Back in July like thousands of others I attended the Great Yorkshire Show. On this day my knee decided to play up and gave way. I was propelled forward landing on my left shoulder. When I got home I took some pain killers. Several weeks later as I was still in considerable pain in my left shoulder and could barely lift my left arm I went to the doctors.

I was sent for an ultrasound scan at Airedale Hospital. The scan showed I had almost completely tore a ligament in my shoulder. I was referred to a consultant at The Yorkshire Hospital who also had an x-ray done whilst I was there. I was informed I would be having an anaesthetic block put on my shoulder and arm. Then using micro surgery the tendon would reattach and the bone trimmed. Two letters have arrived in post. One gave me a date of pre-op assessment and the other the date time and place of the surgery. Just of late I have seen the insides of several more Northern Hospitals.

I had to go to St James in Leeds as my Endocrine system was out of order. I also had the privilege of going to Bradford Royal hospital to their ENT clinic as an emergency patient after being transferred from Airedale hospital to there. What an eye opener BRI was. There was a triage nurse who could barely speak English. .I had to go to reception to get them to translate what the Nurse had said.
Then to cap it off I ended up having to cross into Lancashire take my Granddaughter to three different hospital in Lancashire. She has Albinism and Nastigmas and has been listed as partially sighted.