The ADs get ready to rumble then have a nice cuppa tea

[BogRollBOGOF]

Watch us wreck the mike, watch us wreck the mike, watch us wreck the mike.
Psych.

Now gather nicely in groups of no more than six...
Unless you're outdoors in Wales...

Oh well, come on in whatever the laws where you are. Plenty of space in this bubble of sanity

At the age of 18, I was looking after people in a care home. I don't know how to put this nicely, but you do get used to the fact that some of them will die. All you can do is try to give them the best possible life up to that point.

Now, ICU is a bit different because some patients will make a full recovery, but at the same time, I'd expect any experienced ICU nurse/doctor to be pretty well used to (and therefore desensitised to) their patients dying. To be honest, if that didn't happen, it would probably have a detrimental effect on the care of the living - extremely upset is no frame of mind to be making important decisions in.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I’m pissed off with “ICU staff” crying and shaking because people die in ICU. In other news, dairy farmer wellies smell of shite.

😂😂😂

Checking in. Had a tough week mentally last week, every headline made me depressed.

Can I confess to loving team building away days 😄

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I’m just astounded anyone over the age of 3 takes a job in “care” and has never reconciled themselves with DEATH.

unless the ICU wards have been manned by professionals from the verruca clinic.

I had a placement in a care home at the start of my course and one of the residents became unresponsive right in the middle of lunch. Had another student on placement with me - very very privileged young and very sheltered in life girl (and a complete fucking bitch to me but that's another story). 999 was called and told staff to start CPR - so we started moving other residents to clear a path through the dining hall (and with dementia patients that could be a bit of a battle). I chipped in and helped... other student ran away and was found wailing in the staffroom (she did a lot of wailing in the staffroom - about the smell, about those who had continence problems, about the one who would smear poo on the walls - I was just like "oh yeah we've got some wall art from Edna again").

I don't think she's going to improve her attitude as she gets older and lots of the profession my course leads into were redeployed to work as healthcare assistants during the worst of the pandemic... future weeping and wailing video star there no doubt. Went into the course wanting to work with cute little kids with a lisp... has been cruelly confronted with the other end of the spectrum.

I didn't especially enjoy the placement - mainly cos I was placed with her to be fair - but there were some lovely residents there.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane every time I see one of those posts I can't help thinking that if you can't cope with people dying maybe a job in ICU isn't for you. I haven't dared post that yet though.

Yes! Surely people dying kind of comes with the territory in ICU

[quote countrygirl99]@InsaneInTheViralMembrane every time I see one of those posts I can't help thinking that if you can't cope with people dying maybe a job in ICU isn't for you. I haven't dared post that yet though.[/quote]
I feel your pain! I have to sit on my hands several times a day, and I have to control my mouth far too many times a day at work. If I wore a mask on the till I could mutter " fuckwit" under my breath and no one would know. I won't wear one on the till as by law I don't have to, but our management board says we have to if we're on the shop floor. That's more to appease the fuckwits that complained we weren't wearing them when it first became mandatory. The first day it was law, we were told it was up to us if we wanted to wear them on the shop floor, but judging by the people that complained at our store, multiplied by the number of stores altogether, there must have been a deluge of complaints to head office, I can imagine it now. Caving in to appease the masses.

@DominaShantotto my ex did jury duty on the type of trial you don’t want to attend. Case dismissed because on the final day one of the jurors “couldn’t cope”.

She was training to be a social worker. 🙄

Anecdotal I know but....one of our neighbours is a nurse at our local hospice. I finally caught up with her for a proper chat yesterday and she says the hospice is currently planning for a significant decrease in the average age of patients over the next twelve months due to missed or delayed cancer diagnosis. Basically she says they're anticipating caring for younger people who wouldn't have come near a hospice in normal circumstances, but who will now need end of life care. She also says that our local hospital is basically pretty empty at the moment & friends who nurse there (one in ICU) are quite pissed off about it. I feel almost bad posting this as I normally distrust the hell out of "My friend's cousin's neighbour who is a nurse" shite re Covid, but it has just really stuck with me.

can someone quickly tell me what an 'AD'is or an 'AD thread?' Ta

I've not bagged a Munroe in years.
Mountain Rescue are probably relieved

@BogRollBOGOF

I've not bagged a Munroe in years. Mountain Rescue are probably relieved

It would be illegal for them to rescue you because the team and helicopter pilot exceed 2 households. You’ll be left up the mountain with a broken ankle and a half-eaten cheese sarnie and it’s your own fault.

Checking in ...

I’ve left my book group (temporarily I hope) - we’re supposed to be meeting this week - it was going to be in someone’s garden but the amount of handwringing from some of the others was starting to do my head in. We are normally a group of 7 so shock horror would be breaking the rules if we all turned up. Someone made the bright (not) suggestion of having a half real/half virtual session with some people dialling in via zoom... others starting hyperventilating about whether people in the garden would be added to anyone already in the house, so would our host have to expel her family for the duration and I just snapped ... I’ve been a member of that book group for 18 years 😕

When my mum was terminally ill with cancer, what she got most upset about was not being able to do the things that made her her..like walking a friend’s guide dog, hosting a U3A group, looking after grandchildren - she said it felt like every week another part of her life was being chipped away and was gone for good...

