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Originally Posted by garinda
Forgive my ignorance, but if assessment of your needs is so critical to your wellbeing, you mention they used to be carried out every six months, but this was reduced to an annual check, isn't it better that your care is monitered more regularly?
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Well they seem to know better than me Rindi, and the less I have to go anywhere near the hospital is fine my me. I have regular checks by my community matron and I can keep track of my own oxygen levels myself as I have an oximeter at home which tells me what my saturation levels are, if they drop bellow a certain level on a regular basis I can ring the COPD team for advice. This other assessment was nothing to do with the clinical need side of my treatment, which to me made it futile to say the least. A check on my outside the home needs can just as easily be monitored at the same time as my medical assessment, as here is a 45 minute time span when I'm sat there doing nothing, but waiting for my second blood tests after I've been on oxygen for that period of time, seems simple to me, but obviously not to the people sat in their ivory towers