People always tend to talk negative about the health system in the UK but I never had any problems with specialists or hospitals there. They listen to what you’ve got to say and take your complaints serious, they don’t treat you condescendingly or show this annoying superior attitude, they don’t tell you things you already know for years…

In the Lowlands they wouldn’t listen to what I had to say last week about the specialist in the UK and what she recommended, they felt superior and wouldn’t accept her medical opinion. Their reaction was: ‘we’ don’t have that medicine here and ‘we’ feel it doesn’t work. *I feel it does!* ‘We’ have our own methods so ‘we’ are going to do this ‘our’ way…

Gosh… such arrogance!

The specialist in the UK told me that they’ve got much better allergy tests in the Lowlands and that I should have it done there, she was patient, polite and didn’t have the arrogant competitive attitude like the Dutch have. Her treatment had done me good, I wasn’t just a file number, she knew who I was when I visited her six months later.

So now I’m a guinea pig having to deal with people who are not really interested. I’ve been given medication that is kinda new and they don’t know the side effects for longterm use. It burns, stings and it hurts but it seems less damaging to the skin *no hormones*. I can see a difference already but this burning sensation is killing me…

It seems to disappear after two weeks: one week down the road it should be gone. I’m glad it’s winter because the cold numbs it in a way but I’m not looking forward to the summer: let’s hope the problem will be gone by then. I’m not allowed to catch any sunshine either, they’re still doing some serious research on the side effects.

It’s like having to choose the lesser of two evils… I was reminded again of the perfect health system and past frustration with hospitals and so-called specialists.

© Unknown A blank look…