Good morning everyone . Good grief Rebecca , go back to bed . Hope Jack I s beginning to benefit fro his treatment LB . Pansy enjoy your walk .Late comers👋
Morning Debs and Ruby. Yes Debs, and we all know that a fair number of those people go to the Doc's with complaints that a good pharmacist could help with and take up the time that more poorly people need.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Yes LB It’s a worry, my doctors have a clinic on Saturday mornings supposedly for working people but it is always retired folk and those not working who take all the appointments. I do understand that as we get older we need more medical care often but some people are at the doctors pretty much every day over very minor ailments. I sympathise if they are lonely and in need of support but maybe the GP isn’t the right person for that? We need more resources to support those without family or friends but where wil the money come from?
Don’t get me started on parents who rush to see doctor for every sniffle from their children insisting on antibiotics that are unnecessary and won’t be used because they taste vile!
Dry day here and the wind has dropped a bit let’s hope it lasts for a while as I need to get into my garden, got withdrawal symptoms
I agree 100% Debs. It seems difficult to make some people understand that antibiotics are completely useless against viral infections and that massive over prescription to such people is what has led to the development of superbugs. Don't get me started on people who say they have 'flu when all it is is a common cold. That is another one of my rants. Sorry, I think I need another hot drink.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
I'm with you on the cold / flu rant LB. I have had 'flu - once in over 60 years. It developed incredibly quickly while I was out on a visit for work. Fortunately, I realised I was about to go down with something so cancelled the visit and drove 30 miles home. Within half an hour of walking through the door my head was banging so hard I thought it would explode and I could hardly open my eyes. Within 2 hours I could hardly breathe. Took to my bed and didn't / couldn't get up for 3 days. Took a full 2 weeks to feel anything like human.
That's 'flu. A heavy cold can make you feel dreadful - and we all know what a horrid, lingering cough is associated with the lurgy doing the rounds at the moment - but it is just a bad cold.
I get really cross when people take themselves off to the doctor at the first sign of a minor complaint that can be dealt with at home using a large dose of common sense backed up with over the counter medicines if appropriate.
Sorry - that's my rant over too.
Manners! - Good afternoon everyone. Last night was a wet and stormy affair. OH was supposed to be instructing today but he's come home because the airfield is waterlogged and they can't manoeuvre the planes without risking getting stuck fast (it's a grass airstrip).
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
One new year sometime ago i went to the races and was very cold and felt quite unwell. I had develped pluracy my whole bacck felt like a block of ice and I was shivering but had a high temperature it was much different from a cold and the only time I had pluracy. I have fallen asleep for an hour and a half and now having a cup of tea and feeling a little more human as you do. I need to liven up before I cook tea. LB I hope you’ll be back soon and that Jack your neighbour isn’t feeling too bad.
Afternoon. I'm going to have a rant too. I had intended to go out for a short time today but I had a phone call at 10am from an ex-colleague to say she would have to to A&E and have a deep cut in her thumb attended to. She asked if she could pop in afterwards and I agreed. She has just phoned to say she got back home at 1pm. If she had phoned then, I could still have gone out. I wont be so accommodating next time.
Good afternoon T'Bird. Gosh its quiet on here but I suspect that the nice weather (here at least) has persuaded people out into their gardens. Well I had a good hospital visit with Jack - even better when he put his hearing aids in. He is looking very well despite being where he is. I think that they are quite happy with his progress. After I had been there a while his daughter and great granddaughter arrived. They had been called in by the consultant for an update. I left them to it and then got a call from Jack's daughter just to say that they were talking of letting him out once they were sure he was balanced with the medication. I didn't need to go and feed Kitty this afternoon as his daughter called me from his house. Its saved me a nervous crossing of the road! Woo hoo!
Sensible decision about the flying for your OH T'Bird. Cars getting stuck in mud is a nightmare itself so a plane similarly blighted would be twice as bad.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Posts
That's 'flu. A heavy cold can make you feel dreadful - and we all know what a horrid, lingering cough is associated with the lurgy doing the rounds at the moment - but it is just a bad cold.
I get really cross when people take themselves off to the doctor at the first sign of a minor complaint that can be dealt with at home using a large dose of common sense backed up with over the counter medicines if appropriate.
Sorry - that's my rant over too.
Manners! - Good afternoon everyone. Last night was a wet and stormy affair. OH was supposed to be instructing today but he's come home because the airfield is waterlogged and they can't manoeuvre the planes without risking getting stuck fast (it's a grass airstrip).