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I went to see the GP early last Friday - mostly because no one had contacted me about the prescription that we found had been waiting at the front desk for almost three weeks for me to pick up. But anyway, now I have a prescription for drugs, and a reference to go see a gastro specialist, whose earliest appointment available at a time that I can go is in December. If I wanted to not go to work, I could get an appointment in late November. But the prescription I got will last until around that time.

But it's an endoscopy that they're threatening me with, not a colonoscopy. Much less painful, as long as I remember to breathe, and the anaesthetic doesn't wear off too fast because they gave me a dosage measured for my weight, not my metabolism.

I hate the anaesthetic wearing off too early. It's nasty.

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To all people who spend time packing things:

Stickytape is not a substitute for good packing. Copious amounts of tape wrapped around a heavily bubble-wrapped object do not help to hold it together better than a small amount used properly. It just makes it damned hard to unwrap, and ruins parts of the bubble wrap when I can't pull the stuff off without busting the bubbles.

Expensive large heavy-duty plastic bags are not a substitute for proper packing materials (like bubble wrap and foam) that are cheaper, work better, and are reusable.