A doctor once told me that they multiply whatever answer they get to that question by two, sometimes three.
I actually once told them not to do that. I was a professional scientist and I didn’t falsify data (there was a joke about error bars in there somewhere though).
Every now and then there is a category when we are in the 1% 
Even more blood tests.
So many blood tests that the list spilled onto a second sheet.
Including hep a, b & c and HIV. Why not throw in the Marburg virus while you’re at it? You plonkers.
Got my hernia op to look forward to on the 8th Aug (FoL’s birthday, she’s not happy as she was hoping to be taken out).
Daycase at Droitwich which should be a fairly simple incision, poke it back in, try and block it up with a mesh, stitch it up and then done.
Keeping the hounds away from the surgical site long enough to recover will be more challenging 
Had all those last Thursday, I was impressed that the results were on the NHS app by Friday morning
That’s my take away too. The app has been genuinely good for making appointments and seeing results. For once public sector IT seems to have succeeded in tying things together.
What type of hernia Wayne? My doc wants me to have Inguinal hernia surgery which I’m not overly keen to have. I had surgery for a stomach hernia many years ago although I suspect I have split the mesh slightly since then but I have had no issues really since.
Mines ventral wall.
On return from holiday, the list has grown;
Hearing: referral to ENT for further investigation. Yesterday’s hospital visit proved to be little more than a hearing aid selling exercise 
Shoulder: X-Ray results show slight flattening of summat and normal wear, but otherwise inconclusive. Referred for MRI.
Chest Pains: Serious episode of GORD suspected. However, ECG, blood tests and BP booked to be on safe side.
This is when I need to be more on the ball than usual with the extra coaching at work, and organising our move. Kinda forced to slow down and take a back seat for a bit.
Much of my recent experience was with the zillions of tests that Claire had, almost all done in the hospital path lab. When she was an in-patient the lab’s target was a 2-hour turn around, but in extremis the doctors could request faster. I got the impression that the test equipment is highly automated and very possibly directly linked to the lab’s departmental IT system. The clinicians looking after Claire could see the results on the ward system just as soon as they were out.
As far as patient access is concerned I imagine a pathologist has to approve the report before it’s released to the patient. There are some results where it might be best to have a doctor on hand, or at least on the phone to you, when you get to see them (like the day C’s red blood cell count showed she had borderline life-threatening anaemia). If everything’s more-or-less in range though then maybe the system just nods them through.
Update from this is slightly less scary
Had appointment with Osteology consultant (Hips and knees man) he sent me for some Xrays and then had a look at MRI as well as a physical examination.
He is not that worried about the osteo necrosis (which is what had everyone else in a panic) I have two patches one above and one below the knee and he thinks they have been there for a long time. I asked him what caused it and he said historic excessive steroid use and alcohol abuse are the likely culprits (big tick on both of those.)
He thinks the problem is in my right hip, although there is also a meniscus tear in my knee.
He wants me to have a ultrasound guided steroid injection into my hip.
The idea is that if this gives pain relief (even for a day) then the problem is in my hip.
If not then it is elsewhere.
After a call to insurance company to get approval I have the procedure booked in for Monday.
Feeling a lot less panicky than when I thought my leg bone was being eaten away!
Hospital is a thing
Claire has the date for her hip replacement, 2nd Oct and she’s been told because she’s on her feet all day she’s likely to be off for 6 months! I thought these days you were up and running in a couple of weeks! Not sure I can cope with her hanging around the house for so long, she’ll get bored as fuck and take it out on me.
Might get her one of these for her to scoot around the classroom so she can go back sooner…
Best of luck with Claire’s hip op Rob
I’ll be fine mate, but thanks. 
She had a choice of hospitals in the area and obviously chose the poshest local private one so the food would be good. It’s the same NHS consultant who would have done it at Wrightington, which is a centre of excellence and where the hip implant was actually invented, but he’s doing it on his day off at massively inflated rates…
Hope it goes well for her. I suspect they’ll have her up & about the next day & maybe home then or the day after that. Then maybe 6 weeks recuperating if she does her physio & walking every day.