Yep. You need to find out the student support network and there must be a senior tutor on the pastoral side to see about it. It may be (should be) in the college handbook or on their website. Good luck!

Don't cancel it Phantom Lady. You will be pleased that you have gone after it is all over. I keep my fingers crossed it goes smoothly. What time is your appoitment?

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Not a rant, just wanted to say that I survived visiting my doctor. I actually left his office giggling! 

On a serious note I'm going to need an X-ray of my back, which should show what the problem is... and I'm going to be treated accordingly. I've been perscribed some 'safe' pain mediciation. I think there might be a note in my file or something as I've told my therapist about my issues... 

The reason I left his office giggling? I'm 24 years old and have just been informed that I'm double jointed! And it's all of my joints... xD! All of my life I've been freaked out by people bending their joints in weird ways, as in almost getting sick looking at it. 

And I'm one of them... well! A whole new world has opened for me! 

I will know when I pick them up on Monday!

Oh... I just remembered I have to figure out when I need to start taking my iron tablets again. I love being a blood donor, but with a low iron count it's a bit of a bother to be honest... last time I gave blood I had liver for my dinner the night before, had taken iron tablets for weeks and my iron count only just made the mark.

And I still got so ill and faint for the rest of the day. Ugh. 

But I really do want to give blood, I have the perfect blood type, O Negative, meaning everyone can use my blood... and selfishly, I can only recieve my own type... so that's why I donate. 

Well I've started taking the tablets now, I have 20 left of the massive stack the nurse gave me last time... (My appointment is on the 15th). Last time my Hb was 7,9 which as I understood it was an all right number, When I first showed up it was barely over 7... 

I guess my low values comes from the fact that I tend to forget proteins in my diet (Sometimes I forget to eat at all now, plus meat is really expensive when I can barely pay the rent). 

I was drinking lots and lots of water and yet I nearly fainted. I'm no whimp arount needles and blood at all,.. 

Ugh, and now I'm starting to worry if the anti acid tablets I've been prescribed with my pain meds might ban me from donating. Ugh I wish there was more clear information about this! 

Oh well, at least I know it's all for a greater cause. 

Yup, it's in mmol/L! Sorry for the confusion! 

All of those food items are a bit pricey for me to be honest, my family do send me home with some food though. But I generally live off of pasta, rice or oats with milk. Sometimes a bit of cheese... Ugh, I hate being this poor sometimes; I'd love a better diet! 

I finally, after a lot of searching on the net found out that the anti acids are fine, if I don't take them 24 hours before donating, the same goes for the pain killers... So it'll be fine! Just the iron count left to worry about. 

I guess I'll have to learn to love Baked beans... I have to admit I really don't like the taste and texture... but well yes sometimes you have to learn to eat stuff you don't like. 

I always loved the thought of growing your own, my mother has always had a well stocked garden and green house and there was nothing better than picking your own cucumber in the garden. Sadly my flat is horrible for anything living (I've informed people not to give me living flowers). Everything dies in here in a few days because of the bad indoor climate here... I don't know if it's the small size of my flat. (it's 36 square meters). So that wouldn't work sadly. And sadly there's no landshare things around here I know of. 

My luck is that my family always sends me home with what they can spare (although sometimes I decline). 

At least I'm losing weight because of the situation! I've suffered from BED since I was a little girl and it means I've put on a lot of weight, and with the help from my obsession with Ben as well I'm almost all out of that! So it's not all bad! 

It's just making me miserable that I have the cheapest flat in town and yet I can barely pay my rent being on benefits. How are other people meant to cope? 

 

And yet while there's just been given a raise to a group of politicians here they are complaining that they give out too much in benefits... I just hope I find a job soon. The job centers just rub me off the wrong way. They adviced me to take the education I did; which turns out to have no jobs at the end of it; as no one knows what the heck a Healthcare Service Secretary is. And when I'm back on benefits after doing really well in school... well they go and forget about me. (They are supposed to offer everyone under 30 with an education a job or a placement after 6 weeks). I was offered neither. In fact they didn't even notice I was there despite me showing up every day, first one there and the last one to leave... I think I've been at home for about a month now with absolutely nothing to do! 

Oh well, ranting about that doesn't change things.


Ugh, Daylight savings always mess with me. (Especially being dyscalculic which means I already struggle with time). 

My internal body clock is totaly messed up. First I did a lot of night shifts and now there is the daylight saving thing. I should be back to normal in a couple of days, until then there is coffee. lol

Over here a lot of Hospital trusts are trying to save money by cutting down secretarial workforce and using things like electronic dictation with voice recognition or outsourcing work abroad. It doesn't work very well so I hope they will drop those ideas. I'm lucky enough at the moment to have access to a real person that I can actualy talk to face to face.

I'm a bit conflicted about our benefits reforms. On one hand I feel that many people who currenlty get 'long term sickness' benefit could be working and it's a good thing that we are looking at it. On the other hand the way the goverment goes about it is very badly organised. The way they assess people is not very good at all and focuses on physical disabilities (although they can't get even get that right, we had a lady in a long tem coma recently decleraed as fit to look for work ). I have lost count of how many people with severe mental health problems we had to admit with a relapse after their benefits were stopped. That's not very cost effective for the tax payer.

I am generaly very much in favour of helping people with mental health problems back to employment as it's good for you to work. However they need to create jobs first and fight the stigma amongst employers. On paper they have created a lot of retrainign and back to work schemes but how well it all works in practice really depends on the individual job center. As you have experienced yourself by the sound of things.

I have a very strong accent and all those electronic dictation systems struggle to pick up what I'm saying. The better ones can 'learn' and after you work with a programme for a bit it starts to get better but it's quite frustrating. You end up spending ages correcting all the mistakes.

The hospital I worked in before had an electronic swich board. It was horrific. You would ask for something like cardiology and it will say 'Did you ask for cafeteria?'. It would be very comical if it wasn't frustrating. I have ended up having the sort of interactions with the phone as John had with the electronic checkout.

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