[Agnes:] Ah. I wish I
[speaker002:] Hello!
[Agnes:] I wish I could do that.
[speaker002:] Oh.... Well, what can I do for you today, Agnes?
[Agnes:] I'll tell you. I don't know if it's old age or not, oh, it's getting worse.... I've been, I can't even fasten my bra at the back.
[speaker002:] Bad as that?
[Agnes:] That's.... Actually I've got, I've got er Oruval. And I take that for that sciatica.
[speaker002:] Mhm. Mm.
[Agnes:] Is that good for that? No?
[speaker002:] No.
[Agnes:] See I didn't, I, I, and he gave me, I was here, oh I don't know if it was about a fortnight ago I was here. Anyway I wasn't well. It
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Agnes:] was my ear. Was it you I s no it wasn't you I seen about my ear, was it?
[speaker002:] Fortnight ago?
[Agnes:] See I no, a fortnight, how long ago was it?
[speaker002:] I saw you about nearly five weeks ago. In fact more than that.
[Agnes:] No. No it was after that. It was after that I seen somebody. It was Doctor, was it Doctor?
[speaker002:] . Aye.
[Agnes:] I just took whoever I could, cos I said I'll take er and it was Doctor
[speaker002:] Right.
[Agnes:] and er it was my ear.
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Agnes:] And, and this, I j er I just wasn't well. I said
[speaker002:] Right.
[Agnes:] I don't know. Do you think it's the change of life that's me?
[speaker002:] No!
[Agnes:] Because I just don't keep well.
[speaker002:] Er
[Agnes:] And I'm taking right. And they're coming... I don't think I'm taking for a couple of months, and then I take them every fortnight.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Agnes:] And they're kind of lasting. If you know what I mean they're la do you think that is? It's going away?
[speaker002:] Right. That, that could that could be it disappearing....
[Agnes:] Hopefully it is.... But as I say, I've er but somebody says to me, they've go here I go again, talking about what everybody says they've got. They said they've got that Brufen, for this? This... arm.
[speaker002:] N No. No.
[Agnes:] Is that not for that either?
[speaker002:] No that's, that's all, that's for arthritis.
[Agnes:] Is it?
[speaker002:] That's a neuralgia. That's a neuralgia
[Agnes:] Could it, do you
[speaker002:] pain you've got.
[Agnes:] Do you think that
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Agnes:] do you think it's
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Agnes:] a neuralgia pain?
[speaker002:] That's a neuralgia pain you've got, that's... Brufen wouldn't make much difference to that Agnes. Still in?
[Agnes:] Yeah,.... Er, oh, it's, see actually I wondered if it was a frozen shoulder? I thought that if, you know how sometimes
[speaker002:] No no.
[Agnes:] you, see when I, I cannae turn,
[speaker002:] That's
[Agnes:] see when I go I, I cannae
[speaker002:] You wouldn't be able to do that if you had a frozen shoulder.
[Agnes:] Wouldn't I?
[speaker002:] No.
[Agnes:] I can, I can actually get it to there, but see when I
[speaker002:] Aye, well, if you had a frozen shoulder you wouldn't get it past there.
[Agnes:] Well, I can get it past there but I couldn't lift it up.
[speaker002:] That's right.
[Agnes:] There's no way I can lift it up.
[speaker002:] No, that's
[Agnes:] Now this one, now, I can go like that.
[speaker002:] Mhm. That's right.
[Agnes:] You know, this one's all
[speaker002:] That's right.
[Agnes:] And it seems to be more in this just one place.
[speaker002:] Mhm....?
[Agnes:] Oh....
[speaker002:] See if I do that? And
[Agnes:] Ah! [cry of pain]
[speaker002:] Is that the good bit?
[Agnes:] Yeah, that's
[speaker002:] That's the good bit.... That's, that's where the nerve comes up near the skin. Just down here.
[Agnes:] Is it?
[speaker002:] And then it goes
[Agnes:] Yeah, that
[speaker002:] down the front of your shoulder,
[Agnes:] See,
[speaker002:] right down.
[Agnes:] Right well you see I would have thought if you'd have done it there, that would have been, but no, but see when you
[speaker002:] That's it. That's it all there.
[Agnes:] Right in there?
[speaker002:] Right in there.... Now... this is the latest stuff from the... the hospital... for killing the neuralgia.
[Agnes:] Is it?
[speaker002:] Mm.... Now, no more than three of these in a day, and you must stay on it for at least a month.
[Agnes:] Right.
[speaker002:] A whole month, Agnes.
[Agnes:] Are you giving me a month's supply?
[speaker002:] Mhm. Yeah.
[Agnes:] Cos, how much, four seventy five now for a prescription, is
[speaker002:] Yeah, well
[Agnes:] it not? It's
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Agnes:] it's not so bad when you get one,
[speaker002:] [cough]
[Agnes:] but see when you get two? Or
[speaker002:] Three.
[Agnes:] er it's terrible. Cos I had my er line, it's due up
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Agnes:] er... on, and I'll tell you another thing I've been taking. Well, the easiest one to show you is there. All over my body.
[speaker002:] Spots I see.
[Agnes:] See it? I've a bit more. I don't know if I've... one up there?
[speaker002:] Yeah. Aye.
[Agnes:] Erm and my leg and that, but I don't know if that was through stress. It's not bad.
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Agnes:] But that's just been coming
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Agnes:] out on me lately.
[speaker002:] That's right. That's just a stress reaction.
[Agnes:] It's see yeah well, did you know my mother died?
[speaker002:] No.
[Agnes:] Yeah. She died on the thirteenth of March. She was only in that new home fi five weeks.
[speaker002:] Right.
[Agnes:] Five weeks she was in it. But don't get me wrong, it wasn't a... it wasn't a... er... s tragedy as such when cos it was the
[speaker002:] No no. Oh
[Agnes:] best thing that could have happened to
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Agnes:] my mother. Because she was...
[speaker002:] She was never happy.
[Agnes:] Ah, that was. You know.
[speaker002:] It was... a, a release.
[Agnes:] It was a release because she just went down every day.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Oh aye.
[Agnes:] She went down every day.
[speaker002:] Now I want to see you in four weeks again.
[Agnes:] Oh you want to see me in four weeks?
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Agnes:] How long did you give me my certificate for?
[speaker002:] Thirteen weeks.
[Agnes:] Thirteen weeks? But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that?
[speaker002:] Thirteen weeks. But I want you to come back in four weeks. Mhm.... I want you back in four weeks.
[Agnes:] Well I didn't have to wait too long for you today.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] It's a change.
[Agnes:] [LAUGHTER] Is it? I know I keep saying to
[speaker002:] It's a change.
[Agnes:] myself [], you know er cos I'm saying I said, how many's that that's been into that doctor? And a new doctor I was talking to, I says, three went in, I says, [LAUGHTER] Hope they're all going into, doctor [].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Agnes:] [LAUGHTER] []
[speaker002:] Away and look after yourself.
[Agnes:] I think it's, I think it's er I'm just getting old, it doesn't happen. See, I'm used to doing everything myself.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Agnes:] I've always had to do everything.
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Agnes:] And... wheelbarrow,, you know and see now. I keep saying, You used to your children, but they don't do nothing for you now, don't they
[speaker002:] Not much.
[Agnes:] not?
[speaker002:] I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for them nowadays.
[Agnes:] So, four weeks?
[speaker002:] Right, see you four weeks.
[Agnes:] Er right, aye.
[speaker002:] Right Agnes.
[Agnes:] Right. Thanks
[speaker002:] Cheerio now.