My 92-year-old grandmother is in hospital because she has had anaemia since October but her silly GP hadn't said a thing until last Tuesday when my mother picked up the results of her latest analysis and saw for herself (he still wouldn't have mentioned it if my mother hadn't seen it by chance!). My grandmother had been complaining about things for ages now, but we thought it was just old age. Now it turns out that the iron in her blood is at 15 when the minimum levels are at 55 (and a maximum of 140) so it was virtually impossible for her to move at all - all her energies are practically gone! Tuesday the doctor refused to let her stay in the hospital but yesterday night we had to phone for another one to come and see her and he said that he would have left her in hospital and have her have a blood transfusion. So this morning my mum hurried to get the doctor to put her in hospital and still he refused!! Fortunately, there's a service for elderly people and my mother phoned and they acted immediately and sent an ambulance in no time at all.

Now she has been in hospital since this morning, they have been making tests and all that - she will have to get that blood transfusion but she might have a bleeding ulcer so that would really be no use - and all the doctors there agree that her GP is a fool! We haven't been able to see her, although my mum is going back there right now since it seems they're sending her to a room soon.

But I can't believe a GP didn't do anything about her anaemia. He said he hadn't because "she was just so old...". And also the iron pills he had prescribed are not good for her so they were doing more harm than good.

Hmph!!