MEDICAL MATTERS

[Gloria]

[PanBiker]

Looks promising Wendy.

[Stanley]

What a sensible way to attack the problem and what a good outcome! I often think that the drugs I take might be affecting me but haven't the courage to start experimenting, I just put up with the possible disadvantages.
Give Col my best and I think he is very lucky to have you.... but he doesn't need to be told that!

[Cathy]

Good news for Col

[Big Kev]

Excellent news

[PanBiker]

Started with an involuntary cough early evening which lasted all through the night. My smart watch said I got to the heady heights of two hours light sleep! Consequently I have felt rubbish all day, I ache all over and and slightly flushed. Still coughing for England when I got up at 08.30.

Picked at my breakfast and dinner so not had a lot to eat, not had tea yet. Supposed to be running a Bosom Friends game up at the Dog tomorrow for their fun day but I doubt I will make it. Sally and Debbie one of our shop volunteers will run it if I still feel crook.

I did a Covid test this morning but it came up clear.

[Stanley]

I hope it improved Ian.....

[PanBiker]

Got much better sleep last night but not out of the woods just yet. Still coughing but not a violently thankfully, I think I may have strained the muscles in my side or cracked a rib. Food is not interesting at the moment either, small bowl of cereal for breakfast and I have just had a bowl of home made rice pudding which I made the other day for lunch. I think I will survive though.

[Tripps]

I think I will survive though.

Good. . . . Well done - pleased to hear that - keep up the progress.

[Big Kev]

Got much better sleep last night but not out of the woods just yet. Still coughing but not a violently thankfully, I think I may have strained the muscles in my side or cracked a rib. Food is not interesting at the moment either, small bowl of cereal for breakfast and I have just had a bowl of home made rice pudding which I made the other day for lunch. I think I will survive though.

I've had blocked sinuses since having Covid at the end of February. I think it's gone then, a couple of days later, they're blocked again. Fortunately it's not affected my appetite. I've been using Sudafed Sinus Ease spray, works wonders and clears my bunged up nose for around 6 hours. I run out of it and went in search of some in Sweden last week, fortunately the active ingredient xylometazoline hydrochloride looks the same on the label in Swedish
Get better soon Ian.

[Wendyf]

Many, many years ago Colin built an ioniser for my dad which was plugged in beside his bed and helped to clear his sinuses. It might be worth considering. I think it was a project in an early issue of Elektor magazine along with the magnetiser which Mum used to ease her arthritic pains for at least 30 years!

[Big Kev]

Many, many years ago Colin built an ioniser for my dad which was plugged in beside his bed and helped to clear his sinuses. It might be worth considering. I think it was a project in an early issue of Elektor magazine along with the magnetiser which Mum used to ease her arthritic pains for at least 30 years!

I did look at one but there was a safety warning for people with allergies and respiratory issues. It put me off...

[Stanley]

My problem is simply my age. Is there a bedside gadget that can improve that situation?
I hope you all return to health quickly! (Ready for the hot weather that's coming..... )

[PanBiker]

Coughing better as they say (ribs still hurt though) and the slight temperature I was running is back to normal so feeling a lot better.

[Big Kev]

Coughing better as they say (ribs still hurt though) and the slight temperature I was running is back to normal so feeling a lot better.

[Stanley]

Margaret has picked a cold up somewhere. She was going to call for me this morning and we were going to go to Waddington to see my old boss Richard Drinkall but she has put the trip off so as not to give the cold to any of us crumblies!
So there must be something going round. I'd rather not have it thank you! Glad you are improving Ian.

[Big Kev]

After several weeks of blocked sinuses, and being unable to get an appointment with an NHS doctor, I checked the details of my medical insurance and have access to a GP. It's not 'face to face' but a video consultation. I made the appointment at 10am this morning, the first available was 11:40. A diagnosis of chronic sinusitis was made, a private prescription (£10) for ABs was sent to a chemist in Colne which I collected at 12:30. I was advised to stop using the Sudafed, as the active ingredient can actually make things worse with too much use, and to use a steroid nose spray. A bottle of Beconase hayfever spray from Sainsbury's for £5 and hopefully all should be sorted in a few days

[Stanley]

I hope it all works Kev. I know how miserable problems like that can be. I think of my daughter Susan and her sarcoidosis and migraine.
What puzzles me is why the GP service has got so bad so quickly. We are told it is because of a shortage of doctors but in these smaller practices you'd think there would be a bit of slack. I wonder if the doctors that remain are working shorter hours?

[Tripps]

This is "worth a look". Pfizer are being sued by the State of Kansas. Here's their Attorney General spelling it out.

Kansas sues Pfizer

[Big Kev]

I hope it all works Kev.

Sinuses cleared in 5 days.

[Stanley]

David, I've enough on my plate without worrying what is happening in the State of Kansas!
Kev, good! Glad it worked. I see pollen forecast is VH today.....
Margaret's cold turned into a chest infection so she has been keeping away from me, and then of course there was the big wedding.

[Tripps]

I've enough on my plate without worrying what is happening in the State of Kansas!

Replies pompously -

To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's pain;
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
— Thomas Gray, Stanza 10

[Stanley]

A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
(Alexander Pope)

[Stanley]

See THIS Guardian report which goes some way to explain the puzzle I was voicing the other day about the difficulties with GP appointments.
More than four in five locum GPs in England are unable to find work with a third forced to leave the NHS because they cannot make ends meet, a survey has found. A survey of 1,852 locums, conducted by the British Medical Association (BMA), found that 84% cannot find work despite patients across the country waiting weeks for GP appointments. The study also found that more than half are considering a career change owing to a lack of work, while a third (33%) have made definite plans to work in a different career away from the NHS. Just under a third (31%) of respondents said that the lack of suitable shifts was leading them to leave the NHS entirely, while 71% said the government funding model was to blame for the levels of unemployment.
No wonder valued staff like my grand daughter Jess are leaving the NHS for jobs abroad.

[Stanley]

I went to Well for my meds and found that the repeat prescriptions had run out and nobody had informed me or done anything about it. I went to the surgery and they say an emergency prescription will be issued.
Deep Joy!