ADs may have buggered boilers but we haven't got the clap

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The saga continues to continue with more sequels than a trilogy of trilogies...

Yes, I go quite often because there's nowhere to go otherwise.

Same here. Going out is literally part of my therapy. I've barely been able to get out lately because of the snow and ice(my balance can be poor enough on regular pavement let alone in icy conditions) and it's really beginning to take its toll on my already poor mental health. The last thing I want to do is explain my conditions.

Our town centre Tesco has an upper floor but i dont often go up there with a mask on. IF (God forbid) someone does have an accident on shop stairs due to a mask there will be an outcry. With social media and a lot of people having smartphones it would take minutes to become public so wouldnt be just local news for long.

@MercyBooth

Our town centre Tesco has an upper floor but i dont often go up there with a mask on. IF (God forbid) someone does have an accident on shop stairs due to a mask there will be an outcry. With social media and a lot of people having smartphones it would take minutes to become public so wouldnt be just local news for long.

If i had enough control over my limbs, like a dancer or something, I would so be staging a fall!

@Weedsnseeds1 Hopefully because it’s glaucoma they will be a bit quicker! Mine was a routine cardiology appointment and they are renowned at the hospital here for having humongous waiting lists. Just keep pestering!

I have had a call today to say my foot surgery at the local private hospital has been cancelled, as they are “working closely with the NHS” and I should expect to wait for “months rather than weeks” It feels like the last straw ☹️

I do understand why it is necessary, but it feels like being downgraded again, a sort of third class under COVID and “people who are worse off than you”

Surgery being elective doesn’t mean you are not in significant pain and losing quality of life.

@Evenstar

I have had a call today to say my foot surgery at the local private hospital has been cancelled, as they are “working closely with the NHS” and I should expect to wait for “months rather than weeks” It feels like the last straw ☹️

I do understand why it is necessary, but it feels like being downgraded again, a sort of third class under COVID and “people who are worse off than you”

Surgery being elective doesn’t mean you are not in significant pain and losing quality of life.

They certainly have a strange definition of elective surgery. So sorry this is happening.

evenstar that's crap.
My choice was a specialist eye hospital, an opthalmology dept at a general hospital or two specialist eye clinics. The general hospital I can understand (and as its the one that had a massive COVID outbreak last year, they probably aren't trusted with non-COVID patients to infect at the moment), but an eye hospital is hardly likely to have ICU beds full of infectious patients!

My friend had elective surgery on the NHS this week. It was brought forwards, in anticipation of the hospital getting full. It's a relief for her to have it done, but a massive worry because the consultants pushed it through so fast because they can't rule out it being cancer. Worrying.

Someone mentioned disruption to the normal rhythms of life & being stressed. I've noticed this in myself- old anxieties have come back. Other people have said it too. People aren't getting enough exercise & normal human interaction, all the things that keep us well.

To lower the tone & join in with the "unusual" customers tales, DB worked in a supermarket. They had a regular customer who used to run, grab a cucumber or a marrow, & shout obscenities until the staff noticed & he got chased out of the store.

They had a regular customer who used to run, grab a cucumber or a marrow, & shout obscenities until the staff noticed & he got chased out of the store.

Well-known side-effect of handling phallic vegetables

I was prepared to pay as having been referred on the NHS last July and offered an initial appointment at the end of March 2021 (which will probably be cancelled and would only put me on another waiting list) I felt I had to do something. I feel like that choice has now been taken away as well. The private consultant thinks I have 6-12 months till there is permanent damage.

@Weedsnseeds1 I hope you get your appointment soon, in our area you have to phone for an appointment and they just cut you off if nobody is available. I had my last eye clinic appointment cancelled, it was routine and they were hoping to discharge me as they think I don’t have glaucoma after being under the clinic for three years. I am expecting the new February appointment to be cancelled any time now.

@Evenstar I am very sorry to hear this.

@Weedsnseeds1 I had an eye test end of October and needed a referral for glaucoma type issues - just had the appointments this week. In my area they called me to arrange the screening and dr appointment and these took place in a mobile unit and gp surgery. Was v happy I didn’t have to go to the hospital!

