MJ Mad Dog

Author: Michael James

  • Week 240 – October 14th – Scams

    I received an email regarding new rules regarding money and scams.

    The main points are these.

    “From the 7 October 2024, we’ll be following new rules for Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud.

    Just to recap – APP fraud is when you believe you’re making a genuine payment but are tricked into sending money to a criminal.

    What it means for you if you fall victim to APP fraud

    We’ll reimburse your payments up to £85,000, if they’re eligible and are made after the 7 October 2024. The rules include most Faster Payments and CHAPS made in the UK.

    If your claim is successful, we’ll put your money back into your account within 5 working days. If we reimburse you, we may not pay the first £100 per claim. This is called an excess. For example, if you raise a claim for £1,000 then we could reimburse £900.”

    I find it interesting that they might take £100 if you get your money back and why was this email sent after the rule came into place and not before.

  • Week 239 – October 13th – 2 years on

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  • Week 239 – October 12th – Flu and Covid 19 vaccine jabs

    Took Claire to have her flu and Covid 19 vaccine jabs this morning at a chemist in Sidcup.

    All went OK and hopefully these will protect her over the winter months.

  • Week 239 – October 7th – After 33 years

    After we got back from London, we decided to go to Bluewater.

    We had been discussing about changing mobile provider as the service coverage we were getting with O2 was getting bad.

    So we went into the EE shop, little knowing apart from leaving for about 30 minutes to sort out the O2 contract, that we wouldn’t be leaving EE until 3.5 hours later.

    The service we received was excellent, it did help that we were with BT for our broadband, so that made that switch easier, as they work together.

    Overall we were saving about £22 a month for the broadband and mobile contracts, which is pretty good considering Claire was upgrading from iPhone 14 to the new iPhone 16 and I was going to get Claire’s iPhone 14 to replace my iPhone 8.

    This was after we had been with O2 for 33 years.

    Let’s hope coverage will be better and also good to be saving money at the same time upgrading phones and service too.

  • Week 239 – October – 7th – St Thomas

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  • Week 238 – October 6th – Christmas food ordering already

    Crazy, not long back from our fantastic holiday and were ordering food for Christmas.

    Already some of the options were not available, were only just into October.

    The good thing, was the sizes and prices were virtually the same as last year, so M&S were helping people with doing that. Well done M&S

  • Week 238 – October 5th – Reunion

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  • Week 238 – October 4th – Anticoagulant appointment

    Well just after 9am, I get a call from the anticoagulant team and said could I get there for 11am to have an ultra sound and see them.  Impressed that they called so early, but also showed the seriousness of the issue.

    Thankfully this time there was no issue with parking.

    I had my ultra sound and they were showing me on the screen where all the clots were in the left leg, I said, well I haven’t wasted your time, which they said no.

    I then had my appointment and from the results of the scan, said that I had SVT, which is blood clots in the outer veins, which isn’t as bad as DVT, but if not treated could still cause the blood clots to travel around my body and cause more issue.

    I was given 6 weeks of blood thinner tablet and to be contacted next week and after 5 weeks.

    I have to say they were brilliant and very helpful and showed the NHS at its best. Let’s hope the tablet does what it should do.

    SVT
    The report showing I’m suffering from SVT

    SVT
    The medication that I’m on, the Flucloxcillin is an antibiotic for a week and the Rivaroxaban (actually 10mg) is for 6 weeks.

  • Week 238 – October 3rd – Urgent Care and A&E

    For the last few days, I have had pain in my left leg and noticed some swelling was appearing. With not long coming back from holiday I was concerned about this.

    Finally the pain that was much that I went to our urgent care centre for help and advice.

    I was seen by a triage nurse quite quickly, but then had a 2 hours wait for a doctor, which was a complete waste of time, as he didn’t really look at my leg and I was told to go to A&E, after seeing him for less than a minute. It does make me wander what they can treat here.

    So I drove over to the A&E, this was mid-afternoon, but could not find anywhere to park. In the end I decided to drive back home and get Claire to come and if we couldn’t park, at least she could drop me off and come back later.

    This time we were able to park, after checking in, again saw the triage nurse quite quickly, though she wasn’t impressive with the service I had at the urgent care and marked me urgent.

    Though I was still there for 4 hours. Once I saw a doctor and they looked at my leg, they said they would refer me to the anticoagulant team and should hear from them tomorrow. I was given anti biotic and blood thinner tablet.

    We finally got home, just after 9pm.

  • Week 238 – October 1st – Doctors appointment

    This morning, I actually had a face to face doctor’s appointment. Of course they were running late, but this was down to a GP going ill. The appointment was because about 5 or 6  times this year, I have had a reaction to something, that has caused my mouth (inside and out) plus lips to swell and my hands and wrist too. Which has never happened to me before.

    We believe it is nuts or seeds, but would like it confirmed.

    I was hoping that I would have an allergy test there and then, but of course in this day and again, you have to be sent elsewhere for that to be done.

    Well see how long, especially as the doctor marked it urgent.

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