The Bluestocking - Invoking Split Pea Annexe B

[Magpiecomplex]

Welcome all, pull up a gerbil and make yourself comfortable!

Night all, hope you all have a good night's rest and a better day tomorrow
And in case dear Swash pops her head around the corner : 💙 xx

Did I really post my good-night post at 00.00 exactly? Wow. I couldn't do that intentionally, it would be like trying to stop the petrol pump at a round figure, and it always goes a bit over

I don't expect much footfall in the Stocking today, what with Sandie Peggie's tribunal up and running again - shock news that she was cleared of all allegations of gross misconduct, released by NHS Fife late yesterday - maybe even at 00.00

Hope that sets the tone for a good, or at least better, day for everybody today. x

Good morning Marie. I'm here, but bit hampered by current health concerns.
Does the Bluestocking have a resident Dr Gerbil?

Very pleased about Sandie Peggie.

Am trying to summon a Bluestocking doctor, or even a capybara nurse (we used to have them), but the AI has forgotten what puffling means & headdesk.

Hope you feel better soon, Puffers.

Cheers android. Crappy chronic stuff, so I look enormously healthy!

I'll hug Rosie ( and/ or her sister) for a bit.

Aw look! Brains and Batshit in the line-up. Brains will do anything for food. Batshit just likes to cuddle up to an available human.

Both of them are available for walks and companionship (and, Brains has just reminded me, FOOD!) at any time.

Re life admin, DH had no idea how much effort a holiday takes to organise until he offered to do one - he thought it would be a simple case of flights and hotel. He hadn't thought about hire car, selecting the dates/flights and the hotel, booking the airport parking, checking everyone's passports - and deciding on the destination in the first place. And booking the kennels for the dogs (this was back in the days of Bolshy, Barker and Brains) was still left to me.

Can I have a bit of a whinge please? My knee and shoulders are still causing me a lot of pain, and on Monday, I tripped in the hall and went down hard on all fours, which hasn’t exactly helped. I’m having to use a stick around the house and outside.

Muttermuttermuttergrumblegrumblewhingewhinge.

Aw, Woley! We're going to have to set up an infirmary wing.

Oh bless you Woley, aka what a bugger. Hope it settles soon. Sticks are useful for poking oiks. ( Today's positive thought)

Oh no! Do you have any arnica? Great for bruises and shock. Hope you feel a bit better soon but know it feels even worse when it’s hot snd sticky weather too.

puffling and woley

I've been to the dentist. I have to have a tooth extracted

Dentist said it would be a difficult job because (reasons, gesturing at X-ray image). If it can't be extracted entirely at the surgery, the dental hospital might have to have a go.

Any tips on getting the strongest possible drugs out of the dentist/hospital?

I saw a shelf labelled "CBD and Mushrooms" in Boots just now. Anything good likely to be on there?

Cher, buy yogurt. Lots of yogurt.

I have some CBD drops that I use to get me off to sleep. I'm often a very poor sleeper. They're relaxing, but they won't get you high or anything.

Though I have a playlist that's just Yello and Amanda Lear. Sometimes I fall asleep listening to it and have really weird dreams.

In my experience dentists have been kind and helpful in prescribing strong painkillers. Also those antibiotics that you must never take any alcohol with.

Not in mine, sadly.

It's more "Take some paracetamol if it bothers you" and "You don't need antibiotics, it'll clear up by itself".

Oh dear, so many poorly Stockingers!
Doc Quok will be around to see you all ASAP, I see she has already started examining Fuzzy, using her Magic Invisible Stethoscope
You're next, Woley, and then she'll be around to you, Cher, with some 'paracetamol'😏 to get you through the dentistry.

Hugs to all

Oh dear, clearly Irish dentists work to a different standard.

I love Doc Quok. ❤️

Went to the optician but they won't refer DSD to the Low Vision Clinic because she doesn't meet their requirements. When I asked what the requirements were, they said she doesn't have a bad visual field.

But then they agreed she hasn't actually had a visual field test because she hasn't complained. Well if she has had a reduced visual field due to premature retinopathy she doesn't know that she should complain! And they won't test her till her next appointment in two years.

I am seeking another solution.

Good news on other fronts though. Car balloon payment was cancelled by car company because they're idiots. I've had to pay manually, but I asked for the gratuitous unnecessary add to their profit option to pay fee to be removed and saved myself £10.

Surgery department said there is no way I can have general anaesthetic less than 48 hours after sedation, so I called endoscopy and said they needed to bring the appointment forward. They said no and could I come after the ankle surgery, to which I said no because I'll be on crutches or in a wheelchair and I will only just have recovered from surgery, AND I'm on the cancer pathway so the statistics will be awful (I don't have cancer, but I'm prepared to use the pathway as a reason to get seen quickly), she asked her manager and suddenly I have an appointment on the 2 August - meaning I can drink at the family BBQ on the 9th.

In other news, despite a great interview and being an excellent candidate (recruiter's words), yet again I haven't made the next interview. It's infuriating.

Dropping in to advise@Chersfrozenface that in the absence of prescription painkillers the best bet is to interleave paracetamol and aspirin (or ibuprofen, if you prefer) at maximum dose. This means you can take painkillers every four hours instead of every eight. Take the first dose as soon as the extraction is done: you want it to kick in before the anaesthetic starts to wear off. More than a 30 min trip home and I'd be taking the first dose en route, just in case.

If you land up in the dental hospital I would also insist on local anaesthetic, rather than general.* It's just possible the surgeon will be more careful if you're awake and you'll definitely get a hefty local dose of lidocaine. If this is refused ask why and don't consent to sedation or general anaesthesia unless you're happy that the explanation isn't a euphemism for inexperience.

*Don't have general anaesthesia in a community dental surgery. Don't think this is offered except by the clinics that treat patients (phobic, physical or intellectual impairments) who can't be treated in general dental practice (because mortality was appalling) but not 100% sure and can't be arsed to check.

I had a molar out a few years ago, don’t remember it being unduly painful. But they did get the whole thing out which doubtless helps.

Is aspirin ok after an extraction or might it impede clotting?

Aspirin's fine. If concerned make paracetamol the first painkiller, but there's no need to worry. The things to avoid are nicotine products and alcohol. I doubt any smoker ever manages to, but abstaining in advance would be a good idea.

Reading the Tribunal Tweets and Sandie Peggie thread here.

Apparently Fife think it's completely fine for men who identify as women to change in women's single sex spaces, because only women with gender critical beliefs would complain and they don't know how many of them there are. Women who are not permitted/feel uncomfortable undressing with men are probably happy to change with men who identify as women if they believe that such men are actually women - you know the TWAW thing.

It appears then that Forstater only applies to women who declare a gender critical belief. If you're a woman who may not have engaged with this debate, perhaps because you realise it's relentless and exhausting, or you might have better things to do like doing your job, raising your kids, living your life, or because it's never come up (oh to be that woman!), but you walk into a changing room and you see a great big ugly bloke in a dress, even if you object to that, you don't have the right to object if you don't hold a belief you don't even know about.

That is the kind of stupid mind games and angels dancing on a pin philosophy that has caused HR departments across the public sector to twist themselves into knots because men saying they are women has been allowed to go unchecked.