This week the government very quietly (just before the election) removed the remaining COVID-19 restrictions mandating the wearing of facemasks. Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall announces end of remaining coronavirus restrictions The final remnants of New Zealand’s COVID-19 response restrictions are going to be removed, the Health Minister has announced. The last measures will end on Tuesday, about three-and-a-half years after COVID-19 first emerged globally and New Zealand began introducing restrictions to limit its spread, keep people healthy, and avoid…
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“”Medical gaslighting” is an informal term that refers to patients having their real symptoms dismissed or downplayed by medical professionals, leading to incorrect diagnoses. Women and racial minorities are more likely to be affected by the phenomenon “ — Wikipedia I am posting this, partially as a personal record and to let you know my (lack of) progress with the. medical profession. I can tell you that this interaction is about as good as it ever gets with these people….
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Are we going to get off the Internet and start helping each other? We need support groups, not just information. In the last week I have been trying to get blood tests done for what I think is a kidney/bladder condition. First, I had to fight the doctor in a consultation that was as good as it Is likely to get, to take my concerns seriously (I will post the transcript separately.but I have been struggling to get blood…
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Here is my autobiography, “Things I Can Tell”. After weeks of tearing my hair out I can now report that I have my final version of my reflective autobiography up on KIndle, where it should be available in about 3 days. You can read the updated PDF version HERE It is also available on the Internet Archive, HERE The title, “Things I Have Known” is taken from an eponymous book written by a distant ancestor, Lord Rossmore in the 1930’s. My printer…
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After weeks of tearing my hair out I can now report that I have my final version of my reflective autobiography up on KIndle, where it should be available in about 3 days. You can read the updated PDF version HERE It is also available on the Internet Archive, HERE The title, “Things I Have Known” is taken from an eponymous book written by a distant ancestor, Lord Rossmore in the 1930’s. My printer found this on the Internet Archive. …
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On Monday at 11:00 NZT (you can think or pray for me) I have a phone consultation with a doctor I have never met before. Based on the that the medical system has made the principle of appearing to do something while in fact do nothing, into an art form I do not expect anything positive to come out of the conversation. If indeed he reads my hand-delivered letter I expect him to do what others before him have done: …
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I have not disappeared off the side of the Earth. I have been struggling with my health since I finished my book. I have an appointment with a new doctor at the old Centre. It is a phone consultation so I have laid it all out in a letter. It remains to be seen if he will do what he should and order urgent tests of kidney function and rule out other less likely and more mundane causes. If this…
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This is my explanation as to why I am not posting as much as I did before. While writing this book, I was mercifully free of severe symptoms that might have prevented me from writing. Almost to the very day of me posting my first version of this book, I started to experience some serious symptoms. I started to feel extreme urgency to urinate. When I tried to pass urine I found I could not pass more than a few…
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After weeks of working on my autobiography I can now release a .PDF copy. This is still a work in progress. My plans are still to post this on Kindle to give away. You can read the document in PDF HERE I am posting both the Foreword and the Postscript here. Foreword A few days ago I listened to an inspiring interview with Pfizer whistle-blower, Dr Mike Yeadon. In it, he described how he lost his mother at 18 months…
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I have been through a couple of very bad days healthwise. In addition, I am fully involved in my own project. At the moment there seems to be an interregnum in the war with the Ukrainians trying to make their counteroffensive but, so far, being repulsed by the Russians. There is a meeting in Vilnius,Lithuania in a few days which may be momentous.But we will say. In the meantime, I am using the time for myself but will immediately come…
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