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Thanks very much for your concerns for my son Jac and homer. It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster,
he thought he was out of the woods only to be hit by the same symptoms again, and then again. I
read that one hospital consultant described the virus symptoms as coming in waves with the waves
eventually becoming smaller. He’s had some pretty big breakers then, but very recently he is getting
through the day better and has managed some walks with his partner this week. Hopefully he is through
the worstI think there is rightly a great deal of indignation about Cummings. Had it only been the trip
to Durham and back, he may have got away with it as, like it or not, the rules are sufficiently
open that he may (I say may) be deemed to have kept within them. However the drive to Barnard
Castle and back to “test his eyesight” is strethching it further than Pinocchio on a bad day.
Boris is obviously desperate to keep him there, he is no doubt the brains behind the bluster.
Cummings is an interesting character, clearly very clever but socially inept. I’m sure that’s
by choice, I don’t think he cares what anyone thinks of him and I don’t think he will feel under
pressure to resign. If he does, I’d guess he was pushed. He probably has as many enemies as friends
within his own party, and the opposition parties will be like a dog with a bone, they won’t let this
die down even if he intends to sit it out. Eastenders doesn’t have a look in
A friend of mine has had it and says he just feels incredibly tired still. I wonder how many people will suffer from ME because of it, not to mention people that have been inttubed/ NHS staff that may well suffer from PTSD. There seems to be very little discussion about how poorly many covid survivors still are. Two of my grandchildren are in the age group that can go back to school. The older boy will continue to be home schooled. My daughter is an ex teacher anyway and she has access to good lesson plans [not, I’m afraid, from his school, which is one reason why he isn’t going back]. However, his 5 year old cousin will be returning to school, which surprised me. Until, that is, I found out that her school used to be a hospital that was designed by Florence Nightingale. Large, airy room; big windows so there’s lots of natural light and they can be opened so there’s a good flow of air. Separate corridors so infection is reduced etc etc. This, plus the fact that the school have been incredibly good at sending out work gives my son the confidence to allow her to go back. What I’m getting at [in a roundabout way] is that I think people recovering from the virus need to look back to what was learned from Spanish flu/TB etc. Sunlight and fresh air to aid VitD/melatonin production. Rest, sleep. Good, healthy diet. As for the view that we shouldn’t have locked down well, words fail me. I dread to think what the death rate would be now if that hadn’t happened. I hope your son continues to improve BigG. My SIL is now working in London; he changed jobs just as the pandemic was starting. I was so happy when he was sent home to work but he’s now back in the office. Every day that goes by with no call from my children to say one of them has the virus is a good day. I hope everyone on here is ok as I worry about my internet family as well.
Thanks Moe, he seems to be doing well these last few days but I’ve seen this before
so I will keep optimistic without being certain he’s finally beaten it. I can understand
how worried you are about your family, I’m hoping that we’re on the downward curve,
but it’s worrying when people are now returning to work and being allowed more time to
mix with others, albeit at a distance. I hope they, and the rest of us manage to stay safe
It’s a really strange virus in it affects everyone differently, however tiredness is definitely a recurring theme – it’s coming up to 13 weeks since I caught it and the tiredness is still horrendous now matter how good a nights sleep I get I still feel shattered and usually end up having to have an afternoon nap – then again that could just be getting old. I certainly am still not fit enough to go back to work – a 15 hour shift would finish me off lol
The other symptom I really hated was the loss of taste and smell which lasted nearly 8 weeks.
The cough lasted about three weeks and, luckily, the fever only lasted less than 24 hours – helped by paracetamol.
I was lucky with the breathing side of things …. I was a bit worried on the third night, when my oxygen saturations dropped to 90% but luckily I was able to sort it at home myself – I had already decided there was no way I was going into hospital had it got worse.
Paul, not my publication of choice but interesting article that “Covid19” could have started in August 2019:
An interesting read Matron – we will probably never find the real answer but I would not be at all surprised if it had originated earlier that we currently know.
This is an interesting read
as is one
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Is anyone going to admit to clapping last night? I hope not but…
Clapping the NHS either side of a public sector pay freeze, hot on the heels of systematically reducing, allowing for inflation, per capita U.K. population spend the last 11 years on the NHS seems, even by British standards, spectacularly hypocritical.
We are a low tax-favouring nation which prioritises regularly changing: our cars, home furnishings, white goods, and having two foreign holidays a year, instead of one, over and above having an NHS which can cope in a crisis.
Simple as and just saying – as the young might say.
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A pleasant diversion to open the front door and ‘put your hands together’ for the NHS on a balmy spring evening but far too cold and dark at this time of year: there are limits to my goodwill you know
cf. the masses who descend on Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice in June and the handful who make it there to celebrate the winter solstice in December
Well a year’s incredibly hard work is worth around £250 apparently. Well done Government
Well said Homer. I never have clapped for the NHS because my neighbours that were doing so seemed to have a constant stream of visitors even when they weren’t supposed to. I found it two faced. I, instead, did everything I could to safeguard myself and those around me because, by doing so I was safeguarding the NHS also. On top of that hospital staff are again having to pay extortionate amounts to park when they go to work. If there is, as has been suggested, a slow handclap in protest I’ll be more than happy to take part in that.
I have to confess I am vehemently anti-union and am no fan of striking but I would have the utmost sympathy for NHS workers if they decided to strike (no sympathy for doctors and dentists who are well remunerated).
However those who keep the service running nurses, health care assistants, porters, cleaners, caterers, ambulance staff etc. etc. (apologies to any I have omitted) are paid poorly and their goodwill is far too often taken for granted.
The governments “justification” is money is tight and “1% is a generous offer” might hold better credibility if they hadn’t pissed billions up the wall on worthless contracts for their buddies.
As I think many of you may know my final career change saw me working for the NHS in the ambulance service – I did it because it was something I wanted to do, I certainly didn’t do it for the money, luckily I was already financially self-sufficient. I don’t know how my colleagues with young families could survive financially – well I do know, they would work their days off doing freelance work, just to survive.
My starting pay for front line ambulance work with the NHS in 2016 was £8.61 an hour (with a 25% premium for nights and weekends). Plus an appalling shift pattern which effectively meant you had no social life and you had to book leave 12 – 18 months in advance. Plus for the first year you were on what they call relief rota in which you only knew your working pattern 2-3 weeks in advance.
Eventually I left the NHS and joined a private provider, still doing front line 999 work for the NHS, where my hourly rate was £14.50 days and £17.50 nights and weekends. Plus I chose when I worked and what shifts I wanted to do. It meant I could work two days a week and still earn the same as I was with the NHS full time, plus I had a social life again.
Most of the NHS staff I know have to do second jobs just to keep their heads above water.
The result, staff leaving in droves and those who remain so tired and exhausted they will make mistakes.
Who would have thought that voting for a party that hates the NHS would result in NHS workers being treated like sh!t? There will be mass outrage before everyone yet again marks the blue box on their ballot papers in a few years time.
What has the NHS been doing with that £350 million it’s been getting every week for the past two months by the way? Surely some of that could go to nurses?
Well, Mike and I were the only people standing outside in our street last night at 8 o’clock. Gone were all the neighbours that had been happily clapping for the NHS when it was fashionable. Have to admit to just standing there with my placard which said ‘1% is a insult’ because I didn’t want to draw attention to myself; an act of cowardice I admit.
Moe in two words you are the patron saint of the NHS and the only heroine in your street. Actions speak out louder than words. A question though …
Who persuaded who to go outside.Was it Mike or was it Moe
persuaded the other outside to go
Which of those two placard heroes
Was it Mike or was it Moe ?
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