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Optimist1 · 16/05/2019 17:47

That last thread filled up quickly! Here's a new one for us.

As a PP said, I can't quite forget how vile Dom was to Malik in the early days, so his rehabilitation has never made me warm to him. It looks as though his troubles aren't over, though. Carol to the rescue?

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QueenofmyPrinces · 16/10/2019 08:41

I quite liked last night’s episode.

Not to sure what was the point of the “Jac having to leave surgery to collect Emma” scene was? Don’t really understand why it was in the show, it’s not like anything happened as a result of it.... It just seemed a bit weird.

I love it that when Essie went to hand the baby over all she had was the car seat Grin If she was so concerned about Isla’s safety and Frankie’s ability to parent then I’m pretty sure she would have produced some clothes, milk and nappies too Grin

I also loved his Frankie’s taxi just happened to pull up as Essie appeared with the baby....perfect timing Grin

I didn’t like the Neurologist - I found her so rude and arrogant. And how likely is it that a doctor of her calibre can do easily leave the hospital where she works at such short notice to go and visit one of her patients in another hospital?! And how convenient she happened to be in theatre when the brain problem arose....I’m sure every specialist neurologist jumps at the chance to watch an exciting appendicectomy Grin

The realistic storylines continue.... Grin

SoupDragon · 16/10/2019 08:46

They are showing Jaq struggling with parenthood and wanting to please Emma who is obsessed by her father and his perfect wife. I guess it's building up to something or other. Emma going to live with her dad I guess and the fall out from that. They seem to be softening Jaq - showing the Elsa picture and her reaction, showing her emotional with whoever that previous lover was the other week.

SoupDragon · 16/10/2019 08:48

With the neurologist and the appendectomy, whilst it was obviously a plot device to show how good she is I suppose surgeons might find surgery outside their speciality interesting and think it's good to refresh their memory.

SoupDragon · 16/10/2019 08:49

Do the storylines have to be realistic though? There's "24 hours in A&E" for realism :)

QueenofmyPrinces · 16/10/2019 08:56

soupdragon - work in a hospital (nurse) so the stupid storylines really bug me because I know they would just never happen.

A Specialist Neurologist wouldn’t give a damn about an appendix being taken out Grin

My dad always jokes that I should stop watching it because all I I do is mean about how unrealistic it all is Grin

I do love “24 hours in A&E” Grin Grin

spiderlight · 16/10/2019 09:25

I thought she was there because she was going to treat the hydrocephalus but the appendix had to come out first.

QueenofmyPrinces · 16/10/2019 09:38

I had gotten the impression that the hydrocephalus could only be done once the patient had recovered from their appendicectomy.

Plus, her heroics were obviously as hoc because if it was a planned procedure she wouldn’t have said, “Find me a needle, the biggest one you can find”. If the plan was that she was going to address the hydrocephalus at the same time as the appendix being removed then she would already have had all her equipment ready.

SleepingStandingUp · 16/10/2019 09:49

Kian? He seems to serve no purpose other than being a bit flirty with people
I'd be his patient 😉😉

SleepingStandingUp · 16/10/2019 09:50

I do think he needs more story, but I like his relationship with Nikki. He treats her like an actual grownup and suppose he gives contrast to Jacs approach. He and Jac need more scenes together.

Mangme needs to go work at St James. Happy for her to leave Chloe

PretendLife · 22/10/2019 21:09

Well......for once I just don't know what to say.

CottonHeadedNinyMuggins · 22/10/2019 21:11

Jeeeeeesus.

power of Attorney just isn't that simple - it's costly (unless on certain benefits), you can't just spring it on people, it's not in place without going back to the Office Of Public Guardian to be registered (potentially being sent back and forth until correct). You can't just spring it on someone either, they have to agree and forms have to go out to other people to let them have their say on potential attorneys) unless you have two independent posh jobbed people sign to say you're not being forced to appointing these people. They also have to complete detailed forms too to prove they understand what it entails.

but yeah... that's not the most ridiculous part of the ep haha!

Other world Jac was incredible! Grin

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Optimist1 · 22/10/2019 22:37

That was a very strange and not very engaging episode! The only redeeming feature was that we didn't have to suffer Ange.

