She is an ex nurse herself, but due to her hip and leg problems she had to give it up years ago, one leg is slightly shorter than the other, but she’d always wanted to be a nurse so went ahead anyway, in the in she realised that she physically couldn’t do it.
“The GP service isn’t fit for purpose. The out of hours clinic doesn’t even have a trained GP here. The nurse practitioner was reading notes on renal colic to try and work out if that’s what my pain was or if it was a deep back muscle! The whole system needs a ruddy good shake up because so many people are being failed by it now. It’s dangerous.
That’s something which made me cross yesterday - absolutely no follow up mentioned. I was obviously in severe pain because I couldn’t sit still and it had been ongoing for four days but all I got was a prescription for codeine and told to go to A&E if it got worse. There is absolutely nothing right about GPs now. So many people are going to fall through the cracks.”
Pat of today’s update.
She said the pain was so bad it was frightening, I know what she means, been there myself, and it does become scary if bad enough. Which is why it’s so important to either have proper pain relief or someone to be with the patient to try and keep them calm.
Had message from friend in England today, after asking how was re the farce I posted yesterday or whenever it was. Says she is a bit better, but she is like me in that painkillers don’t work, and in her case also make her sick, her husband was rubbing Deep Heat into the sore part to see if might help, she could not even lift her bum off the bed to get at her hip at all. She said she felt like hell, the pain was horrendous, but feels improvement today. But all she got was go to A&E if gets worse and no offer of any follow up appointment or anything, and just a nurse on end of a phone, reading out do you feel this or that from a sheet. She had had 4 days of this too and has been abandoned, sounds like the GP there is on point of complete collapse, never mind the rest of it.
Ok, as long as it’s helping. I wish Johana still came up here, it was a case of oh God, nooooooooooooo when she stopped.
How much longer are you seeing the acu for, is it a set period or just keep going as long as have to?
That’s good, hope it keeps improving.
I haven’t, not a fan, after seeing all the raves about him I thought I’d give it a go, I quite like a cosy/semi cosy mystery type thing on a cold winter’s day, but for the life of me I could not get into it, never finished it, thinking maybe just that one so tried another, nope, just not for me at all.
They are so cute.
Flick…my friend has never ending sister problems…she’s a hell beast… and since their dad died she ended up having to block her and the bro in law…he was a shite in school too…on phone etc, due to their appalling behaviour.
What Flick says, and they are gorgeous.
Police Scotland are under fire for falling short of their commitment to end violence against women after a man who attacked a woman at a rally in Aberdeen was handed a caution.
Neale Hanvey, the Alba MP, in a letter to deputy chief constable Jane Connors, raised his fears of the force’s response accusing it of breaching its own strategic commitment to take violence against females seriously. Mr Hanvey said he was “alarmed” by the “apparent dismissal” of the incident.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/05/jk-rowling-airbrushed-museum-of-pop-culture-seattle/
On the author’s induction in 2018, a year before she first publicly expressed her views on trans issues, MoPOP described the Harry Potter books as “beloved” and published a three-paragraph biography of Rowling outlining her literary achievements.
In his post, Moore also accused Rowling of “fat-shaming”, a “lack of LGBTQIA+ representation” and using “racial stereotypes” in her books.
Fuckers! How dare they.
Does anyone on here ever use Next? I don’t very often but every single bloody time have ever tried to log into my account it says it does not recognise it and I have to make a new one.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66247854
The issue has been a hot topic of debate in the country since a tabloid newspaper published a story claiming that a well-known business tycoon - who had several wives and mistresses - had a row with one of his spouses, prompting him to request paternity tests that reportedly said he was the biological father of only 15 of his 25 children.
The tycoon and his family have never commented publicly, and the report has not been independently verified.
But the story spread like wildfire and has caused huge controversy over the last few months, prompting some lawmakers to make an emotional appeal to men to stop putting their families and children through the trauma of tests.
“Let’s live like our forefathers lived. The child born in the house is your child,” Minister of Mineral Development Sarah Opendi said in parliament. Although she qualified her statement by adding that if a man wanted a paternity test it should be done when a child is born - not when they are grown up.
Yes, it’s a very serious and horrible thing, and sometimes medication is definitely required, especially if it is puerperal psychosis, but they are always far to ready to pill as opposed to a holistic take on what all is going on there. Sometimes there are a great many things at play that are more than meets the eye.
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A story from my aa meetings one of the regulars high school friend would get checked into the wards purposely for he called His Vacation and plenty of sexual assault In one of the Chicago Coed metal wards.
Doesn’t even slightly surprise me.
The Living Hell of a Mixed Sex Psychiatric Unit
I was scared as soon as I set foot on the ward because I was surrounded by men. I am in a wheelchair so it is significantly harder to defend myself; I cannot run away, I am defenceless. The men were 6ft plus and stocky. They themselves were unwell and threatening. What went on every day will stay with me forever. What was going on daily was; men would come up behind us and touch our necks, kiss our necks, touch our breasts and further below, attempt to kiss us on the mouth and were generally in our personal space at every opportunity.
That’s what I experienced and what I saw happen to others, though it seemed to happen to me an awful lot – maybe because I was an easy target. I can only dread what went on that I did not see. As the same-sex parts of the unit were only for sleeping, there was no escape in the daytime. It was a living hell. As someone with PTSD I was already on guard, but this made it 10 times worse.