COVID 2022

[Burgerman]

Maybe it was in power saving mode. You should avoid getting even omicron. Or the flu.

[sacharlie]

Leghorn I pass on to you what my DOC said to me at the latest visit.
HANG IN THERE

[Burgerman]

For what its worth one of my less bright carers turned up sneezing and coughing and runny nose/eyes a week ago. To cough/sneeze all over me to say he was going off ill. Needless to say that gave it to me. I have been struggling with the same thing, a flue/cold/green stuff on my chest and endless tiring coughing. He tested negative for covid. For 7 days.

I in turn have passed it to another carer... And now they are ill in bed. Covid not involved. Just keep away from deseased people.

Mines 90% gone. Self medicated, with doxycycline 200mg a day and ibuprofen. And I discovered that the only thing that stopped my coughing, and got my oxygen sats from an unsafe 88 to 89 up to a safer 95 was that oxygen concentrator. I would have called a doctor but I live in the UK.

[fishinjunky]

For what its worth one of my less bright carers turned up sneezing and coughing and runny nose/eyes a week ago. To cough/sneeze all over me to say he was going off ill. Needless to say that gave it to me. I have been struggling with the same thing, a flue/cold/green stuff on my chest and endless tiring coughing. He tested negative for covid. For 7 days.

I in turn have passed it to another carer... And now they are ill in bed. Covid not involved. Just keep away from deseased people.

Mines 90% gone. Self medicated, with doxycycline 200mg a day and ibuprofen. And I discovered that the only thing that stopped my coughing, and got my oxygen sats from an unsafe 88 to 89 up to a safer 95 was that oxygen concentrator. I would have called a doctor but I live in the UK.

thats scary. Im glad your doing better. Thats what terrifies me i have very little cough strength to get mucus up it settles in my lungs causing pneumonia an thats a common killer for us.

I get sick a lot if im out in close around large groups or around someone sick. Im not around many people at anytime though. Do you think that i build less immunities to illnesses being more isolated than the average person making me more likely to catch something?

i get so many urinary track infections and takin so many different antibiotics that a large majority of antibiotics no longer work on me. Im causing the evolution of more resilient bugs

[Burgerman]

thats scary. Im glad your doing better. Thats what terrifies me i have very little cough strength to get mucus up it settles in my lungs causing pneumonia an thats a common killer for us.

Ditto. No diaphram control. Weak cough. But I get this clear mucus thing about 8 hours after eating too much as well. No need for infecion!

[fishinjunky]

thats scary. Im glad your doing better. Thats what terrifies me i have very little cough strength to get mucus up it settles in my lungs causing pneumonia an thats a common killer for us.

Ditto. No diaphram control. Weak cough. But I get this clear mucus thing about 8 hours after eating too much as well. No need for infecion!

i get the clear mucus a few hours after eating also. Ive been trying to figure out the cause. Been to several specialist but none can figure it out but recently one of my doctors thinks it may be acid reflux irritating my esophagus causing over production of mucus in the throat. An the acid reflux is from me having G.E.R.D. The only option to fix the G.E.R.D is a surgery to tighten the sphincter muscle in my throat.

have you talked to doctors about it? im curious about different opinions. sometimes it feels like the doctors ive been to for it are just shooting in the dark. An its been really difficult finding a doctor that specializes in sci.

[Burgerman]

I live in the UK so the last doctor I saw was 14 years ago. We have a money sucking socialst health system. You cannot actually call your doctor.

[martin007]

I live in the UK so the last doctor I saw was 14 years ago. We have a money sucking socialst health system. You cannot actually call your doctor.

In Spain, since the appearance of COVID, nurses and doctors (civil servants) do not want to work.

[Burgerman]

Its been that way for decades here.

Even ambulances are now impossible.
The operator asks several quetions. If you are not blue or still breathing then you will be waiting a very long time.

A 60 year old woman fell off her bycicle at the junction near my carer martins house in ice a few months ago. At 7AM. Martin was awoken by the screaming so got dressed to see what was happening. She was laid in the middle of a junction. Cars skidding on the ice almost hitting her. So he blocked the road with his car and a neibours car. While calling an ambulance. She had a fractured femur or pelvis. It was minus 3C and icy. The emergency 999 operator said the ambulance would be approx 6 hours... (And it was. It literally turned up 6 hours after the accident).

So the neibours managed to get her onto a sheet. And lifted into an estate car rear with seat folded down. Instead.
And drove her to the accident and emergency hospital. To be met by a long line of ambulances that had been waiting since midnight or at least 7 hours. They had people with all kinds of injury and the hoospital wouldnt let them in. One in, one out. So they had to join a que. They were not even busy. All hanging about drinking coffee. Discusting situation.

I have a GP doctor that you cannot contact. This is extremely common. Who cannot get a prescription right for a regular 6 items, at anytime over the last 24 years. Maybe 4 or five times correct. Every other time they forget, or completely cock it up. When you email to tell them (cant call), they are not interested, and after much argument and back and forth they do a new one days later. When we turn up to collect this, they have forgot, or got it wrong. Frequently this happens 3 to 4 times every month. Complete incompetance.

