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bellaozzydog said:
Because of the fuckwittery between my doctor some clinical pharmacist and the pharmacy I got left with a trips worth of mirtazapine

I should have had a month extra but someone decided they thought I was “saving up” my pills so cancelled them and I had to leave with only supply for 6 weeks. This was despite a meeting where I explained my position and literallyvisiting the pharmacy and Heath Center 4 times ten days before I left

anyways absolutely no way of getting them out here without a psychiatrist to assess and prescribe (shit country rules)

anyways I’m on and indefinite trip and need to taper mirtazapine over 22 days

ie I have 22 tablets left. I can just about half and quarter them so anyone good at fractions and know about the apparently horrendous mirtazapine withdrawal feel feel to come up with a plan....

no need for suggestions of how to get them as every last avenue has been exhausted

just need a dramatic taper plan

FML x 100 and fuck Janet the pharmacy manager for being unredeemably shit every single time I have dealt with her for the last three years
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literally if someone could come up with a break down taper in quarters that would be a life saver

counting up I have 30 1/4 tablets left (just had 3/4 and left a 1/4)

my heads now gone:D HELP
 
Postie in South Leeds.

Office of 30 employees. Came in this morning to 4 self isolating, due to partners/family etc, and one lass quite ill since Wednesday 18th (No tests, has she got it? Fuck knows.) I was covering her shift.

First 2 hours are on a new estate, the demographic's mainly young working couples and families. Most are indoors. Loads more cars in driveways than usual. After this weekend's lack of social distancing, the council are tying up the swings in the playgrounds and taping the slides with orange plastic mesh

Letters go in as normal. We have door to doors to deliver as well. I hope someone clamps down on this disease vector soon. This week's are a McDonald's special offer in the shape of some fries (McDonald's shuts completely tonight from 7pm) and some flyer about funeral cover (Coincidental to the current situation, but still grim) . I'd imagine many posties will choose personal morals over distribution and dispose of these elsewhere.

We scan the parcel, knock, then jump back 3 paces, most folk answer with excessive politeness and pick up their stuff from the doorstep. (It feels like 'knock-a-door-run' a tradition from November 4th called mischief night up 'ere). Around 10% appear at the window and make hand signals. We get the message.

I can wear rubber gloves for around an hour before fingers itch and go wrinkly. As there's 1 box a day between 30 of us, I tend to take 2 pairs for the busiest loops that have loads of gates, doorknobs and keypads. Hand sanitiser keeps appearing in the office, long may it do so.

I'm seeing children's' hand painted rainbows in windows, I'm guessing this has spread from Italy and been encouraged by schools in their last week. I like it but it adds to the unreality.

For the past 3 days I've seen at least 1 sign on a door, somewhere, stating, 'Covid 19, Warning! leave parcels on the doorstep or with neighbour' (Word's to that effect)

Our union and Royal Mail have made an agreement to deliver medicines, care packages, essential gov't communications and whatever else through this clusterfuck, and until I have to go 'iso', I'm happy and willing to do it.

Fuck it though, I'm getting drunk tonight, think I wrote this more for myself than you lot, summat to look back on, I don't post often, just seen too many scared faces today.
 
pinkychukkles said:
If your partner is vulnerable then surely travelling to be with her would be covered?
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I wasn't going to be travelling with her, we do not live in the same city at present. We were going to travel separately. Who knows what's covered, or what enforcement will be like if there even is any. I'm not going to take the risk of being the one guy the police get to try out their new powers on first, and I definitely don't want to put my partner in that position.
 
:facepalm:
We were convinced that the clocks went forward last weekend. It all seemed strangely easy but we put it down to having to stay in and one day blending into the next....just now they said on the news 'remember this weekend the clocks change...'.
For the first time in our lives we didn't miss the clock changing but were a week ahead of everybody else :D
 
TopCat said:
Hey we can do bleak you fucker! Dont make the day worse with this bullshit. Dont retreat from here. This is important for you.
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Really dont. Have a bath. Get sleep in. You will realise soon you have not got to sort everything out.
 
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Artaxerxes said:
NHS just texted me...

I can’t survive 12 weeks in a single flat guys, I will go insane.
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Mmm, me too. Bugger.

Don’t think I’ll get anywhere near twelve weeks though, I live in a hostel.
 
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Spymaster said:
The Turkish gaffs on the Harrow Road are pretty much fully stocked. I even got a chicken!
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A chicken? Wow. I have been finishing lamb tonight knowing I have nothing bar breakfast bacon and eggs, ham for lunch then I'm going feral.
I only got the lamb because of Bis Sis sussing my plans for the nut fed wood pigeon colony here, rushing with distractions. I'm getting up before dawn, I'll put a Hoolahoop out full of bread, only shoot whatever goes in the hoop. A few air rifle twangs entirely withing my own property and hours of preparation later I might have a lunch.
 
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Mmm, me too. Bugger.

Don’t think I’ll get anywhere near twelve weeks though, I live in a hostel.
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Hey Mr Rubbish it's been ages. Try and endure. Best of luck.
 
Boss reckons we're key workers (I'm in transport but the least important kind and don't agree) so am on the plague train this morning. We will all be working one day in eight from the office and three in eight from home. TFL rail is not too bad but if services are reduced on Jubilee line it will be crowded. Will get out at Canning Town and walk. My n95 mask is currently with fedex, expected on Friday, so am naked faced and trying my damnedest not to touch anything at all. Have wipes and hand sanitizer in my bag. Will try not to make the same mistake as last week and use the bleach wipes on my hands. That hurt.

Wife's interview with NHS admin has been postponed so family policy is only I leave the house, as little as possible and clothes go straight to washing machine and I go for a full Silkwood shower as soon as I get home.

Kids are managing. Two year old is happy as anything. Toys and garden all day. Nearly five year old has something bubbling under the surface. She knows about the 'bug' but she misses school and her friends. She was meant to have a bicycle for her birthday in a few weeks but we're going to get her a tablet instead. Seems silly having a bicycle just for the garden. God knows if she'll be able to have a bike next year.
 
Streets deserted near home but one metric fucktonne of construction workers at Vauxhall.
 
TopCat said:
A chicken? Wow. I have been finishing lamb tonight knowing I have nothing bar breakfast bacon and eggs, ham for lunch then I'm going feral.
I only got the lamb because of Bis Sis sussing my plans for the nut fed wood pigeon colony here, rushing with distractions. I'm getting up before dawn, I'll put a Hoolahoop out full of bread, only shoot whatever goes in the hoop. A few air rifle twangs entirely withing my own property and hours of preparation later I might have a lunch.
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For some reason the pigeons are not there. Who told them eh?
 
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