I have a bad case of tonsilitis. The last time that this happened i ended up at St mary's hospital for 5 days, with an intravenous tube on my arm for three of those days. I had had to rush myself to the A&E because my boss at work at that time wouldn't let me go and see a Dr thinking nit wasn't serious. So it was quite funny when she phoned the following day and my friuend answered my phone and barked at her from the hopsital bedside.

Back to now: I basically fell sick in the early hours of yesterday and it just got progressively worse. I couldn't get out of bed yesterday, was feverish and hallucinating a little bit. So eventually when i roused myself at 6pm and forced myself to eat something i thought I'd call the surgery first thing in the morning because they never answer the phones promptly and they always have a new receptionist. Wonder why

So this morning i spoke to some guy who really sounded like he would rather be lying in bed somewhere or cheating pensioners out of their savings in some African country. It all went well initially, he gave me a slot for 11am after saying there was no Dr today. I begged and pleaded to see the nurse or anyone available and he relented. Soon after he told me I had been removed from their records. Mind you, i have been mysteriously removed from the register. The woman at the time could not explain why. I hadn't moved areas or done anything wrong and her only explanation was that maybe the hospital had been co-ordinating records with GPs and made a mistake. That set off alarm bells because as far as I know and understand, it you go to a walk-in clinic or some sexual health clinic or anything else you are always given the option of whether you want your GP to be informed or not. I always say no, it's not his business whether you have thrush or not and get treatement for it.

Anyway, the bastard today fed me the same line. Ok, i have moved recently and cofessed to that but couldn't they see me as it is an emergency? the bastard told me if it was such an emergency then I could find a GP in my area and they would do an emeregency registration and see me! i have never heard such bollocks!! Why couldn't they see me as an emeregecny bearing in mind what had happened the last time? they should be monitored anyway but the guy was adamant and wanted to give me an NHS direct number so I couldn scout for a GP. Never mind that I am in Richmond and not central London at the moment.

He even put me on hold and cut me off eventually, and I had to ring back and find out why. He said he thought I had put the phone down. In the end, his tune was that I am not in the register, could not explain why I wasn't as I hadn't gone to say I'm moving and told me i'll have to go to A&E or find a GP somewhere for emergencies. And you wonder why the NHS is such a shambles!!

I can't go to London today to look for a GP, I have to work later this morning so basically i am fucked. I don't know if chemists have stuff for tonsils because i've been told I'll probably need anti-biotics but i really feel let down and angry.

Something like this could really have been avoided and i don't think in some of the stupid cases you can blame the government. sometimes employees lack common sense.

I just hope there aren't complications