It's a bit late to tell me I should have been shielding!

[Toddlerteaplease]

Got a letter sent to shielding people with the new advice on it. Except I wasn't shielding as I never got the first letter and didn't think I was particularly high risk. (I have MS) I've worked as a nurse the whole way through. (With a risk assessment though) I think the horse has already bolted!

I got the first letter and numerous texts, but have not had the letter ending it all - it all seems a bit of a mess :/

I'm the same. Diabetic. Which apparently are one of the most vulnerable. People keep asking if I'm shielding. I can't even get a Sainsbury's delivery! Nope, I've continued as normal, working from home and occasionally popping into an empty office in a factory that is closed!

I have MS too. Diagnosed 21 years ago but never taken any medication for it. I still thought I'd be in the shielding group but got no letter. I rang the MS society as I don't have an MS nurse and they advised that I didn't need to shield due to not having ever taken any meds. My employers sent me to WFH immediately though as MS was on the list of conditions THEY deemed to be at risk.
Maybe you were in this category and the 2nd letter is a mistake?

Stopgo I'm sorry for your loss

Stopgo I am so sorry for your sad loss

@2Rebecca the monthly bloods are for 5 years after the last infusion. That is the protocol and it is made very clear that it's compulsory. It's because of what they do to the immune system, they need to be sure it's recovering in the way it's meant to. It's bloody good stuff. It's made an enormous difference for me.

I got Boris letter he sent to every household to tell us to stay home with etc the day he lifted restrictions. Lol 😂 Royal Mail have been particularly bad in our area.

DH checked with his consultant back in March and was told he didn’t need to shield, a month later he got a shielding letter but had worked the whole time (job involves going into customers’ houses).

The whole situation has been very slack, and the advice to shield from the people you live with is impossible to follow.

I think it has been a cock up for a lot of us.

I have type one diabetes (very well managed), I also have very little functioning spleen, I’m also Asian. I didn’t get a shielding letter so continued going out and about but I didn’t go into shops.

Then a little while ago distanced rugby training started so I was doing that twice a week, then I met a few friends outdoors when it was allowed and formed a shielding bubble so I could take my son to his grandmas for the weekend.

On Friday, as in last Friday I received a shielding text 🤦🏽

I got my shielding letter at the end of April. Then I got 2 more a week later.
I am pretty clued up about my condition and had read a lot of general information about the criteria, so I have been shielding since March anyway.
Luckily I had already got my shopping arrangements sorted, so I didn't need my letter to get delivery slots etc.
I think the majority of people who need to shield would know that, maybe a minority who have no contact with their consultant or GP/nurse might not realise.
The postal system via the NHS has always been slow IME.

Oh stopgo. That is really awful. I am so sorry for your loss.

Possibly a clinical error, Some of our local hospitals where adding people to Shielded list on a basic search, I.e. all asthma/copd/respiratory problems when in fact It was severe asthma/copd etc. They kind of kept making general searches and adding people that way which the GP surgery then has to go through and agree with or downgrade to mod or low risk.
Perhaps you had slipped through.

@AnimalCrossing

I got Boris letter he sent to every household to tell us to stay home with etc the day he lifted restrictions. Lol 😂 Royal Mail have been particularly bad in our area.

No one on this household got that at all!

Our HR department only “allow” people to stay home if they have an official letter. We had a few people who had said “I have X so I’m self isolating” or even “my partner has X so I’m self isolating” but when asked to provide medical support they all came into work......

We’ve had no identified or suspected cases of the virus in any of our staff or pupils.

Diabetics seem to be at very high risk. I wonder why they weren’t told to shield?