Sorry to hear about your friend @TheOrchidKiller, I do hope it isn’t bad news. My daughter’s MIL had urgent surgery to diagnose possible cancer cancelled twice before Christmas. She has now had the surgery, but the multidisciplinary team meeting to look at the results has not taken place, it is highly likely that she has terminal cancer, but has been waiting over a fortnight for that to be confirmed.

I’m in such a good mood. Both my DP’s have now had a dose of vaccine. I’m so relieved.
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Well I'm pissed off. Went to Aldi. Car park not gritted. Security guard practically stalked me round the whole shop. I heard someone else complain to the checkout lady that she felt the same but apparently he was "just doing his job". He asked someone else why he wasn't wearing a mask. I really disagree with that, you shouldn't have to give your private medical information to an unqualified man in Aldi. I'm going to complain. I rushed round so fast I forgot half what I want for.

@Evenstar, thank you. I've heard so many stories of people having treatment put on hold, but also some positives where consultants have literally sneaked patients into the building to treat them, in order to avoid red tape.

Having been left on waiting lists for months & in pain in the past, I sympathise.

@TheOrchidKiller

My friend had elective surgery on the NHS this week. It was brought forwards, in anticipation of the hospital getting full. It's a relief for her to have it done, but a massive worry because the consultants pushed it through so fast because they can't rule out it being cancer. Worrying.

Someone mentioned disruption to the normal rhythms of life & being stressed. I've noticed this in myself- old anxieties have come back. Other people have said it too. People aren't getting enough exercise & normal human interaction, all the things that keep us well.

To lower the tone & join in with the "unusual" customers tales, DB worked in a supermarket. They had a regular customer who used to run, grab a cucumber or a marrow, & shout obscenities until the staff noticed & he got chased out of the store.

This is the thing, most people use the outside world as a distraction technique, I certainly do. If I'm stressed I go lift some weights at the gym, go for a swim or see a friend at the pub for wine. All of that is gone and all I have to fill my days are homeschooling with a walk if I have the energy. My husband says I need to stop dwelling on the fact that every day is the same with nothing to do which is alright for someone who pretty much still lives their normal life.

Normally I'd run for escapism. I was supposedly doing Run Every Day January, but that just died on the announcement of lockdown. I've just used up enough mojo to get to this point and plod on now with the DCs around full time for the past 4 weeks and exercise itself isn't enough to stopper that empty feeling in my soul.
I don't want to wade through mud.
I don't want to pavement pound locally
I don't want to venture to overly busy parks/ flat river (not helped by some local antics over the concept of local)

I do dearly love my DCs. We're just better at doing stuff out of the house together and always have been. And we all need our own space to do our own thing.

Labyrinth is on Netflix for all you 80s children and/or total nerds.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Well I'm pissed off. Went to Aldi. Car park not gritted. Security guard practically stalked me round the whole shop. I heard someone else complain to the checkout lady that she felt the same but apparently he was "just doing his job". He asked someone else why he wasn't wearing a mask. I really disagree with that, you shouldn't have to give your private medical information to an unqualified man in Aldi. I'm going to complain. I rushed round so fast I forgot half what I want for.

Definitely complain.

I'm dreading the impact on TV and film. Obviously that's hugely shallow but TV is already shit because they've run out of things. What about in two years time when we are still watching re runs? No films out? Bleeeeugh.

@Lifeinaonesie

I'm dreading the impact on TV and film. Obviously that's hugely shallow but TV is already shit because they've run out of things. What about in two years time when we are still watching re runs? No films out? Bleeeeugh.

I watch a lot of TV but it's not really had an effect, though I appreciate that depends on your TV tastes.

@Evenstar Sorry to hear that

@TrustTheGeneGenie i forget stuff like that too, but in my case its because i cant wait to get the mask off.
Had to buy a new pack from Tesco yesterday as my previous box from Boots is running out and im NOT paying another £30 to £35.
On the pack its says........dont expose to rain or snow.

Have you seen the news, on travel corridors?
The "why can't we be NZ?" mob are going to be frothing at the mouth.

Oh, they already are...