September 2005. Bureacracy gone mad

I received a date for the VEP test (which I had been told "I may have") from the Manchester Royal Infirmary, but not for the lumbar puncture (which I definitely should have) at Hope Hospital.
I rang Hope. It turned out that I had never been booked in or the LP. They knew I was to have a VEP, and were waiting to hear about it from their own VEP group so that both could be booked for the same day.
"Hello, I'm not supposed to be having it with you...."
I wonder if I would ever have had the test if I'd not rung. I wish I'd rung before. I just sat waiting for 6 weeks.
They said oops, and I could have the lumbar puncture on Monday.
How different that was....