I'm the youngest of 4 and I 'always' knew that mum had a stillborn and a 6th month old cot death before the rest of us. I suppose I might not be here if they'd lived.
My daughter had to wait several weeks for her 2nd jag as she tested positive just before she should have had it. She then had to rebook it so it was around 6 weeks after her original appointment. I don't know if that could be different for you @Lizzie27 - maybe because of age, or because it's a booster rather than one of the 'original' jags?
@Mrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants- it's sometimes just how it is. With the best will in the world, we don't have control over what can happen. My younger daughter once asked me [as she knew I'd had 2 miscarriages] what would have happened if they'd been born instead. I told her it was simple - I just wasn't meant to have those two. I was meant to have her.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've just had a text from my GP practice ... (a large modern and very efficient one) letting patients know that they' have many staff off with Covid and some non-urgent appointments etc may be postponed ... however all urgent cases will be seen.
That'll explain why Boots who manage my prescriptions said yesterday that there's a bit of a delay and have I got enough to be going on with for a few days? ... thankfully yes I have ... I try to keep a couple of weeks' supply in hand so that we can take a trip away at short notice without having to hassle them for my meds.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Our pharmacy was shut yesterday afternoon, staff got COVID so no one to do the shifts, the man who had been in there since early morning was having a break then coming back for the night shift. The post office was shut for the same reason.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
We have two Boots pharmacies in town - one next to the surgery, the other in town. There is only one pharmacist between them at the moment and if the pharmacist is in the one at the surgery, the Boots in town shuts. No-one ever knows which surgery will be open. Most people get their prescriptions from the one next to the surgery. Queues an hour long are not uncommon. That pharmacist must be exhausted. @pansyface - your surgery sounds as if it is in real trouble and not unlike ours. It was brilliant when we first moved here but as respected doctors there retired, moved on or, in the case on one much loved doctor, died, it hasn't picked up. And we are to have 350 new homes built just down the road from that surgery. They are barely coping now; it is going to be horrendous when those people come on stream. This never seems to be a consideration when new homes are built.
Re pharmacy queues, people should look into the online pharmacy options, totally brilliant. I wont say the brand I use if it's considered advertising but in terms of repeat prescriptions, it's literally a couple of buttons on an app and you are done. Free postage and you get it through your door a few days later- zero dealings with doctor required - or not for the customer anyway, that's the online pharmacy's job!
Covid is definitely rife now, even my husband and Icaught it for the first time last week and we are practically hermits!
@Crazybeelady. Who do you use, you can say as long as it’s not your own company you’re advertising. Are they countrywide, I do like to support the local trade but this is getting a bit silly when I have to do a round trip of 14 miles only to find them closed and not even a sure time of when they’re opening again.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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@Mrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants- it's sometimes just how it is. With the best will in the world, we don't have control over what can happen. My younger daughter once asked me [as she knew I'd had 2 miscarriages] what would have happened if they'd been born instead. I told her it was simple - I just wasn't meant to have those two. I was meant to have her.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That'll explain why Boots who manage my prescriptions said yesterday that there's a bit of a delay and have I got enough to be going on with for a few days? ... thankfully yes I have ... I try to keep a couple of weeks' supply in hand so that we can take a trip away at short notice without having to hassle them for my meds.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The post office was shut for the same reason.
No-one ever knows which surgery will be open. Most people get their prescriptions from the one next to the surgery. Queues an hour long are not uncommon. That pharmacist must be exhausted.
@pansyface - your surgery sounds as if it is in real trouble and not unlike ours. It was brilliant when we first moved here but as respected doctors there retired, moved on or, in the case on one much loved doctor, died, it hasn't picked up. And we are to have 350 new homes built just down the road from that surgery. They are barely coping now; it is going to be horrendous when those people come on stream. This never seems to be a consideration when new homes are built.
Covid is definitely rife now, even my husband and Icaught it for the first time last week and we are practically hermits!
Are they countrywide, I do like to support the local trade but this is getting a bit silly when I have to do a round trip of 14 miles only to find them closed and not even a sure time of when they’re opening again.
Did you try and contact your GP and try to get some sort of sense out of the situation?