My carer martin has been ill for 7 weeks with serious problems. He managed to see a doctor after 7 weeks trying, not his, but an emergency one, after literally hundreds of hours calling, turning up, and begging. And they sent him to the hospital for tests. The black doctor at the hospital told him that he shouldnt be there and his own GP should deal with it... Rinse and repeat.

The NHS is a sad joke. They sprinkle shit loads of cash in at the top, like dropped from a helicopter. Like all socialist organizations. But the staff, administrators, bosses and doctors are all perfectly happy. Because they get the same money regardless if they actually bother to see a patient. That is the lowest priority. We dont pay them the gov does. So they go in 2 mornings a week. And spend the time on a golf course or whatever. Leaving a bunch of frankly IQ test failures to do prescriptions and answer calls (one every 30 mins, and then they arange a call back by a doctor on one of the mornings he bothers to turn up.) Its all designed to make you give up as its all just impossible to deal with unless you are actually dieing.

Be careful what you wish for. This NHS has 8 MILLION of its 65 million population waiting over 12 months for treatment, tests, scans, etc. It has over 2 million waiting over 8 YEARS! And this incompetant and useless impossible to access "service" cost 20.5% of the gross national income.

It need scrapping, and privatising. Which doesent mean the massively over legislated non private US system. And no this has nothing to do with covid. Been this way decades.

[martin007]

Before COVID I had pain in the upper part of my jaw and an unknown infection that caused a lot of mucus.
The dentist (private doctor) rules out infection in the teeth / molars.
The family doctor (civil servant)) tells me that he does not know what the cause is, but that he does not prescribe anything.
I tell him to send me to the otolaryngologist.
I'm not sending you anywhere.
The solution was to pay €120 in private medicine.
120€ > private doctor + mucus analysis + antibiotics

[fishinjunky]

Its been that way for decades here.

Even ambulances are now impossible.
The operator asks several quetions. If you are not blue or still breathing then you will be waiting a very long time.

A 60 year old woman fell off her bycicle at the junction near my carer martins house in ice a few months ago. At 7AM. Martin was awoken by the screaming so got dressed to see what was happening. She was laid in the middle of a junction. Cars skidding on the ice almost hitting her. So he blocked the road with his car and a neibours car. While calling an ambulance. She had a fractured femur or pelvis. It was minus 3C and icy. The emergency 999 operator said the ambulance would be approx 6 hours... (And it was. It literally turned up 6 hours after the accident).

So the neibours managed to get her onto a sheet. And lifted into an estate car rear with seat folded down. Instead.
And drove her to the accident and emergency hospital. To be met by a long line of ambulances that had been waiting since midnight or at least 7 hours. They had people with all kinds of injury and the hoospital wouldnt let them in. One in, one out. So they had to join a que. They were not even busy. All hanging about drinking coffee. Discusting situation.

I have a GP doctor that you cannot contact. This is extremely common. Who cannot get a prescription right for a regular 6 items, at anytime over the last 24 years. Maybe 4 or five times correct. Every other time they forget, or completely cock it up. When you email to tell them (cant call), they are not interested, and after much argument and back and forth they do a new one days later. When we turn up to collect this, they have forgot, or got it wrong. Frequently this happens 3 to 4 times every month. Complete incompetance.

My carer martin has been ill for 7 weeks with serious problems. He managed to see a doctor after 7 weeks trying, not his, but an emergency one, after literally hundreds of hours calling, turning up, and begging. And they sent him to the hospital for tests. The black doctor at the hospital told him that he shouldnt be there and his own GP should deal with it... Rinse and repeat.

The NHS is a sad joke. They sprinkle shit loads of cash in at the top, like dropped from a helicopter. Like all socialist organizations. But the staff, administrators, bosses and doctors are all perfectly happy. Because they get the same money regardless if they actually bother to see a patient. That is the lowest priority. We dont pay them the gov does. So they go in 2 mornings a week. And spend the time on a golf course or whatever. Leaving a bunch of frankly IQ test failures to do prescriptions and answer calls (one every 30 mins, and then they arange a call back by a doctor on one of the mornings he bothers to turn up.) Its all designed to make you give up as its all just impossible to deal with unless you are actually dieing.

Be careful what you wish for. This NHS has 8 MILLION of its 65 million population waiting over 12 months for treatment, tests, scans, etc. It has over 2 million waiting over 8 YEARS! And this incompetant and useless impossible to access "service" cost 20.5% of the gross national income.

It need scrapping, and privatising. Which doesent mean the massively over legislated non private US system. And no this has nothing to do with covid. Been this way decades.

maybe I shouldn't be complaining.

[Burgerman]

The above is a true description of the state of our "marvelous" (the left wing media tell us how much we love it daily) NHS. Why? They love anything socialist. It doesent matter that it has completey collapsed. They keep on telling us its "free" to use.

Well it isnt. It actually costs more than the stated £192 billion each year. This is for only 65 million people. Its rather expensive, especially as it simply doesent work. But like anything socialist it all sounds so marvelous in the beginning. In 1948 when created by a socialist government (like your liberals) it was. But like all socialist things its very design causes it to produce less and less and cost more and more over time till it collapses.

[Scooterman]

National Hopeless Service