I’m starting to understand how she felt - singing in a choir, going to the theatre, taking dd to Olympia for her Christmas treat, browsing in a bookshop and now book group - gradually nearly all my pleasures in life are being eroded - supposedly temporarily but I’m starting to doubt that.

I was at a funeral last week for one of DD’s friends - she was 18 and she’d killed herself as she could no longer see any point to life - but at least she was safe from Covid eh? So that’s what’s important...

Checkin' in

I'm here and checking RIGHT in .... hi five comrades

Please don’t Dothan That is so terribly sad.

*Pleasedontdothat rather....

@sunglassesonthetable

can someone quickly tell me what an 'AD'is or an 'AD thread?' Ta

ADs are anti dementors.

Not that we don't take the virus seriously but that we don't believe that it will kill anyone who breaks 'the roolz'. And certainly not making up our own rules and then judging others for not following our ever more draconian measures

We do believe that we can find humour in almost any situation, that there will be a time post covid and we don't have to accept that the 'new normal' is in any way normal.

We have different views and we accept that. No name calling for someone that disagrees with you. And no putting others down for seeing things differently. Plenty of support for those ground down by or worrying about how things are. Because one thing is bad it doesn't mean we can't be upset by or need sympathy for lesser things

We are intelligent enough to do our own risk assessments (which also includes thing about others that we may come into contact with) and don't accept that anyone who views it differently has any right to tell us what to do.

We also chat shit about anything and everything

...also includes thinking about others that we may come into ...

@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind

Thank you👍🏻appreciated.

10:32InsaneInTheViralMembrane

BogRollBOGOF

I've not bagged a Munroe in years.
Mountain Rescue are probably relieved grin

It would be illegal for them to rescue you because the team and helicopter pilot exceed 2 households. You’ll be left up the mountain with a broken ankle and a half-eaten cheese sarnie and it’s your own fault.

To be fair, someone in our group probably would have done something inept in the first place

@AgentCooper I have just looked up about the (suspiciously quiet) Nightingale Hospital at Excel on wiki. Up to April 24th it treated 41 patients, and was then put on standby on May 4th and has been closed ever since. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions!
@WouldBeGood Some time ago, coincidentally whilst on holiday after a flight (when I always seem to catch things) I developed the most horrible virus I have had in many years - comparable to 'flu. Lost of taste and smell, headache, extreme tiredness - the sort where you will slump down on a chair and not even get comfy before you fall asleep, and a dry cough like no other. No runny nose though. I spent a lot of our break asleep in bed. The cough was so bad I went to my gp when I got home because I couldn't breathe and I was prescribed a steroid inhaler ( another first). My health has been a bit dodgy ever since. I still suffer with extreme tiredness and I have developed a heart arrythmia. I will now be on medication for the rest of my life.
One would say Covid 19, except..... this was in May 2019, so there must be some remarkably similar viruses doing the rounds.

Thank you for the new thread - BogRollBOGOF.

DS been set quite a bit of school work (yea) and is quietly sitting in his room doing it - so I think him being in home for two weeks is going to be fine. I think he's the least bothered about leaving the house as well and as a family we've nothing planned at weekends.

Had to reschedule an appointment for DD1 becuase of it - the new appintment is only a week or so later and at a better time.

It's now 8 schools in the city had postive tests- 4 secondary so hundreds self isolating and 4 primary schools were lower numbers but persuably it's adversly affecting many working parents.

DH just informed me the delay in starting one of his course means he'll be teaching over the summer - it's completly screwed over many of the UK students with funding and given the international ones problems.

He does work over the summer but can be home more frequently and can book annual leave - they're not supposed to in teaching time but I wonder if that will be moot as otherwise he may not be able to take much of his allowance this year. I supposed DD2 will be old enough to be left all day with her siblings then if it becomes necessary. Still might be akward for our annual summer family holiday not that we've booked anything yet.

I have managed to buy neon sparklers - so will have quite a stock of sparklers and indoor/quieter fireworks and DH is getting a firepit - so bonfire night at home should be fun.

@Reedwarbler I had the same, though without the long term impacts, just after we moved to this house. We had a pretty stressful time wity DS1 running up to the move and I got made redundant a week after we moved so I decided it was so bad due to stress. Today people would nod sagely and decide it must be CV19. But it was July 2001.

I think my apple tree has haemoroids
I've had some good ones, but quite a lot are stunted and seriously underdeveloped like these.
Do I need to test it for Covid?
If anyone does know what caused it (I think some kind of pest) that would be cool. Save me a trip to the Gardening section and forgetting to check for replies 😆