I’ve not got dementia but my spelling and grammar may I feel like that because I have to dictate it because my vision is not good and my hands are painful hands. I can only

do it on my phone now

This morning I spent a long time filling in a questionnaire from a major London Hospital where I’m going to have surgery.

There were nine pages beginning with assessing your heart health.

Each page that up to 9 questions on it so there are quite a lot. I had to ring the British heart Foundation to get some information

About halfway through came the brain and the nervous system

And one of the questions was

Do you have dementia?

How on earth would you have got to that point when it’s involved answering about 30 questions about other organs of your body?

Would it not make more sense to ask patience on page one whether they’ve got dementia?

They also s want us to list all medication. If you have dementia that will probably be very difficult and most likely some of it will be wrong with any of us because we’re all challenged by cognitive decline boredom impatience and rage. We didn’t live all these years to have the world in the current situation where mad men can start wars on a whim.

It would be so much quicker to do it in person with a doctor or a nurse.

Why is everything being done by remote means when the pandemic is over?

Don’t they realise that it’s much harder to cope with illness and surgery when you never see the doctors and you won’t see the surgeon you will be unconscious.

I’m really looking forward to being unconscious as I’ve been on this track since September 2025 and it was March 2026 before I got a CT scan.

Because of the illness I am very exhausted most of the time it’s not a lot of fun.

And there must be thousands of people like me all over the country.

I told them at the beginning

Just take the damn thing out.

I feel very sorry for my kidney but it’s causing me a lot of trouble and unfortunately I can’t take it out myself.