ADs skipping to school - and that's only the parents

[RealityExistsInTheHumanMind]

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Place marking - thanks very much for the new thread!

Skipping off in new coat, waving shiny pencil case

Placemarking (although I’ve been very quiet lately).

Hello! Or, in the spirit of going back to school, perhaps we should have a greeting chanted en masse, like when I was at junior school (said very slowly)
"Good mor.....niiiiing...Anti-demennnnntors, good mor....niiiiing ev....ry.....bo....dyyyyy!"

I didn't see DS go off (must do better with the sleeping & getting up on a day off). But there is a cloud of Lynx Africa lingering about the landing so he has made an effort!

Thinking of everyone still at home for whom things aren't moving on. I know what it's like to hear about everyone else going about their business when you yourself are stuck.

Checking in, new name for new thread .

Hope everyone is ok. Lots of DCs wandering up my road today for the start of school.

Hi everyone 😁

Morning all. Checking into the new thread.

@TheOrchidKiller

Hello! Or, in the spirit of going back to school, perhaps we should have a greeting chanted en masse, like when I was at junior school (said very slowly) "Good mor.....niiiiing...Anti-demennnnntors, good mor....niiiiing ev....ry.....bo....dyyyyy!"

I didn't see DS go off (must do better with the sleeping & getting up on a day off). But there is a cloud of Lynx Africa lingering about the landing so he has made an effort!

Thinking of everyone still at home for whom things aren't moving on. I know what it's like to hear about everyone else going about their business when you yourself are stuck.

When mine was a teen the smog of lynx would have caused more respiratory issues than covid im sure!

Thanks for the new thread.

Lynx would be an improvement for DS - he's regularly been getting quite stinky and has to be chased into showers and clean clothes by rest of us.

Checking in. Mine aren’t back at school until next Tuesday! There will be ‘thank fucks’ all round when they do go back though.

In the meantime, I have to mask up to buy school shoes this lunchtime and throw my children back at my DH to run to a site meeting. Thankfully site meeting and shoe shop are in the same town centre.

Morning - checking in. School drop off was rather dementory with lots of "I don't think they'll be back long" doom and gloom - but the kids went in happily... lots didn't mind - the ones I expected to kick off and be starting to slip toward school refusal didn't disappoint on that front - and we had the usual mum on the warpath storming into the office already as she'd shown up late and wasn't allowed to take her child around to class personally (she's always raging at the school though - nice person but fucking exhausting).

Not the first day at school we had planned for poor DD2 but the best we could get - and for all the show of "we have a 2m line the teachers cannot cross to help"... they were guiding kids with hands on shoulders to get them into the classroom - so totally pointless theatre!

Oh yeah and GP has upped my medication again - I've gone from being positive to the point of considering coming off antidepressants to taking so many of them I'll rattle when I jump! Only thanks to fucking Covid but mental health doesn't matter.

GP's attitude when I said I was able to function now was "let's see if we can get you more than that out of life"

Checking in. Lots of smiley faces at the school. One of the upper school came back with bright pink hair so that definitely made things feel cheery.

@DominaShantotto

Oh yeah and GP has upped my medication again - I've gone from being positive to the point of considering coming off antidepressants to taking so many of them I'll rattle when I jump! Only thanks to fucking Covid but mental health doesn't matter.

GP's attitude when I said I was able to function now was "let's see if we can get you more than that out of life"

@DominaShantotto

GP's attitude when I said I was able to function now was "let's see if we can get you more than that out of life"

Thank goodness that some GPs still care about mental health

Hello, I haven't been around in a while, but here I am!

My kids have been back since mid-August, and off once for tiny to have a test (damn cough with cold while the school hummed and hawed over what to do)

The house is very quiet, and I no longer have a reason for doing a half-assed job...

Domina, I'm surviving on St John's Wort and alcohol. My depression and anxiety is mainly fuelled by my job, but apparently I should think myself lucky that I still have a job, I'm not allowed to moan about it.

