Category Archives: Repatriation

A Day in Town

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Today I was supposed to meet up with the manager of the City Auditorium Ms. S. but her secretary called and canceled this morning because Ms. S. was ill. It’s been postponed till next week but I can’t deny that I was slightly disappointed because I’d been looking forward to meeting up with her and show my portfolio. In a way it’s good though because I still need to go through my folio and perhaps add some more designs that I’ve been working on lately.

I decided to go into town and check out the one and only toko here, a mainly Chinese toko that seem to stock all my favourite pastes, noodles, noodle soups, herbs, condiments and even some cool Chinese crockery. Another Aladdin’s cave to me, I couldn’t resist buying something, so I took a nice big jar of Thai green curry paste. I use this to make a chicken soup with coconut milk and rice noodles, very tasty and it only takes 20 minutes to prepare.

I also got myself a refill for my personal mini organiser mainly because I’m scatterbrained most of the time. But also because lately my desk is covered in notes jotted down on small pieces of paper: names, dates and times that suddenly seem to disappear when I need them most. This can be quite inconvenient. Especially when my nature is that of trying to be organised… scatterbrained but organised: yes that is possible, at least in my case it is *wink*.

Sooooo, I’m back to a typical Dutch habit: keeping an organiser to keep track of things because I have, what feels like, a million appointments planned. One tomorrow afternoon because my GP needs to see me and ever since I’ve spoken to her assistant I feel the need to ‘see her’ as well… It’s not going to be a civilised chat I’m afraid because I’m not happy about how she and her assistant have to approach things: I’m about to look for another GP.

More on that in another post probably… It’s been a strange week and next week is going to be even stranger… I hope in a good way! Have a beautiful weekend…

© Yummie Thai Green Curry Paste!

Two Evils

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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…