[speaker001:] Good morning.
[Mary:] Good morning.
[speaker001:] Well now, what were you doing?
[Mary:] Ah. This pain in my back,
[speaker001:] Is the dry rot getting further in do you think?
[Mary:] It is. And it's coming down my shoulder to my hand.
[speaker001:] Aargh.
[Mary:] And erm my head's fuzzy you know.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]
[Mary:] It's like bells in my ears. [cough]
[speaker001:] Right.
[Mary:] This catarrh, I don't know I think it's catarrh.
[speaker001:] Aha.
[Mary:] It's in there.
[speaker001:] Spitting.
[Mary:] And I get into kinks, coughing
[speaker001:] Right.
[Mary:] to get it up.
[speaker001:] Right.
[Mary:] And it makes me. Sometimes I cannot get the cough out. And I'm coughing like, it's coughing. You know like, is
[speaker001:] Like the whoop?
[Mary:] whooping cough?
[speaker001:] Like the whooping cough?... Right. Now now.
[Mary:] And erm I get a letter back, I'm getting the Attendance Allowance.
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[Mary:] Have not got it yet, but
[speaker001:] Yeah. Och aye. So the, with this
[Mary:] it's the only thing I've got.
[speaker001:] with this changing the rules, about eighteen months ago,
[Mary:] Aha.
[speaker001:] they're giving away money.
[Mary:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] Can't can't get rid of it fast enough. Can't get rid of it fast enough. Now, let's get a wee listen to the back of this chest to see if you
[Mary:] ? Are you going to take my blood pressure today?
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[Mary:] I haven't had it taken
[speaker001:] Sure.
[Mary:] for October, I think, when I was up at the hospital and it was down not I was below....
[speaker001:] Whoops!
[speaker003:] Sod it!
[Mary:] Not
[speaker001:] Pressure is alright.
[Mary:] Up in the hospital the girl
[speaker001:] Ah.
[Mary:] told me it was down.
[speaker001:] Och, heat.... You don't want to listen to what these women tell you.
[Mary:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker001:] .... [whispering] And that's []... a hundred and seventy, which is what you would expect for your age.... A hundred and seventy over eighty.
[Mary:] Mm.
[speaker001:] It can't be any better than that. Can't be any better than that.
[Mary:] I thought that maybe what was making me feel a bit dizzy?
[speaker001:] No. No.
[Mary:] No?
[speaker001:] No. No.... Not that. Not that, that's as near perfect as
[Mary:] Also
[speaker001:] most people get. It's near perfect, it makes no difference. N never been perfect
[Mary:] Aye.
[speaker001:] in your life, but you're nearly perfect
[Mary:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] you're nearly perfect now. Right. Let's stop with this and this for you as well.... Now... I've given you er a tablet to take Mary, it's the, it's a one that they've used in fact down at the Pain Clinics, these special Pain
[Mary:] At the what?
[speaker001:] The Pain Clinic, at the, at the Monklands and at the Royal.
[Mary:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] Now, there's a stuff in it that'll help to dry up the catarrh as well.
[Mary:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] You'll feel the inside of your mouth dry up.
[Mary:] My mouth's awful dry and my lips and
[speaker001:] Yes. That's right. Right.
[Mary:] and I thought I'd
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[Mary:] I thought I knew, I knew with it I couldn't wear my bottom teeth all week because of the ulcers right beside near the bottom of my gum.
[speaker001:] Right.... right. That's.
[Mary:] Fed up with myself not being well.
[speaker001:] Oh, you get yourself looking at yourself. Indeed.
[Mary:] Mm.
[speaker001:] Indeed you do. [LAUGHTER] You get fed up working at the cos you have no day in it []. [LAUGHTER]
[Mary:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker001:] But er, no, definitely not your blood pressure causing any problem
[Mary:] That's good.
[speaker001:] Mary, no....
[Mary:] No, cos I'm taking the faithfully.
[speaker001:] Yes. Och aye, it's definitely nowt to do with that. Now what about? Are you using any of your?
[Mary:] No. I've got, you gave me some last time and I'd got them the week before, so I've got enough.
[speaker001:] So you've got enough in the house just now, Mary,
[Mary:] I
[speaker001:] right?
[Mary:] I would like er a prescription
[speaker001:] ? Aye.
[Mary:] I've got the spare tablets but I mean getting the prescription.
[speaker001:] Aye. Well as long as you've got enough to keep you going, that's that's
[Mary:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] the main thing. But there's no terrible worries
[Mary:] Hey?
[speaker001:] no terrible worries. You're gonna live for a wee while yet.
[Mary:] [LAUGHTER] Thank you [].
[speaker001:] Aye.
[Mary:] My grandson asked me the other morning, when was I gonna die?
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]
[Mary:] [LAUGHTER] Oh, I'll tell you, it doesn't make me feel good or [].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] You should've told them []
[Mary:] Oh.
[speaker001:] ten years on Friday.
[Mary:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Ten years on Friday. Right Mary.
[Mary:] Thanks very much.
[speaker001:] Right. Cheerio now.
[Mary:] Cheerio.