Style With Mairi

[Style With Mairi @iriams2012]

@DPDuk_Helper_ messages two days in a row stating unable to deliver package, have been in both days and also no vehicle has been seen on the road live chats no use as communication with computer does not let you reach a real person… HELP! @DPDsupportline

[Style With Mairi @iriams2012]

@PrivilegeUK I am trying to help someone with there insurance and wondering why can someone not be told why you are unable to offer renewal… oh because our new computerised underwriting systems say so…. What utter nonsense …. How is that treating a customer fairly?

[John Nichol ✈ @JohnNicholRAF]

As you enjoy your dinner tonight, as you look at your family, think back 80 years when 133 young men took to the skies.
53 #Dambusters were killed this night. & 3 PoW.
Only 48 of that 133 would survive WW2.
The sacrifice of Bomber Command across the war is unrivalled.
RIP gents.

[Murdo Fraser MSP @murdo_fraser]

Abandoned by the SNP, Highlanders are turning to UK Government for support – my latest ⁦@TheScotsman⁩ column https://t.co/AOU4vUBs96

[Robin Redmile-Gordon @WhatNowDoc]

Letter to my GP:

Dear Sirs,
I’ve no idea to whom I should address this as the text message I’ve received simply says, “The GP”.  How impersonal.  I therefore have no choice but to leave this, similarly, impersonal.

The text message I received this morning refers to a request made, two weeks ago, for a simple one page declaration to be completed, so that I may relieve the NHS of the burden of treatment for my rare, terminal leukaemia.

Two weeks later, I am told that for the privilege of relieving that burden, both financially and from a resource perspective, you wish to charge me £160.  I call that blackmail, I call if graft, I call it despicable, nothing less.

For fifty years I have paid an enormous sum of money (having been a high earner) in National Insurance contributions and taxes, which includes keeping you all in the style to which you are accustomed.  For forty of those years, I have done all in my power to avoid ever using your services – unfortunately, the system is designed to make that impossible, completely.  For that same period I have also paid private healthcare insurance.

I have dealt with my own lung cancer-induced lobectomy, my cholecystectomy, my Gamma Knife treatment for a brain metastasis, everything.  Tens of thousands of pounds, some paid by me, some by insurers.  When I got sick with Covid in March 2020, I rang the surgery just to confirm my symptoms and some indication that I was doing all the right things.  I was greeted by an answerphone message that basically said, “Don’t you know there’s a pandemic on, sod off and leave us alone”.  This, despite the fact that you had informed some minion at Surrey County Council that I was “Extremely Clinically Vulnerable”.  Well, no problem, I looked after myself, called a private GP who basically confirmed I was doing all the right things and am now immune to the Chinese Flu.  Sorry, I know I deprived you of a vaccination fee or five but I’m fine, thank you for asking.

For three years, your staff sat on multiple blood test results demonstrating my CMML, each one flagged by the laboratory for observation.  That for a condition with a median life-expectancy of 15-20 months.  Utter negligence, at best. Yes, in August 2020, I also organised and paid for my CMML diagnosis because you’d closed and bolted the barricades.

I am one of your cheapest patients, keeping myself alive and on your list so you can continue to draw the annual stipend.  In any other business, in any organisation where someone gave a darn, you’d have patted me on the back, thanked me profusely for relieving you of the chore of caring for me and signed the ruddy form, same day!  One hundred and sixty quid?! Are you kidding?  That’s roughly what you get paid each year for having me on your list.

The one person that I personally have encountered, who made any effort on my behalf was Kate Fitzgerald – I only remember two phone calls from your practice in the last forty years, one was to inform me I had lung cancer, at six o’clock one Friday evening – lovely timing.  The second was from Kate Fitzgerald a couple of weeks ago because she HAD actually checked my blood results and reacted to what they revealed.  Good on her!

As it transpired, her urgent interventions on my behalf resulted in four cancelled appointments with https://t.co/hh19CtJ0gw for a bone marrow aspiration and me giving up and paying £6,950 to a London Hospital in desperation and frustration – not that this was your fault.  I salute her and that’s why I addressed my letter to her but, for some reason, despite her being the only person familiar with my case, she was obliged to pass on the request “for costing” and thus, two full weeks later, here we are.

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[Style With Mairi @iriams2012]

So sad, such a talented lady😔

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie has died following a short illness at the age of 79. https://t.co/S5UsdLRRJn

[Style With Mairi @iriams2012]

@GeorgeAdam @scotgov @NicolaSturgeon @HumzaYousaf @MhairiBlack @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews Thank you George , I will.

[Style With Mairi @iriams2012]

@scotgov @NicolaSturgeon @HumzaYousaf @MhairiBlack @GeorgeAdam @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews yesterday’s post has disappeared🤷‍♀️my friend has moved to Paisley and has tried to register with 4 doctors and NONE are taking new patients. She needs medical treatment.. what should she do ?

[Style With Mairi @iriams2012]

She tried to see a private doctor to have bloods taken and he could not do anything as she is not registered with a doctor…so no help 9n NHS and no help privately , surely that cannot be right!

[Dan Wootton @danwootton]

If Nicola Sturgeon is a person of honour as she claims, then she surely must resign for her mask law breach?
She has been absolutely insistent that Boris Johnson must resign for his equally minor breach of lockdown laws.
What’s the difference?

[UK🇬🇧 C_K_This! SNP OUT @KeepUKtogether]

It is time that the people of Scotland recognised and appreciated the unparalleled achievements of our @ScotGovFM. No other FM or Scot Govt has come close to matching her political accomplishments. This Teflon coated tyrant has successfully lied to & misled .. thread 1/6 >

[Style With Mairi @iriams2012]

@CalMacFerries just wanted to say your Customer Services Team in Gourock are absolutely first class. Always friendly and extremely helpful, nothing is ever a problem and queries handled with ease. Well done 👏🏻👏🏻

[𝒯𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓎 🇬🇧🚜 💚🤍💜 @tractorgirly]

Ok I definitely won't be retweeting this again 😉

[Style With Mairi @iriams2012]

@Lord_Sugar Merry Christmas Lord Sugar

[Style With Mairi @iriams2012]

@benonwine

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

Folks I’ve reached point where I don’t actually give a TOSS about parties at Downing St; I CARE? About our Kids being Murdered: People living in fear & losing businesses their jobs & 6 Million waiting in pain for operations! I’m Sorry but I care about many MORE IMPORTANT things🤷‍♂️

[Clarke1nil @Clarke1nil1]

I realise that this is a massive long shot and that most will scroll past this BUT, this photo dropped out of a charity shop cd I bought in the Lakes months ago. On the back is written ‘Southport 1946’ I’d love to return it to the family. Twitter do your stuff.

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

Favourite tweet all day.

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

Folks; These two 👇👇have been giving Boris Johnson & the Conservatives a right public ear bashing over parties last year in contravention of Covid; Did not Ms Burley & holier than though Beth do exactly the same themselves?🤷‍♂️ Those who live in glass houses comes to mind… Eh?🙄