The Forty - Eight Republic - countdown for DfE media agency to wake up

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff only – a sort of room of requirement. Baiters, haters, goaders, and bashers can jog on somewhere else.

If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

You can play here if you are a member of one the following groups-

-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
-SWAB - school workers against bashers
-SWOT - school workers opposing teacherbashers
-STARS - schoolworkers together against ranting + slurs

Do not give the staffroom password just in case it attracts the wrong sort

Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation.

If you come with a stick to goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom and you will receive a detention

@JanFebAnyMonth

Ange no the 'at no more risk' is based on counting the number of teacher deaths per head of teachers (iyswim) vs the same number for other professions.

I was just thinking that I probably ought to put a disclaimer on my previous post, saying that I was being facetious.

@MrsHamlet

What do we think are the chances of a doctors appointment? The pain is now up into my neck and it feels like something is in the wrong place.... I can't explain it. I'm whimpering like a child!

My doctor does telephone appointments and brings you into the surgery if necessary. It's very good. The nurse hinted that it's far more efficient, presumably because it filters out known timewasters.

@noblegiraffe

Wrapping the kids in tape would solve even more problems, mother

See. I knew those rumours about you hating kids were true.

God, only just woken up-makes a change from waking at 5am with palpitations I guess!

What’s happened - has it been released we’re all back on the 8th or is the mail just hoping?

I'm installed on the sofa with a hot water bottle for now. When I've recovered from my shower, I'm going to stagger into town and buy ALL the painkillers.
I am reminded of what happened the day before our last ofsted when I was writing on the board, turned to speak to a kid and twanged something. A very unladylike word came out and I burst into tears! A kid ran for the nearest person who supervises isolation and the head was called whilst I sobbed I agony and the kids kept working!

knew those rumours about you hating kids were true

It's why I'm a maths teacher. Best way to get to torture them behind PE teacher, but I'm crap at PE.

DH is a PE teacher. Our children are all prepped for the onslaught of secondary PE, DH has had them running laps since they could toddle 😆

MrsH you can buy ibuprofen with codeine (nurofen used to own the patent but you can get generic now). It has about 15mg of codeine per tablet and you can take 2. If you also buy cocodamol you can alternate them 2 hourly itms? So 11am 2 of the ibuprofen ones, 1pm 2 of the paracetamol ones.

This is the very best pain coverage regime I've discovered with over the counter options.

Rotator cuff injury, dental abscess and surgery in recent years so I've had highly invested opportunities to test it. Can no one else go to town for you?

@noblegiraffe

Wrapping the kids in tape would solve even more problems, mother

And if some of them got "accidentally" taped to their chairs I wouldn't complain.

cat linked to this on another thread. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/guest_posts/4168527-Guest-Post-Post-COVID-we-will-need-a-new-government-commitment-to-children

The outgoing children's commissioner will be back to answer questions at 4pm. I'm interested to see if she answers mine.

Poor MrsH a neighbour maybe? Unless you think the walking might help.

I'd second piggy's idea of osteo/chiro appt (altho costs about £50!!) - they are wizards. Although I don't have experience if poss trapped nerves, to be fair.

MrsH sorry you are in so much pain. Sounds awful. Definitely try ibuprofen and heat.

Sounds awful though.

I have good news on the Dh front. He gets his first vaccine tomorrow. So he should have some protection by 8th March. I was so happy yesterday, I’ve been panicking, thinking I could infect him when we go back.

Didn’t think of wrapping him in tape though. That could work, and if not it would be funny.

Finally have an actual plan and going home has been mentioned ! But I have another procedure tomorrow so.... That would have to come back clear. But .... Still... Small gains...

I've asked my lovely neighbour to go for me. I tried to get off the sofa in a hurry and that was interesting!

Glad to hear you've reached out for help MrsH!

Still can't bring myself to look at school work but did a bit of sorting through clothes and what fits, what's summer, what can go etc. I'm so much more productive when avoiding work

@OpheliasCrayon brilliant that home has been mentioned. Fingers crossed it all goes well tomorrow x

Hamlet, do you have everything you need to hand? When I was stuck in with a broken leg, I used to have to get set up for the whole day with phone, tissues, painkillers, TV remotes, water bottle, laptop etc nearby to minimise movement from the sofa/bed. Even getting to the loo was a half hour expedition.

I do, thank you. I don't imagine the gp is going to offer much more than "rest and take painkillers" to be honest.

Can I just ask, does anyone else struggle to just do one small job? Like, I was going to sort out my pots and seeds, but it turned into moving the garden furniture and cleaning the patio and shifting the big pots, and repotting some things that survived overwinter despite my neglect. And now I'm half way through and it looks worse than when I started. Or is it just me?

Well, Frlfrlburt, I am procrastinating from marking by tidying the basket at the side of my chair (the one I am allowed to sit in...) which has consisted of lifting the shit onto the kitchen table and then shutting the door

Yup. Started cleaning. Hoovered and mopped downstairs. Cleaned loo. Put hoover on stairs to start going up....and then I sat down with a cuppa and some Jaffa cakes and now my arse is welded to the chair

Definitely not just you FrlFrl - I was lamenting my attempts to vacuum the living room and the long disjointed/tangential journey it sent me off on just the other day on here.

Wouldn't be so sure MrsH - I think numbness and tingling might tip the balance? Pre bowel surgery I suddenly had fizzing and numbness in my feet and some weird symptoms and had to see doctor and have them hit me all over with the reactions hammer thing and various other neurological checks and I was referred for an mri (which may have been because of something weird about the pattern of symptoms and I think it was a concern that it was on both sides). As it turns out I think it was probably connected to ending up in hospital less than a week later with a twisted, herniated colon - could have been putting pressure on the vegus nerve?

List your symptoms please. And keep an eye out for not being able to pee or weird symptoms around that.

I think it's a symptom of having a really fucking big list of shit that needs doing that got neglected over the crazy last term of work and is actually way too much to fit into a week and you're mentally knackered. Basically teachers half term syndrome but on steroids in a covid year no. 2.

I'm supposed to be decorating the hall, but it's the first nice day in ages and I need the vitamin D. The hall is also a study in procrastination, I started stripping the wallpaper, realised I needed a ladder, and never started again. I borrowed FILs ladder weeks ago, but I haven't been in the mood since

I frequently get neck/shoulder pain, and tingling and numbness in my hand. It's usually a trapped nerve caused by muscle spasm - which is why the stretches work for me.