Just booked our covid jabs online and got them tomorrow. It is at a pharmacy some 6 miles away but I'd planned to go in that direction anyway. Didn't seem to be any available in Bath itself, which is a bit strange. Going to a big party at end of month so thought the earlier the better.
Catching up on the laundry after my trip away, and cleaned the bird baths. No gardening today, but not feeling guilty as the green bins are both full, will start again on Wednesday. I also got on the NHS website this afternoon, and booked our Covid jabs for tomorrow afternoon. Very pleased about that.
Have a wonderful holiday, @Hostafan1. Hope you’re not going from Exeter airport! Although I think they have dried out the terminal and resumed flights from there today.
Next week I am having my prostate cancer biopsy. Thirty six jabs in all; that’s darts practice not a biopsy!
Poor Ben, did they offer you an MRI? If not, I’d get on the phone to the consultants department immediately, and demand one. More accurate than the biopsy, and a lot less painful ( I haven’t had one myself, but OH assures me he didn’t enjoy it much)
I’ll confess, Ergates. I was offered an MRI scan but claustrophobia got the better if me and I could not go through with it. I now suffer the consequences but fortunately under general anaesthetic and the Prostate Professor doing the biopsy says he has done this procedure 3000 times before so I have confidence.
Inordinately proud of my achievement! I tidied the spice/ dried herbs/ baking stuff cupboards. We had long been at the stage of standbackbutbereadytocatch. Old spice( not aftershave) mixes dumped. Whole spices decanted into smaller containers. ( dried yeast tins with the plastic lids are brilliant). Loads of empty jars for my new-found fascination with preserving tomatoes. I'm easily pleased. P.S. I feel that I should be harder to please. Tips appreciated.
I can sympathise, @BenCotto! I have only had one MRI, and was quite blasé about it beforehand. I don’t suffer from claustrophobia, and as a retired dentist, used to reassuring others about far more scary and uncomfortable procedures. However, a combination of a very off hand technician, who didn’t bother to give me some basic information, earphones that didn’t work so no distracting music, and the fact that the two way intercom didn’t work, so I had no way of communicating, meant that I found it far more traumatic than it should been. So unnecessary. Luckily before a relative went for one, I suggested finding a YouTube video with sound effects, so there were no surprises. It worked well, as did making sure the operator could speak and respond during the procedure, and she was fine. If you have to have one in the future, could you ask for sedation? Sorry, this is hardly fit for the Reasons to be cheerful thread, should have put it in the Curmudgeons!
All the staff were lovely, Ergates. They were kind, reassuring and full of sympathy for my plight. But waiting 45 minutes in the changing cubicle did not help, the diazepam the GP prescribed had zero effect, l knew too much about MRI scans from my wife who has had at least 20, all on her head, there was no distracting music through the headphones or diverting art on the wall and, above all else, I was in quite a terrible mental state as my wife had just been given her terminal cancer prognosis.
And, as Ergates implies, it’s scarcely a reason to be cheerful. Sorry.
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I also got on the NHS website this afternoon, and booked our Covid jabs for tomorrow afternoon. Very pleased about that.
Have a wonderful holiday, @Hostafan1. Hope you’re not going from Exeter airport! Although I think they have dried out the terminal and resumed flights from there today.
We had long been at the stage of standbackbutbereadytocatch.
Old spice( not aftershave) mixes dumped. Whole spices decanted into smaller containers. ( dried yeast tins with the plastic lids are brilliant).
Loads of empty jars for my new-found fascination with preserving tomatoes.
I'm easily pleased.
P.S. I feel that I should be harder to please. Tips appreciated.
However, a combination of a very off hand technician, who didn’t bother to give me some basic information, earphones that didn’t work so no distracting music, and the fact that the two way intercom didn’t work, so I had no way of communicating, meant that I found it far more traumatic than it should been. So unnecessary.
Luckily before a relative went for one, I suggested finding a YouTube video with sound effects, so there were no surprises. It worked well, as did making sure the operator could speak and respond during the procedure, and she was fine. If you have to have one in the future, could you ask for sedation?
Sorry, this is hardly fit for the Reasons to be cheerful thread, should have put it in the Curmudgeons!
And, as Ergates implies, it’s scarcely a reason to be cheerful. Sorry.