so well…yes! my dad is finally giving in after months of stubbornness. He’s finally listening to mom and me and tomorrow he says he’s going to have mom ring the hospital and ass where his letter for his last apt to see his consultant got to. He never got it you see. And so he never had a follow up apt since last October. He rang in april and the secretary said his case was being reviewed, and he’d have a letter with a follow up apt within weeks. Well he never got it and he didn’t do anything about it. He refused to listen to me or to mom. He just kept thinking it would show up. The longer it went on the more stubborn he got. The more he wouldn’t listen and the worse his bowel problems are getting. He’s in a lot of pain. Then the company that prescribes one of his meds, a rectile foam for pain and inflammation stopped making the foam. He tried to ask the pharmacy to get it brought in from somewhere, obviously they couldn’t because the company stopped making it. They managed to get him one bottle of it but they said he’d have to ask his doctor to prescribe something else. So finally he’s going to do it. Finally. And finally he’s making plans to go back to the doctors. The doctor had said he’d put him on injections to bring down the imflamation. But first he has to stop drinking alcohol. He hasn’t done it. He’s still drinking and there is no sign of him stopping any time soon. Mom and me keep telling him they wont give him any injections while he’s drinking, because they are steroids and there are nasty side effects to them. And alcohol is not going to help. Mom says he doesn’t want to stop drinking. I think I agree with her that he doesn’t. But well we’ll see. Now he may just have to if his doc says he has to. First though he has to get an apt with the consultant. That could take a while given the state of our health system. I am worried that tomorrow when my mom rings, they’ll say they sent the letter and he should have got it and now that he didn’t and gave them no answer he’s off the waiting list. He’ll go mental if that happens. I can see it now. He’ll go ape shit. So hoping it wont happen. I guess only time will tell. At least now he’s willing to be seen again and work on whatever his issues are. That’s progress.
I’m glad to hear that your Dad is finally listening, but I’m afraid it’s going to be hard for him to stop drinking. Yours is such a drinking culture that everywhere he looks around, people are having one or two drinks. I hope though that he will come to the conclusion that his life is more important than a drink. Can you and your mom not drink around him?
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We really dont drink around him. He did stop for four years when he had liver trouble. But he started up again. I think he’ll do it if he’s determined, thing is, he isnt. xoxo
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Progress! I hope things work out.
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Me too! It would be good for him if they did. xxx
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Praying for your dad.
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Thanks Gail! Appreciate it! ❤
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PTL! 🙂
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hugs! xoxo you are so kind! 🙂
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❤
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🙂 xoxo
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That definitely is progress amd I am very glad about it, hope he’ll get some help and relief from the pain, but what I hope for the most is that finally he’ll also understand that drinking is now even worse thing to do than before and will quit it, however it would probably take a lot of courage and self discipline for him. Still though it’s great he’s listening finally.
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Yep. it sure is. i hope he gets an apt soon too. and hopefully he’ll come to his senses about the drinking too. xxx
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