Don't know what will come first, a positive outcome to one of the many applications I've sent out, or a trip to the doctor.

checking in. Not great here either to be honest. Ds starts school on the 14th. Hes got a settling in session next Wednesday which i have had fuck all information about so i'm not over the moon with that.

Everything still up in the air about the wedding and to top it off dp is now refusing to talk about it at all so thats just fucking brilliant. Feel like cancelling the whole thing and telling him to fuck off tbh.

Hi all - checking in. Still managing to keep up with most of the reading!

Had a debacle with the GP yesterday. I hardly ever go to the GP but for the last week+ have had bad sore throat and tightness in my chest and the middle of my back. Coughing occasionally to clear what feels like an obstruction. Went for a covid test on Monday as I knew that would be the first thing the GP would suggest. Negative result as expected.

Rang GP Tuesday. Telephone appointment only - no problem. Wednesday afternoon some time between 2 & 5.30pm, couldn't give me a time. GP rang yesterday. Concerned about the chest tightness - could be a respiratory infection or asthma (not a previous sufferer), might need antibiotics or an inhaler. Thinks I should see someone. Will book me in the duty doctor. Cue silence on the line. She can't find who the duty doctor is or if there are any appointments available, sorry. She will refer me to the Hub. The receptionist will ring me with an appointment.

Receptionist rings. Apologises. Doctor at the Hub wants to ring and speak with me before she makes an appointment. 10 minutes later doctor from Hub rings. Seeks to reassure me that even though I am probably worried about my Covid result being one of the 1 in 3 false negatives, I'm probably ok. I reply, I don't think I've got Covid, I'm not worried. GP thinks someone should listen to my chest to check.

Asks lots of questions, decides it probably is a virus of some kind but I should be on my guard because it could still be Covid even though I've had a negative test and if I get worse I should contact them again because they're 'here for me' (yes, she really said that)

So that's that. Chest still very tight and wheezy, coughing up phlegm, feeling some fatigue so unable to run or weight train as I normally do.
What a waste of time and effort on everyone's part!

I think I see private health insurance in my future ....

DD1 starting singing lessons tonight as well - think the lady teaching has gone a bit perspex box-tacular but I understand why as she has health issues and was very worried about catching Covid - plus of course singing now is the absolute devil's work and if it takes a perspex box... meh.

Checking in

DS Started school for the first time yesterday. Was mightily relieved to see all the children in his taster session group go in together and come out together with reassuring physical contact (i.e. hand on back) from the teacher and TA.

Social distancing between parents was standard for the situation in that we didn't know anyone else so we were at a usual distance from a stranger than one would expect at any time! But nobody freaking out about it or looking in the least concerned.

So relieved he isn't going into a weird tiny bubble with no physical playing with new friends or any of that.

Hello all, checking in. On the final countdown to school here, mine doesn't go back until Tuesday next week. Hopefully it will all go smoothly.

My eldest has had his school ski trip cancelled. They weren’t going to val d’isere and licking Italians in cable cars.

I shall instead use the money for my MOT.

Living my best life!

Great thread title @RealityExistsInTheHumanMind I'm mentally skipping along with all you parents of school age kids. Hope they're all having a fab time and settling in well. We just have to keep outsmiling the D's - we'll wear them down eventually!

My eldest has had his school ski trip cancelled. They weren’t going to val d’isere and licking Italians in cable cars.

They postponed DS france and DD1 London trips at first till summer 2021 then canceled them.

DH thought at the time it might be because of insurance not paying out now due to covid cancellations or fears the companies booked with might go under in mean time.

IL couch trip holiday company went under though it was bought out quickly their trips was still cancelled though. They didn't mind once they got the money back as many hours in a face mask sat on coach didn't appeal.

I'm trying to save the refund so if trips do come back at the scond in following years I can say yes quicker in futue or yes to more than one child and one trip.