Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[fossyant]

Colleague in the office has just tested positive. We were in with them on Tuesday. Fortunately I'm about 8m from them, but another colleague who sit's opposite is bricking it as they are supposed to be off to Lanzarrote next week.

 

[PK99]

Have you requested from the hospital/GP? Certainly my father is having his routine appointments and tests on NHS

Me too.

 

[classic33]

Have you requested from the hospital/GP? Certainly my father is having his routine appointments and tests on NHS

They were done as part of the treatment, ordered/requested by the specialists. They, appointments and tests, stopped when this started.

Not having a go at hospital staff as they've had more on their plates these last two years.

 

[vickster]

They were done as part of the treatment, ordered/requested by the specialists. They, appointments and tests, stopped when this started.

Not having a go at hospital staff as they've had more on their plates these last two years.

Have you tried contacting your Consultant’s secretary to get booked in? You may have just somehow slipped off the radar if there’s been no contact (presuming the tests are still important to have as part of ongoing treatment?)

 

[classic33]

Have you tried contacting your Consultant’s secretary to get booked in? You may have just somehow slipped off the radar if there’s been no contact (presuming the tests are still important to have as part of ongoing treatment?)

One department was closed early on, for another I'm awaiting a new specialist as the one I was seeing died, due to covid.
Seeing both for related reasons.

It's more the way that some have trivialised the last two years that's annoyed me.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I know were slightly OT & run the risk of being told to go to NACA (is that the correct acronym) but my daughter was waiting to be called in to see a specialist, after a very long wait she thought she'd enquire only to be told as she'd missed an appointment she wouldn't be seen.

She had no knowledge of this appointment & was never advised of it although they have her home number, her mobile number, her email & her home address.

 

[Dogtrousers]

It is OT @Phaeton but I'd just note your daughter is not alone. A friend of mine was being treated for kidney cancer (he's in remission now) and had a similar thing happen which was all very distressing for him and his family. It turned out that the root cause in his case it turned out they had somehow created a doppelganger of him in the records.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

£3.93 a week for LFT’s from Boots .... You want to test, you pay for it. (Based on twice weekly testing, other chemists are available)

More than whining motorists were prepared to pay extra each week for fuel and so fuel duty got reduced..,

 

[Alex321]

More than whining motorists were prepared to pay extra each week for fuel and so fuel dOn average, it will have been about the same.

I think on average motorists will have been paying about the same extra as that.

Petrol & diesel have gone up by over 20p/litre in the last few weeks.

At average mpg levels, that is about 200 miles to be £4 increase. I think average mileage is around 10K/year, which is 192 miles/week.

 

[cyberknight]

She could ask the care home to provide?
My employer is still going to provide LFTs for people going to the office

over 75s apparantly can still get them free ?

 

[Deleted User]

Can we get back to routine blood tests, I've not had any since October 2019.

Why, I have regular blood tests due to an ongoing gut problem.
I have the forms either sent to me or given at the time of my treatment then just use either the walk in centre or the Hospital.

 

[DaveReading]

over 75s apparantly can still get them free ?

No, only people in high-risk categories.

 

[vickster]

over 75s apparantly can still get them free ?

I’m not sure that was confirmed in the end as above. But I think @fossyant MiL has lots of health issues so she may be in the ECV group and he could get on her behalf

 

[fossyant]

I’m not sure that was confirmed in the end as above. But I think @fossyant MiL has lots of health issues so she may be in the ECV group and he could get on her behalf

MIL get's tested and free, but visiting her in the home we'll need to pay I think.

Anyway, checked in on some colleagues in office opposite, 4 are off with Covid at the moment in one team - not all caught at the same time/via each other. That's out of 7, and one other off with another illness.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Are they not for sale on Fleecebay, I would have thought there is a section of society who stockpiled them with little or no intention of using them & got them only because they were free.