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Pandemic personal consequences

colacubes said:
Also, even if it was an option, right now many of the private hospitals are being used to provide NHS services. My Mum is actually going into one to have a specialist neurosurgery operation next week (hopefully as nothing is guaranteed right now and the op has been hugely delayed to the point it's now incredibly urgent). Her hospital (a major London teaching hospital) have outsourced all of their neurosurgery offsite to a private hospital whilst Covid is going on.
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All the best for your Mum colacubes x
 
bellaozzydog said:
I stayed in a U.K. hotel a week ago, there wasn’t much fuss. Just very quiet
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Same, room service working at the Hilton I stayed in recently so even possible to get a freshly poured pint. Breakfast delivered to the room door too.

As a further data point I stayed in a travelodge about 10 days ago, there was a sign up displaying the allowable reasons for a stay, but I wasn't asked my reasons for staying. No facilities there beyond a vending machine.
 
Distopiary said:
Just tired of being stuck in.
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William of Walworth said:
Same :( :mad:
And for me, even to the point that I can just about appreciate getting up at barbaric-'o-clock on work days! :eek:
At least you get out of the house for a purpose other than shopping ... :hmm:
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What's barbaric-'o-clock William mate?
I get up at 4:45am (5 latest) every morning.
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You slightly beat me, but only just -- between 5 and 5:15 am is my alarm-set time :(

At least I work part time .......only that has saved me from days when I get up for work so early and dark, and it's raining hard as well!! :mad:
 
Broke the rules today as was taking my oldest niece for a walk in the park and despite my warnings she ran into some waterlogged ground and lost both wellies in there, so her socks and leggings and feet were soaked. I thought it best to take her to my place very nearby to change and warm up, rather than wait in the cold for her dad to come and get her. I think sometimes you do have to consider what's practical rather than what's mandated by law
 
Also briefly broke the law today because had an errand to do that involved me going close to a friend's house, and she has been quite ill recently (not with Covid), was insistent that I went round to see her and then was clearly not well enough to go for a walk, so I sat inside with mask on for 15 mins. Made me feel extremely uncomfortable - both that I was doing the wrong thing by going inside and then doing another bad thing by leaving really quickly.

Then went back on the train, sat well away from anyone else only to have a maskless woman get on at Hebden Bridge and sit virtually next to me with an defiant look on her face. I moved, much to her snorting disgust.
 
Orang Utan said:
Broke the rules today as was taking my oldest niece for a walk in the park and despite my warnings she ran into some waterlogged ground and lost both wellies in there, so her socks and leggings and feet were soaked. I thought it best to take her to my place very nearby to change and warm up, rather than wait in the cold for her dad to come and get her. I think sometimes you do have to consider what's practical rather than what's mandated by law
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That sounds like a reasonable excuse so the law would be on your side. Unless she’s a healthy independent adult.
 
Must be the day for it. My friends, who are very abiding by the rules, stopped by to pick up a needed satnav they'd left here in our previous life. They were on their way to see their support bubble, single sister in law, and it was on the way. However both friend and her 8 year old were desperate for the toilet so they both came inside and used it, and I patted the 8 year old on the head on top of his beanie as he was whimpering cause he wanted to give me a hug and stay for a visit.
 
I'm now living in a shared house. One of the housemates is a nurse in a mental health unit. Chatting in the kitchen tonight, she's told me that ALL the patients have covid but she's been vaccinated.

How do I protect myself?
 
Harry Smiles said:
This continues - last night an insistence I looked at Mike Pompeo's Twitter account for the obvious coded message that America and China were officially at war. Eventually called me a thick cunt for not agreeing and realising why I wouldn't find it anywhere else on the internet.
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I guess now they've decided, they're are moving to Dubai to not pay tax on the earnings their fantasy web design company doesn't earn because it has no clients, this will be less of a problem :rolleyes:
 
Thora said:
Avoid your housemate as much as possible I guess. Hopefully with her being vaccinated and wearing PPE at work you should be ok though.
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Yeah. Shame as she's the only other female and the only chatty one. Oh well. I know her schedule so not hard to avoid being in the kitchen at the same time. I have my own bathroom so it's only the kitchen that's shared, and everyone has their own crockery/cutlery.
 
One of the customers my in-laws walk dogs for has tested positive. In-laws seem ok having had minimal contact but they're having to isolate.

Knock-on effect of this is the auld fella they are carers for is now having to have his medication administered by Mrs SI twice daily, 7.30 am & pm. So no lie-ins over the half term holidays, which we'd both been really looking forward to and have definitely earned :(:(:(
 
miss direct said:
I'm now living in a shared house. One of the housemates is a nurse in a mental health unit. Chatting in the kitchen tonight, she's told me that ALL the patients have covid but she's been vaccinated.

How do I protect myself?
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jezuz

medically educating her would be a start...
 
I'm really exhausted and exasperated and cross and miserable.

This post is here, rather than in employment, because it's largely down to my response to my employer's response to the covids and the effect it's having on my ability to cope with everything.

Every week, we are lined up and given a gun and instructed to fire it down into the appendages on the ends of our legs. It's like there's a sub-committee specifically dedicated to finding the most stupid solution possible to any problem, in order that we can all waste our time for as many hours as possible, until we're given a new directive that takes up even more time, in order to 'correct' the entirely predictable - and explicitly predicted - nightmare that has ensued from the previous shit-for-brains decision.

I don't have much give a fuck left. Fortunately am on leave from nowish for a couple of weeks.
 
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My Mum was diagnosed with a fairly rare disease during the early part of lockdown. It was something that could be corrected with prompt surgery. The surgery was delayed for 6 months due to both Covid and the knock on effects that caused in NHS admin and the service being stretched to within an inch of its life. During that time she deteriorated to the point she was bed bound and mentally completely disengaged with the world. We have a full care package 4 times a day as she can no longer look after herself. She finally had surgery this week as it became so urgent (outsourced to a private hospital by the NHS). I just spoke to her and she sounds like herself for the first times in over a year :) Positive and mentally alert. She is still bed bound but it now looks like we might be able to start physio soon and get her up and about and independent again. But even if she can't get back to mobile she's still there mentally :) I hadn't realised quite how much it had been hanging over me and I've just spent the last half an hour crying in relief. But it didn't need to get this bad.
 
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