is nothing more than a system where poor English people pay huge amounts of tax to provide free health care to the rich and to foreigeners. And if you vote Labour you are scum, you know you are, and you are just too selfish to care.

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