Have you talked to your GP, your doctor about it? Well I've only had one, one sort of discussion with a GP. I went with a different problem totally and while I was there, she mentioned my weight and actually it was one of the most unsatisfactory experiences I've ever had because she had somebody, a trainee doctor in the room and I felt she'd just put that question into our consultation just as a, an example of good practice or something and she, she asked me a couple of quick questions and I explained to her that I did eat well but time was a factor when it came sometimes, time could be my undoing as well and she just said to me, Well, you know, if you make a small change like take a salad to work And I felt quite insulted really because she, I'd only ever seen her a couple of times before. I didn't feel she knew anything about me and I know it's a doctor's duty to point out overweight, but I just felt it was like a tokenistic really. You know, because I'd just explained to her that where at that point I had fallen down on my lunch meals and it was because each day I was driving from one side of town to the other teaching in community settings and I was eating as I was driving and I thought if she'd have listened to that she'd hear what I was saying that a) it wasn't generally my lunches that were a problem b) to eat a salad while you're driving is, you know, not, not at all sensible and c) she totally ignored the bit about, you know, the chocolate and the snacks which is, was the key. So, it, it felt like, you know, I've read a little bit since about how doctors should intervene with patients. And how should they? Well they say it's all about the language you use but I honestly believe that most GPs nowadays do not have the time. I think full stop they don't have the time so if, if they feel it's important then it's up to their surgery or their health area to organise something where people can go to people who have got the time to spend. I just think it's, you know, we're, we're told as patients, don't bring a second symptom, a second problem into a five or ten minute appointment and then the doctor brings something in like that which is huge in an older person, weight person's life. Huge thing and to think that anything a doctor might say like that, you know, about small changes or habits it's scratching the surface.

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I did have a bit of distortion I'd forgotten about, and I phoned down to the hospital and spoke to the consultant. And she says, I want to see you &ndash it was I think a Friday, this was – Monday morning at nine o'clock And she says, If you could get the optician to have a quick look at your eyes just for - if there was anything else wrong, to clear anything else out, not an eye test There you are, I'd forgotten about that. Which I did, my optician. I think twice, I must have had a slight distortion. Now it's coming back. But then it's, what, two and a half years since I started with it. And he always gave me a quick appointment too, before I got down too, that was when she always gave me another scan. That's, sorry, it's coming back to me. I got the initial scan and the twice where I felt a bit of distortion in my eye, I then got other scans. But that's quite a while ago. And you also got - continuing the theme of speedy appointments - your optician, another member of your healthcare team who works in a completely different setting, was also somebody that gave you quick appointments? Yes. Actually, when I went, the first time it was to get an eye test and I said to him that I had giant cell arteritis, he got his book out and read up on it. He says, [laughs] I don't think I've had anybody else in that has said that So that was when I had a bit of eye distortion, but I haven't had that for a long, long time.