A few weeks ago I received a collection of pain assessment questionnaires from the Neuromodulation service at the hospital. They had obviously been through several iterations of photocopying from photocopies before compiling into the scanned copy I was sent and were quite hard to read in places. I can’t decide if it was the professional in me concerned about the quality of forms used in the hospital, or just my OCD creeping through, but I felt compelled to do something about it. So after creating a slightly cleaner version, I completed the assessment and returned it. I had been warned of a significant wait, but on Friday I got a message to say I have an appointment in early September. It will be interesting to find out more about it, and what, if indeed I’m suitable for it, I might expect in terms of pain improvement or management.