Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

Used to go to the weekly Coffee morning in the village but the Covid pandemic put paid to that. It did start up again but somehow I never get round to attending. The "stay at home" policy seems to have had a long lasting effect for some.

 

But that's fine @shiney you send cards to people that are still actively in your life and ones you wish to still socialise with even if that is over the computer. Half of the people my mother sends cards to, she probably wouldn't notice if she walked past them in the street.
When I had chemo, I was sat there all tethered to the machine and my god mother walked past. We made eye contact and smiled but she had no idea who I was and still to this day didn't know she saw me. This is despite her being my mother's oldest friend, who she still regularly meets for lunch.

 

I will also just mention that most of the people I've met that have had really bad flu this year are ones who had the flu jab. Our neighbour is a district nurse and she said that the jab just doesn't help very much as they got the strains wrong this time. It been laying people out for anything from 2-4 weeks here.

 

It has, we are all creatures of habit. The lockdown changed our routines and patterns, some just don't realise by how much. I have had a few customers ask why I had changed our opening hours, we always used to open at 9am but due to social distancing we changed our hours to 10am when we were allowed to re-open. I have had quite a few customers come down well before 10am expecting to be served, saying they were served before 10am last year. They just don't realise how time flies, they think they have visited the G/C last year, when actually they haven't, the 10am opening has been in place since May 2020.

 

@gks - yes - "Long Covid" is not just physical but mental too altho that is not always taken into account.

 

I changed during covid but only because I was put on furlough and I had already stated when I was going to retire 12 months earlier, it turned out I never went back to work.

In some ways I wish I had gone back, seemed a poor way to end my working life.

 

@Obelix-Vendée Just turning up at A&E is great in theory but the wait there is longer than she can cope with too! Add to that, they'd check her notes, see what's happening with her GP and refer her back to the surgery. That's basically what happened when she got a physio appointment but was in too much pain for them to examine her. Not referred for a scan, sent back to the GP.

 

If she went to A&E and collapsed they'd have to help her. Surely!

 

They did me! Quick shot of morphine, onto a trolley and then a CT scan (hours later but not their fault, there was a strike on).

 

Talking of strikes can anyone make any sense of this doctors strike, I cant get my head around the doctors saying they cant get jobs, then the NHS employs foreign doctors because they say there is a shortage of doctors.

Who's telling porkies, they can't both be right.

 

As I understand it, they increased the number of university places for doctors some time ago but there aren't enough graduate level jobs for them to go into. I guess more senior levels still have a shortage.

 

Ok, thanks, but they were also saying lots want to be GPs but there aren't the places, unyet the NHS says GPs are overworked and we need more.

So is the government the problem, they keep saying how much extra money they are throwing at the NHS but we never seem to have enough GPs or surgeries.

 

I heard from someone locally that her daughter in law was about to start her first shift working in McDonalds. She had recently qualified as a nurse, but the only job vacancy she could find was as a district nurse, but as she couldn’t drive, she was ineligible. It sounds criminal.