Not as serious as doctor’s receptionists but also very annoying, are chatty post office staff. I learned from a neighbour to get my foreign currency from the post office in a nearby town, rather than our local village sub branch! Always a bit of a queue, so any potential burglars could listen in to our chatty local postmistress making conversation, but which felt more like a third degree inquisition on why I needed dollars, when I was going, how long was I going for? Just very friendly, but should have left the customer to volunteer any information! And of course, if you are posting parcels these days, you have to say what’s in them, and how much it’s worth!
Did anyone just listen to the piece on delirium on Radio 4? Scaringly surreal.
I always thought that I didn't fear old age and getting dementia or whatever IF wherever my brain took me was a 'good place' - ok it may not be everyone else's version of reality, but I could still be happy. If it was a bad place, then that's a different matter - and how can anyone know even after it happens?
When my wife was in the last few weeks of her illness in a hospice, she was very heavily sedated against the pain. She obviously went into her own 'world' as she would randomly speak of her family and sometimes of a woman called Jeanette who was in the cupboard (what cupboard?). On a few occasions I asked the staff if my wife was 'in a good place' and how could anyone know if the drugs locked the person in a good or bad place. All I ever got - and presumably this is all that was known at the time - was that my wife was just sedated and just free of pain and that she was 'good'. And that's what everyone wants to believe isn't it - and what can you do anyway? - have pain instead? Catch 22 - pain or potentially have delirium that MAY take you someplace and you don't have any control as to where.
Listening to that programme, what is actually known about sedation and what those drugs actually do to the brain? They were saying that they thought that 50% of the people who went into ICU could potentially suffer from delirium caused by the organ damage/procedures/drugs used - but that estimate went up to 90% during the months (so far) of covid.
What was strange to me - is that I thought any sort of delirium like that was like having a bad dream and that the dream faded as soon as you 'woke up'. But the people on the show who had suffered from delirium seemed to remember in detail the places that their brain had taken them to.
I know someone who experienced delusions when she was in hospital under sedation, and now that she's recovered she says that the delusions are like real memories - when one of them pops up in her mind she has to consciously tell herself that it's not real.
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...what sort of brain does that Dove? Did the cakes have boxing gloves on? Southpaw? Did you win in the end on a TKO? If that happened to me, I'd make sure I never got caught on the ropes.
🤣 It was really nasty @steveTu ... apparently I was waving my arms around trying to fend them off ... it's all a bit of a blur really ... and a veeeeeeeeeeeeeery long time ago ... but then hubby noticed some concern as to whether I'd had a 'double dose' by mistake ... but back then you didn't say anything as long as you survived relatively intact ...Â
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Listen to the R4 thing Dove - some of it was semi-humorous to the listener (well, to me as a sick minded person brought up on Monty Python's graphics), but it must have been absolutely terrifying to the poor sod suffering from it. One person thought the nursing staff were going to eat them. Makes me wonder who Jeanette was and why she was in the cupboard. It's not funny at all though is it?
Hmmm .... might give that one a miss for the time being thanks @Steve 309 ... a dear friend's husband has severe and rapid onset dementia ... and I've been there with a parent ... Might possibly give it a 'look' when we get back from our holiday ...... or possibly notÂ
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@NorthernJoe as I suspected smaller surgeries are different my only experience is of larger ones which are the norm where I live.Â
I would only repeat that if you disagree with a policy, any policy, at your surgery, speak to the doctor rather than  criticising the receptionists who are just doing what they are told to do.Â
One small and one large. The large one was the worst offender with the receptionist shouting out what the patient had told get from the other end of the line.Â
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Always a bit of a queue, so any potential burglars could listen in to our chatty local postmistress making conversation, but which felt more like a third degree inquisition on why I needed dollars, when I was going, how long was I going for? Just very friendly, but should have left the customer to volunteer any information! And of course, if you are posting parcels these days, you have to say what’s in them, and how much it’s worth!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Might possibly give it a 'look' when we get back from our holiday ...... or possibly notÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I really need to make my posts clearer as people seem to misread what I post.Â