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My Battle Royale with the medical insurance company!!

  My sincerest apologies to everyone who took my recommendation to use "Travelinsurance4medical.com" and my glowing reports of how good they are - I was misinformed! I had an annual policy costing £380 or so. It had seven weeks left to run. A week before my trip I called them to tell them I was waiting for a cardioversion for my Atrial Fibrillation which has returned. No problem they said - you need to pay an extra £350 to cover you for those remaining weeks!!!!! Obviously, I said that it was ludicrous and I was only going away for a week but "computer says... blah…blah ". He then offered to sell me a one-week policy - only to find I am now uninsurable!! So then I asked if I would get a refund on the remaining seven weeks of my policy: "No, because we are not cancelling it" "But I'm not covered anymore?" "No" "So, you are not insuring me nor refunding me" "No, it's your choice not to pay the extr...
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AN update (mid-December to late-January)

  2026! Happy New Year, dear Reader, There is always something about a new year to lift the spirits – most of all, if you are an incurable list-maker and archivist like me, then there is a shiny new Exercise Log to record all my workouts PLUS a diary to record the minutiae of my dull life!   Nowadays it is called ‘journalling’ and is said to be very therapeutic.   I certainly let my feelings out in my diary – it is often peppered with heart-felt comments and extremely bad language! ( If you have never read this Blog before than all you need to know is that I am an ATRIAL FIBRILLATION WARRIOR – in the last 6.5 years I have had four catheter ablations to stop Afib plus a surgical ablation (Minimaze) for the same reason plus 13 DCCV (cardioversions) to stop and restart the heart in correct rhythm.   I’ve also been in hospital another five times with Afib, some of which reverted with chemical intervention and a couple that self-reverted.   My Afib (before ab...
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Why me? Why HHT? Why Afib? IT'S NOT FAIR!

  Why? Why? Why? It’s not fair – why have we got Atrial Fibrillation and/or HHT? The latter is simple – genetics – it’s a hereditary condition as the name Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) suggests.   On the NHS website it describes it as follows “HHT is an inherited genetic disorder that affects the blood vessels . It's also known as Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome.”   Now what about Afib?   Now this is a bit more complicated.   The major risk factors are as follows:        ·          increasing age ·          high blood pressure ·          obesity ·          heart disease (like heart failure, valve issues, CAD) ·          diabetes ·          excessive alcohol ·   ...
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