I seem to have been in a slough of despond where organisations aren’t helping me do anything. I applied for some drawdown of my equity release, and it’s been days without them sending me over the funds. They usually take two days, so I rang them to move them on. Many apologies from them, but no funds yet.
Additionally, I applied for a repeat prescription about ten days ago and have run out of one of my iterations of insulin. Obviously, I’m not dead yet, but they haven’t sent it and my blood sugar numbers are hitting the stratosphere. I hope it arrives tomorrow or that will be two weeks without my basal insulin, and I’ll be running short on some of my other medications. I do think that ‘apply online’ for medications means ‘fulfil prescriptions as and when they feel like it’ for the doctors and the pharmacy.
My friend Julian suggested I buy my medications (specifically Ozempic. I’m supposed to be on Ozempic, but the diabetic nurse tells me it won’t be available until the end of the year) but somehow I baulk at that, as in Wales medicines are provided free. Ozempic isn’t a cheap hobby.
I also nearly got caught up in a phishing scam, and while they didn’t get any money (I realised what they were up to with seconds to spare) I’ve had to replace my bank card. So far over the last ten days I’ve had one item of post and that was a letter form Ysbty Gwynedd. Interesting, but not a bank card. I know what the card number is through my app. but no actual card, meaning that when I went to Bangor yesterday, I had to use the ‘emergency cash’ function of the app, and I’ve never used that before. It worked, but I hope to get the card soon.
Bangor was looking lovely – the weather was bright and sunny, lots of daffodils were out and the university was looking spectacular. Very much why I came to live in north Wales. So that was good.
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