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SoupDragon · 22/10/2019 22:43

power of Attorney just isn't that simple

It wasn't at all complicated when we set them up for my parents. Solicitor prepared the forms. Everyone signed them with witnesses. Send them off. Job done.

CottonHeadedNinyMuggins · 23/10/2019 08:10

You can't just set it up on the day though and sign it and think it's active without it going to the office of public guardian and being checked is my point. He not only signed it on the morning of his op he also sprung being an attorney on serena without even asking or her doing the paperwork/sendijg the forms off.

It takes around 4 weeks to be registered once posted back (if accepted) to allow objections to it.

I filled in the form twice (health and welfare and for property and finance - mostly the same but esch form needs a seperate application ) to get both poas for my grandad when he was initially diagnosed with dementia about 8 years ago.

It would only have been any good should he be brain-damaged or similar by the operation. Of he died then its useless and the forms have to be returned very quickly to the office of public guardian as its down to the will executors then. (or probate)

spiderlight · 23/10/2019 09:48

I thought the same - we had the most interminable performance setting it up for my dad. Took weeks to come back.

As for the rest of it - it's what the Confused face was made for! Quite good fun though. Felt sorry for Dom.

Susiesoap7 · 23/10/2019 10:09

Thought that was a load of tosh!
Missed last ten minutes due to phone call! Is rick alive or dead?

QueenofmyPrinces · 23/10/2019 11:37

Alive!!

And you’d be very shocked (not) to hear that after extreme brain surgery, where there were lots of serious complications, including resulting in him needing CPR for 20 minutes, he did not need to be on a ventilator at all after his operation to allow his body to recover and in fact, he did not require any time in the Intensive Care Unit either.

He was actually in a lovely little cubicle on his own with just a mere oxygen face on his mask. He then woke up and began chatting coherently to Serena straight away with perfect recall of a conversation they’d had prior to his life threatening operation.

It’s quite amazing really....

Susiesoap7 · 23/10/2019 13:43

Don't you just love a bionic man!

QueenofmyPrinces · 23/10/2019 15:10

I wonder how many episodes will we have to watch until he’s back performing surgery...

I’m guessing about 2??

CottonHeadedNinyMuggins · 23/10/2019 15:20

Naaah you're all far too hard on the scriptwriters....!

He'll clearly be back performing surgery next Tuesday with no mention of the brain tumour or almost killing/misdiagnosing a couple of patients through forgetting things ever again 😂😜

Frith2013 · 23/10/2019 18:52

Power of attorney is cheap and easy. I’ve got it. But it wasn’t done in a morning...

What a silly episode.

CleopatraTomato · 23/10/2019 22:37

Well that was dreadful - for all the resons previously mentioned and for awful dialogue and lazy writing. A class of Year Fives could have done better. A dream sequence! Hackneyed to say the least. And tedious.

It is a shame - a good hospital drama should be able to keep the stories going without resort to this drivel

PretendLife · 26/10/2019 15:21

So I guess we have come full circle. Back to another Dofty misery-fest. Then maybe back to Essie and her baby obsession. Then maybe Chloe being pregnant for a revisit to shrieking Mange and her dramas. Then it will be time for another mental health story, Cameron perhaps? Then it will be time for a bit more coercive control. Fletch can pop up in a check shirt with a cheeky quip here and there as that seems to be the extent of his 'acting' these days.

Or maybe the lazy-arse scriptwriters could actually do some original thinking and come up with some new stuff for a change.

Yes to the miracle recovery of Ric! just like Faye's lightning fast recovery from a heart transplant and Jac with her 8 surgeries in a year and all ok now.

Nonnymum · 26/10/2019 17:18

Sadly Holby seems to have lost its way. I used to like it when it focused on the patients or am I just imagining a time when it wasn't so ridiculous? I will probably still watch it but I don't know why!

PretendLife · 30/10/2019 09:08

I think there was a time when Holby wasn't so ridiculous, but it was a long time ago….I only watch it to bitch about it on here!

So, yeah, we have yet another Dofty drama and another mental health story, or two with Cam and Jac both falling apart, again.

But at least there was no Mange this week, always a bonus.