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Oh well… it’s been over a year since my original complaints to my doctor and the 30+30mph crash into 1.5 tonnes of metal with my face really didn’t help my with my problems. After a few trips to hopsitals this year (even to a Pshyciatrist twice FFS.. but was cleared both times. That doesn’t mean I’m not crazy, but nothing psycholigical causing my symptoms 😉 ), the Neurologist has decided to take a closer look at the damage to see how much of a fuckup my brain really is, but it means I’ve got to go to 3 different hospitals for different tests. The thing is I don’t have a clue where 2 of them are 😛 I can find them on the map, but maps don’t really include how shitty traffic can be at a certain time, roadworks etc nor the best or safest way to get there, so basically I’m just wondering if any Yokel(local) folk know the areas where the hospitals are to make my journey easier. I prefer to avoid motorways as the drivers there are so much worse than the half asleep people on normal roads, but my nearest junction is M62 Junction 20.
Next week I’m due for an EEG at North Manchester General Hospital. Never heard of it and no idea where it is – only ever been to Crumpsall once or twice and that was on a coach and didn’t really bother paying attention to where we were going 😛
In 2-3 weeks I’m due for an MRI but I know where that is so not a problem 😛
In 4-5 weeks I’m seeing a Neuropsychiatrist at an epilepsy clinic – apparently they are half Neurologist half Psychiatrist and will be more able to determine which symptoms are physical and which are psychological exaggerations or something daft like that, but anyhow I’m due at Hope Hospital which is apparently somewhere in that all-the-shops-are-closed Salford type area 😛
Thanks in advance 🙂
just a suggestion but why dont you get a bus or train then you will know more or less how long the journey will take and even perhaps have time for a nap in the process. Failing that sign up to this:
http://www.mappy.com/Crumpsall is near that lovely place Cheetham Hill. If you’re still in Rochdale get your self to Middleton and jump on the Rochdale Road(A664), striaght down all the way to Blackley fire station and you’ll see signs for the hospital just after(basically take a right after the fire station opposite the petrol station.
As for Hope might be best getting into MCR(again if you’re still Rochdale do the A664 thing, but keep going to the city centre). centre and jumping on the M602, then I think it’s junction 2 and follow the signs from then. But don’t make eye contact with the locals or stop for too long at lights.
Blackley Fire station rings a bell. I think I went past it a few times on the #17 Bus when I needed to go to Booth Hall Children’s Hospital many years ago. Whilst I’m at it I think I remember near there was signs for a major hospital, but I don’t remember which… I guess it’s the North manchester General? I guess I do have a rough idea where it is then, I just didn’t know I knew it 😮 Cheers for jogging the old memories 😉
After looking at a map Maybe going that way to Hope Hospital might not be the best, especially with al lthe scrotes around. Going on the M62/M60 and coming off at Junction 12 then coming off the M602 @ J2 may be a bit better, but after riding my Duke II to Blackburn earlier in the week to pick up documents for my patents taking it onto the motorway is probably not a good idea – the single cylinder doesn’t really have the grunt for the really high speed stuff and the lack of fairing meant I had to hang on for dear life as it was increadibly windy that day too! I noticed Eccles train station is nearby Hope Hospital though – I don’t go into Manchester City Centre often, but does the train from Rochdale end up in Piccadilly or Victoria? I’ve got a feeling maybe it’s Victoria and Victoria may also have a train that goes to Eccles. Once I went to Preston via train 7 or 8 years ago and I htink a stop or 2 down the line it ended up at Eccles, but I’m not sure… Also… what are the scrotes like around Eccles train station? The last time I actually went there would have been 1995 when we took my then-puppy on the bus for her innoculations and I was too busy messing with the dog to pay much attention to my surroundings -_-
Cheers again!
But don’t make eye contact with the locals or stop for too long at lights.
And whats up with the locals? 🙂
Nothing. Hopefully they are nearly human and they’d not like to deal hurt to a real person. But Insane don’t think for a minute just because they remove your scrap metal and such, they wouldn’t steal your titanium cam from your pacemaker.
Still if the locals start on him, he can always plead deliverance. They’ll let you off with most things as long as Mr Beaty does you up the Jaskon Pollock.
Cheers again Rum found my way to the Hospital NP – the only thing I didn’t find too easily was the Neuropshysiology department!! After a bit of raoming around found it in the end and had my EEG.
To start with I was plonked in 1 of those old/lazy man recliner seat things. Then a nice young lady measured my head and decided it would be a good idea to mark it a lot with a pen! Then she rubbed the penned areas with sandpaper type stuff, then applied some gel to the areas before getting reinforcements from another lass to chuck more electrodes onto my head. Then the test began, the chair reclined and I was left alone in the dark with the lass and had to keep my eyes closed. Unfortunately I wasn’t sodomised, but on the plus side it would have made a pretty cool picture.. if I had a camera. Being a fidget it was pretty hard for me to lay still for the entire time but atleast I had some of my troubles whilst I was being tested, so hopefully the activity should have been picked up in the brain. I’m not sure if it would have made a difference or not but it would have sucked to have the scan and have been perfectly fine at the time – lets hope I can spazz out a little bit in the MRI too 😛
The thing which sucks the most now is it’s possible I may not get the results from the EEG and MRI untill Feb next year when I’m booked in to see the Neurologist again… the results will be in much sooner and maybe even in time for the epilepsy clinic in august but chances are the Neuropsychiatrist won’t get hold of them in time or maybe was never destined to get the results 😮 I think maybe I’ll go to Hope Hospital via train though… bit too skint to be wearing out tyres and using fuel I think =/
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