Guilt Free Railing 5

[WouldBeGood]

Just in case railing remains required.

It depends where they live @Lockdownbear. Through my work I see many people with mental illness who are cared for in establishments where no visitors are allowed. Be that supported flats, care homes or hospitals.

And people bring moved to stay in places neither they nor their families have seen, nor met staff. No transition or viewings, cos Covid. It’s brutal. And people becoming much more unwell because all their normal support services were withdrawn overnight. Leaving people totally alone. I’m quite good at detaching from work, but it’s made me cry this year.

I assumed supported flats would be classed as a single household therefore be under the rules for support bubbles, rather than be under the care home rules of no visitors.

Their country lets each area decide on whether they have a problem and need to close so the whole country isn't affected.

Ooh this, this is where I want to live.

They have high rates of Covid but big difference is they spend way more on healthcare so have many more hospitals and medical staff than we do so there's hasn't had to be this big need to close everything to protect hospitals from being overwhelmed.

For me this is absolutely key. It's not just about having enough surge capacity. If they don't have spare capacity I don't see how they can manage infection control properly. Then you end up self perpetuating the problem via the hospitals.

In fact starting to suspect the reason for not opening up is because the hospital system will not cope with the pent up demand from all the healthcare on hold. New Zealand has No Covid but news reports yesterday of overwhelmed hospitals due to unprecedented demand from people having delayed treatment out of fear. Also lack of GPs from having an over reliance on imported doctors and having closed borders.

I can see an argument to vaccinate vulnerable DC but once adults are fully vaxxed surely it makes more sense for DC to gain natural exposure to all the thousands of variants currently in circulation while they are young enough to be mostly symptom free? Unless we are still pursuing zero Worldwide or permanently closed borders.

LockdownBear, yes, my friend who is blind does have family support bubble, but I feel this has all knocked their confidence.

I would like to know what they’re doing to prepare the NHS to cope better with any repeat.

I was completely fed up of NS being on my telly every day but now I'm feeling like we've been left in the dark in a fairly important time in the pandemic. That's my rail of today!

And people bring moved to stay in places neither they nor their families have seen, nor met staff. No transition or viewings, cos Covid. It’s brutal. And people becoming much more unwell because all their normal support services were withdrawn overnight. Leaving people totally alone. I’m quite good at detaching from work, but it’s made me cry this year.

That is brutal.
I can’t get my head around these hardcore- without logic- policies which have impacted those who need the most help.

@WouldBeGood

I would like to know what they’re doing to prepare the NHS to cope better with any repeat.

Yeah I think we're going to have to have a " grown up conversation " about health funding going forward. NHS couldn't cope with a pandemic. If we're going to have to live with Covid we need more hospital beds. Can't cancel all other healthcare every winter!

@ssd I have asthma but not severe, 34 in age.
Monitoring my oxygen levels at the moment they are dropping but I'm very glad I bought an oximeter. Trying to do breathing exercises to help

I'd think the NHS needs to have a good look at what it can and cannot fund.
I also think they need to train and retain more staff and have more beds.

A 4% pay rise won't actually help increase capacity within the system.

Agreed @Lockdownbear.

A root and branch review would be good, along with openness about the costs and taxes necessary to fund it all.

And they’d better open up or there will be no taxes to pay for it at all.

Sorry to hear your news Scottishskifun

Non allergenic

Talking about nhs. I've had a text in place of baby ds 16 week visit.

@shouldistop

Talking about nhs. I've had a text in place of baby ds 16 week visit.

That’s appalling.

It's a good job this isn't my first rodeo

Hope your feeling better soon @Scottishskifun and really hope your dh stays well so he can look after the toddler 😊

That's nuts not to be doing proper visits to babies and mums.

Actually they'd be better getting new mums to go to a clinic with the baby. Often new mums can be subject to abuse, or PND, and that's maybe not something they'll talk about in the house while their partner is in the house.

According to nhs site they should be weighed at 16 weeks. No weighing clinics open and when I took him to the health clinic for some jabs a few weeks ago they said they don't have any baby scales in the clinic- I'm not sure that's true tbh, he's going for his 16 week jabs next week maybe I'll ask again.
I think he's gaining weight but he had a tongue tie for the first few weeks, he has reflux and another minor condition that can affect feeding and weight gain, plus he's breast fed so I have absolutely no idea how much milk he has.

He had what I think was a stomach bug last month, he had diarreah for 2 weeks, his nappies were light but the GP didn't want to see him as he was taking extra feeds so he was sure he'd be fine. I was so surprised that he didn't want to see a 3 month old with signs of dehydration. Anyway he obviously was fine, I just kept feeding and his nappies are much heavier now.

That's my railing for the day. No HV or GPs were harmed in the typing of it

That’s really terrible @shouldistop.

Imagine if you’re a first time mother. It must be so bloody hard.

I got so much support from other mothers I met at baby group and sometimes just from bumping into regularly at the clinics

Oh and my 4yo was apparently meant to have a pre-school check which he's not getting.

A bit of joined up thinking, when the babies are going for the 16week jags, have their HV take them into a different room and do the 16week assessment.

I don't know why they don't do that in the first place?

My 4yos preschool check is getting done over the phone. Pointless exercise if you ask me. I'll assume if there are any issues they'll spot them at nursery.

Over the phone!

I’m really despairing about all this.

Think of the children who’ll be missed at these crucial stages.

I know, I don't get it at all.