girlofprey

Here's the thing about the election - I can understand people not voting for Labour, because they and Ed Miliband were never very impressive. But I can't understand people voting for the Conservatives. Like - why? They were so evil. People hated them so much.

Anyway. Question number one on my mind is: will they keep the five-year term? Because it used to be four years, and they extended it to five supposedly to 'let the coalition settle in together'. Which obviously isn't a concern now. I absolutely expect they won't change it, but by their own logic they pretty clearly should.

There was a crash at the end of my street about an hour ago. The air ambulance was circling ominously overhead - our local hospital was shut down a few years ago, leaving just a bare bones A&E. They never landed, and when the person was loaded into a stretcher the ambulance didn't seem in a hurry to leave. Hope they're alright.

Went to the doctors - he was actually super nice about everything. I'm on a stronger dose of my medication now, but because of that when I take it I can only take it twice a day - given that my bad days tend to be whole day long affairs, that might mean it doesn't overall do much for me, but we'll see. He seemed to think that being stressed out from pain means you end up in more pain, so maybe a stronger painkiller to begin with will help.

He also said to wait for the results of my test tomorrow before I make any further appointments to discuss my unusual bleeding, so that's in hand I guess. He didn't seem to think any of the symptoms I talked about were particularly 'sinister', so that's quite reassuring, just have to have the tests and see if anything comes of them. I've got my pills and I've had a bath so I'm all set up for it now.

Also voted, although I'm not sure it really matters, my seat's pretty safe. Only UKIP can challenge them, claim the UKIP leaflets! I sincerely hope UKIP doesn't challenge them. I'm vaguely interested in the results tomorrow, but most people seem to think nothing will really be decided for at least a few days anyway.