OH had his second negative LFT test today so hoping that we should be free to visit our daughter for New Year. But then our son, on his 7th LFT, tested positive. Ahhhhhhgh. We'll be isolating forever!!!
The first Royal Institution Lecture with JVT was fantastic! Not just for kids! He and his colleagues explained what viruses are, how they infect, how we test and how much snot an adult produces in one day!!
The metaphors in use are really notable in the programme - and the rest of the media.
Attack, battle, fight, war, steal, invasion, defend, weapons.
It puts it in very personal terms - as if they are 'out on a mission to get us' - it's so anthropocentric, an over-simplified binary 'them and us'.
It's similar with the language around cancer, immigration, natural disasters. I don't think it's useful. It makes us feel persecuted, victimised, plotted against and picked on.
It seems to me related to a semi-religious take - as if god/nature has a
plan - Zeus sitting on his mountain sending down thunder bolts,
plagues of locusts, boils or TB. It's all very Jason and the Argonauts.
The private hospitals were used last year … they were contracted to provide operating theatres and recovery beds for long awaited ‘routine’ operations. That’s where my son had his long awaited op for a huge cyst in his inner ear, just after last Christmas … on the NHS …. all Suffolk’s ENT ops were being done there to keep them away from the major hospitals where the ENT departments were full of Covid patients on respirators.
My OH had been referred to a private hospital in Suffolk for his routine operation, a hip replacement. He was told it would be quicker than an NHS hospital as his hip was in a bad state. Last year the op was cancelled twice because, so he was told, the Gov. had taken over the hospital for Covid patients but then he was told it was empty most of the time as it hadn't been needed. His op was re-scheduled for July this year but by then his ECG, which was normal last year, wasn't normal, may have been stress but may be more serious so it was postponed again for tests. The cardiologist said he was fine and op booked again for September but the anaesthetist wants more tests, now waiting for result of a scan of arteries. He can hardly walk, it's affecting his general health. I wish he'd had the op last year.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Ergates, the title SEN was phased out,you did that 2 year training,or SRN 3 years little difference in what you actually did. There was a lot more,I did a basic 2year training ward based, monthly in "school" proper wage structure. Over the years,nurses took on roles that originally belonged to the DRs. Incidentally, I could have earned more money stocking shelves in Sainsbury's. I hated the nursing home in the late 90s, went for a mass interview for that very job. Failed the psychological profile. I had a friend over 25 years ago,she worked one shift a week Sunday,short hours in their coffee shop and earned a hundred quid a week!
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