On 17/06/2013 00:36, Piercefield wrote: > Cruel times. All times are cruel times, I have come to think. Another of partner's relatives, her grandfather, died only in the 1980s. Cause: pernicious anaemia. He had been diagnosed many years earlier, and put onto monthly injections. We believe that this was dropped to every two months, and then every three months - as happened to possibly the vast majority of sufferers. (Seems to have been widespread NHS cost saving.) And, indeed, continues to be standard, despite huge volumes of evidence that this is inadequate. The upset of this was not for him (partner never met him for complex reasons), but that the same health issue ripples on and on and lets people continue to suffer severely. -- Rod