Off Topic Covid 19 restrictions have done one

I'd rather have Corona, at least I'd die happy!

 

Get it wrong and you'd need the coroner...

 

Thanks

 

Rate your L-R chances? The brew has a choice too. Not so easy is it?

 

Given the wet climate in my adoptive Country I'd be compelled to go left....

 

I know what this is. After a few beers and chasers ya beer goggles kick in and you start with the lady in blue, then the next morning she mysteriously changes into Carlsberg Quasimodo.

 

how many cancer sufferes have missed chemo due to hospitals acting like covid is rabies?
how many people have died due to missed hospital tests, scans and surgery?
it's a huge number, genuinely unprecedented

i got a lump in my testicle found during an exam, a letter was sent for a scan
i was worried,after a month of waiting,i couldn't take it anymore so i paid for a private scan about £300, took a week for the scan and 3 days for the results
phew i didn't have cancer, just a cyst
still no nhs letter for it, if i kept waiting, could be another 6 months till a nhs scan, and imagine it was the worst

 

kinda sad
in a so called first world country

 

If you did have pancreatic cancer you would probably have been a goner by then. A girl I had known since youth club days hadn't been in the pub for a couple of weeks and I wondered where she was. Turned out she had gone to the doctor because she was feeling tired. No other signs. He ran some tests, called her back in and said that he was sorry but she had pancreatic cancer and she has 6 months at best. She died 6 weeks later. Her husband said no signs at all, just tiredness which she put down to work.

 

Those of you fretting about the backlog building up of non-Covid treatments - it’s a legitimate concern, but what would you be doing differently if you were in charge?

 

I posted my views previously, and later looked and found that they match up well with the views of the experts in the WHO, who state that lockdowns are not an effective measure in tackling the virus, as they are only a holding measure while a more robust scheme is put in place.

They advocate a stricter track and trace regime, with more robust isolation measures, supported by more focused health care of those infected, while everyone else gets on with their life with strict distancing and hygiene procedures in place.

 

The length of time you've had to wait yourself (6 months) is proof enough that on occasion the NHS is failing.6 months is a death sentence with these types of diseases and is totally unacceptable,let alone the mental anguish involved in sitting every day wondering if and when you may or may not receive life changing news..

I had dealings with the NHS last year for suspected prostrate cancer.Have to say it was dealt with somewhat quicker in terms of scan,MRI,diagnosis etc but the waiting for news was the worst.Thankfully,it appears that it's enlargement rather than anything sinister and the promise was to monitor it closely through PSA tests and Consultant input(telephone consultations etc), sadly that's ceased due to Covid...

 

The time delay also ignores the apparently large decline in the numbers of people that, as a consequence of covid, are not going to hospitals in the first place for a variety of mental and physical conditions.

 

I'd be instructing G.P's to get back to somewhere near normal,mine have a closed door policy,telephone appointments(if deemed serious enough) and on very limited occasion,a full on face to face with a GP clad in full riot gear.The field hospitals set up should have been mobilised to do what they were designed for instead of being locked up.

 

Last time I asked for the earliest appointment available to see my GP and was told it would be 23 days.

 

Sleeping with lots and lots of women.

and I wouldn’t care what kier starmer said in PM questions

Chazz is not for turning

 

Yes, they probably would. I was in an isolation room in hospital a few years back with a bad infection, hooked up to all sorts. At 3 am a fully gowned bloke came in and said he was going to take me down to theatre and put me under for an exploratory examination as pains .I was having and signs of jaundice were amongst the tick boxes for pancreatic cancer. I had to ask him if he had read my notes as because of the state of my lungs it is dangerous for me to have a general anaesthetic as it was very likely they wouldn't start up on their own again and I would be stuck on a ventilator. That was why they have not done a heart operationI needed. He was unaware of that. It was good to know they would have dealt with things so promptly whilst at the same time worrying about the lack of communication. When I told my doctor about it he said if you do have pancreatic cancer start saying your goodbyes as it shows so few symptoms in most cases that by the time it is diagnosed it is too late and in 90% of cases will be terminal.

 

That soon?