Posted by Quintal on July 19, 2008, at 17:47:20
In reply to Re: Taking tianeptine abroad - a question » Quintal, posted by Phillipa on July 19, 2008, at 12:39:32
Yes, and the NHS is paying for it! My social worker is getting me a grant. I just have to pick the holiday and they'll foot the bill. We haven't booked anything yet, so we can work around any incovenient customs laws. I'll probably have to ask my pdoc to write a letter explaining what my medicines are for no matter where I go. I'm sure he'd give me an Rx for some co-codamol if it came to that.
We were originally planning to go to Rome, but we switched to Egypt when I got news of the grant. So it might be back to Rome, or just somewhere random like Bulgaria or Prague. Apparently it costs over £700 a day to keep someone in hospital anyway, so the social worker's argument is that a long holiday is more uplifting than a stay on the secure ward, so the money is better spent on that. It's a new 'progressive' healthcare scheme they're experimenting with. There's talk of bring back the sanatoriums and health farms because they're more therapeutic than the hospital environment.
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