Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Excess deaths high, covid symptoms mild" video.

  1. I had a cold in the run up to Xmas, and covid in January following attendance at a family funeral. The cold was far worse. Covid symptoms were just a foggy brain and tiredness for about 10 days. I know they were different because I took covid tests both times. I have had all covid vaccinations. I lost 2 sisters and a brother in law in the last 3 months of 2022. My sisters were twins aged 83. One had been ailing for a few months without a proper diagnosis. She ended up in hospital with covid but she also had other infections and they thought she might have stomach cancer as she'd not been able to eat for a while, but she was never tested for that before she died. The death cert said she died of 'old age' and pneumonia. This was in Wales. To my mind there was some neglect or slowness of response to her symptoms. The other sister died of non-hodgkins lymphoma. She had been treated for it previously (about a year or so prior) and thought all was o.k. She went into hospital for some check up and they would not let her leave saying she had 2 weeks to live, and she died 2 weeks later. This was in Birmingham. I am being treated now for a spread of breast cancer. When I noticed a tumour on the site just above where I'd had breast cancer before, I raised it with a GP who, without examining it, said 'it looks like a lump of fat'. I was so humiliated I did not go back to discuss it again for a year. After I did go back another doctor at the GP's surgery thought it wasn't cancer. She was disappointed that she could not book me for a diagnostic check later than 2 weeks. She told me to tell the hospital, when they rang, that my appointment 'was not urgent'. Fortunately the hospital sent me a 2 week appointment by letter and it turned out it was cancer. The operation was delayed for 4 months by covid lockdowns but the tumour was shrunk by medication in that time. The tumour was removed but no further treatment was given other than the tumour shrinking tabs. 3 years later the cancer had spread to my liver and a rib. This was in London. I just wonder whether the financial pressures on the NHS have a lot to do with excess deaths but some GPs could do with some extra training, I think. The GPs I saw had a lot of experience and one was the lead partner in the practice.
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  2.  @char377  Thanks.
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