I remember the late Geoff Hamilton exhorting viewers to keep up to date with tetanus jabs. So I had one soon after ( this would be in the 1980's ) and I think I had one ten years later, can't be sure though, but nothing since. Maybe the thinking has changed on regular vaccinations? If I ever get near a GP again I'll try to remember to ask.
If I ever get near a GP again I'll try to remember to ask.
Everything else is back to normal, except the doctors, I think they’ll drag this one out for as long as possible, much easier to give you a 5 minute phone call when they get 5 minutes spare than see you face to face.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
With amount I cut myself in the garden, I kinda figure I would have been dead long ago if it was a current threat to me. I seemed to have tetanus jabs every other week as a kid, so maybe I have several hundred years of protection whizzing around my system still. Maybe I have turned semi-mutant super-hero like Spiderman. No amount of fighting with rusty metal will kill me now! Ha Ha Ha (with echo).
(Said in jest - it is good to ask about current GP thinking on this).
Everything else is back to normal, except the doctors, I think they’ll drag this one out for as long as possible, much easier to give you a 5 minute phone call when they get 5 minutes spare than see you face to face.
Not that much is back to 'normal' in London, or it's a very odd kind of 'new normal', perhaps. I fear this winter will be anything but easy. Staff are exhausted, systems strained to breaking and a load of flu virus etc is waiting in the wings. We have fairly good access to depts in hospitals and GPs locally in person.
I'm constantly injuring myself in the garden, in all sorts of ways. Perfectly normal for me really. I barely notice it. I think it depends on the demographic of the area you live in too. Busy cities are going to have difficulties keeping up with demand, but very quiet, rural areas are the same, because there's less choice for doctor's surgeries, and less staff. A predominance of aging patients as opposed to younger, healthier ones makes a difference too. Horses are a bit different in their requirements from humans re tetanus. Mind you - there'll be a shortage of wormers soon with all those dafties across the pond using it to combat Covid. Not sure whether to laugh or cry at that ...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well over 50 years since I had one (and only the single dose), but that does seem to have been sufficient. I think I'll mention it when I go for a flu jab though, as rarely a week goes by without a cut or scratch appearing, often without me noticing until I see a tell-tale red smear on something I'm working on.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I very nearly cut the end of my index finger off last week while chatting and reach high up to deadhead flowers in a hanging basket. Deep and gushing. I managed not to redesign the wool stair carpet, this time, in the dash to antisceptic and plasters. Rusty, soil-filled, gashed finger - yeay!
I grew up on a farm then later Ilived on a smallholding ... we all had a tetanus jab every ten years and this continued into my adult hood ('70, '80' '90' 2000 then 2010) simple to remember and I would just ring and book a jab early in the year. Then when it got to 2020 the GP said that I'd be immune by now and would only need one in the case of a severe or contaminated wound.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@BobTheGardener - you and me both. I managed to drop a new saw on my leg last week. The cuts are still there on my shin. That's what I get for wearing cropped trousers to do DIY... Quick wash and a few plasters @Fire - it'll be fine.... I managed to chop into two fingers when I was cutting my Dad's hedge one year. I only had so much time to cut it all and I was in too much of a hurry and put the hedge trimmer down and moved before it had stopped moving. I had to bind it all up with several lengths of tape and bandage. Gaffer tape's good for that.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I find cotton wool, with Savlon and soft, Micropore surgical tape is better and cheaper than plasters. It's quite good for binding, if bits of you are hanging off, and handles gushing better than plasters. I buy in bulk these days.
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So I had one soon after ( this would be in the 1980's ) and I think I had one ten years later, can't be sure though, but nothing since. Maybe the thinking has changed on regular vaccinations?
If I ever get near a GP again I'll try to remember to ask.
Not that much is back to 'normal' in London, or it's a very odd kind of 'new normal', perhaps. I fear this winter will be anything but easy. Staff are exhausted, systems strained to breaking and a load of flu virus etc is waiting in the wings. We have fairly good access to depts in hospitals and GPs locally in person.
I think it depends on the demographic of the area you live in too. Busy cities are going to have difficulties keeping up with demand, but very quiet, rural areas are the same, because there's less choice for doctor's surgeries, and less staff. A predominance of aging patients as opposed to younger, healthier ones makes a difference too.
Horses are a bit different in their requirements from humans re tetanus. Mind you - there'll be a shortage of wormers soon with all those dafties across the pond using it to combat Covid. Not sure whether to laugh or cry at that ...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Quick wash and a few plasters @Fire - it'll be fine....
I managed to chop into two fingers when I was cutting my Dad's hedge one year. I only had so much time to cut it all and I was in too much of a hurry and put the hedge trimmer down and moved before it had stopped moving. I had to bind it all up with several lengths of tape and bandage. Gaffer tape's good for that.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...