Self isolation support group

[Mallard60022]

7 hours ago, Killybegs said:

From tomorrow my wife starts back nursing (three 5 hour days a week) having answered the call for retirees to return to work. This means we are going to have to self isolate from one another. That should prove interesting! 

You tell her from us here in Duck Towers that she is a true legend and that we send her all our love, best wishes and virtual hugs. What a thing to do; may you both live long and prosper. Thank you.

Phil

[Mallard60022]

8 hours ago, Killybegs said:

From tomorrow my wife starts back nursing (three 5 hour days a week) having answered the call for retirees to return to work. This means we are going to have to self isolate from one another. That should prove interesting! 

From next Monday, my prospective Occupational Therapist DIL is 'forcibly' redeployed from her Mental Health Support and Rehabilitation Unit (that has been shut and the Patients' sent home/elsewhere FFS), along with her O.T. team, to work front line in the Wards at Doncaster Royal. We are very concerned as the situation sounds very badly planned indeed, in fact panic planning, but I am telling her that if she decides to tell them to stuff it because there is no PPE for her and her staff and leaves to go and do something more useful like Caring for folk in a Mental Health Unit elsewhere then I will support her. She isn't the only person in the NHS that we know of that is being treated shabbily as we have many friends and associates still working or retired, whose mangers are treating them very badly indeed. These skilled people are just being put at risk because 65+ thousand Nurses have left the NHS since 2016. If anything happens to these redeployed professionals then their specialist skills and experience are lost for years as  will be the vital services, they provide in normal times, for years to come. Shocking.

Associated Professionals to the Nursing and Doctoring sections in hospitals are not Nurse trained and could easily just get in the way of those that are and could actually cause danger through inexperience. If they are going to be supporting (say) elderly Dementia patients, or Stroke patients to release Nursing Staff to go elsewhere then that would be OK and sensible. We await her response next week poor girl.  Very challenging times indeed. Again, all the best.

P

[Theakerr]

Had my 1st ever telephone/e consultation with my Doctor today.  Had to take some pictures of the problem to send to him.  This was both and interesting and challenging but did succeed.   Prescription has been e-mailed to the Pharmacist who will then deliver it to my door.   At times I miss the sophistication of a big city but at other times I am so happy I live in a small town.  Also placed my 2nd e grocery order and it will be delivered tomorrow.  For modelling I am busy airbrushing chassis (what is the plural of chassis?) so that I can start on the body.  Also might get round to writing an article on my station stop system.  Oh Yes the Sun is out, it's about 14C and the snow is receding a a very pleasant rate.

[raymw]

plural= same

[polybear]

several chassis....

[melmerby]

51 minutes ago, raymw said:

plural= same

Except pronunciation, like: singular chassee, plural chassees.

[Nick C]

20 hours ago, Free At Last said:

Day 21 of self isolation.

Today I melted an ice cube with my mind just by staring at it. It took longer than I thought it would.

Try again in the summer when the weather is nicer - you'll be in a better frame of mind and will find you can do it quicker.

[Baby Deltic]

[Chris116]

1 hour ago, Baby Deltic said:

Still smoother than the M6 through Birmingham!

[Killybegs]

Our local hospital has solved the problem of staff having to self isolate from their families at home when off duty by booking them into a local hotel just down the road from the hospital. Congrats to the owner for opening the hotel for them, hope it works out.

[boxbrownie]

9 minutes ago, Killybegs said:

Our local hospital has solved the problem of staff having to self isolate from their families at home when off duty by booking them into a local hotel just down the road from the hospital. Congrats to the owner for opening the hotel for them, hope it works out.

Indeed, there are a lot of health authorities doing that.......why not the hotels are empty/shut anyway.

[Mallard60022]

On 07/04/2020 at 19:13, Mallard60022 said:

From next Monday, my prospective Occupational Therapist DIL is 'forcibly' redeployed from her Mental Health Support and Rehabilitation Unit (that has been shut and the Patients' sent home/elsewhere FFS), along with her O.T. team, to work front line in the Wards at Doncaster Royal. We are very concerned as the situation sounds very badly planned indeed, in fact panic planning, but I am telling her that if she decides to tell them to stuff it because there is no PPE for her and her staff and leaves to go and do something more useful like Caring for folk in a Mental Health Unit elsewhere then I will support her. She isn't the only person in the NHS that we know of that is being treated shabbily as we have many friends and associates still working or retired, whose mangers are treating them very badly indeed. These skilled people are just being put at risk because 65+ thousand Nurses have left the NHS since 2016. If anything happens to these redeployed professionals then their specialist skills and experience are lost for years as  will be the vital services, they provide in normal times, for years to come. Shocking.

Associated Professionals to the Nursing and Doctoring sections in hospitals are not Nurse trained and could easily just get in the way of those that are and could actually cause danger through inexperience. If they are going to be supporting (say) elderly Dementia patients, or Stroke patients to release Nursing Staff to go elsewhere then that would be OK and sensible. We await her response next week poor girl.  Very challenging times indeed. Again, all the best.

P

Such better news today ….of sorts. It turns out that of my DIL's team only two (including her) are left available to work for the time being as all her other colleagues have either got the V or they have had it and are SI or they have resigned. The Hospital were told by my DIL that their plans to discharge patients from any Department to create bed space, without any assessment of the situation for the Patient once discharged, was actually 'illegal' as well as dangerous!  Lo, the Hospital have created a Rapid Response Team of 'Allied Professionals', along with the patient's Consultant to assess the patient they consider discharging and to create the correct circumstances so that patient receives support, equipment and Rehab if required. Bit of a change from being on the loading corpses into body bags gang! Someone at the Hospital has their head screwed on even if it is only to prevent litigation.

She is told that the correct PPE for her and her colleague (if she survives) will be there for them for the next Tuesday start.

We are now a little less stressed about her and her daughter and our son.

Bless you all again and to anyone that is maybe not having such consideration given to them about their roles in healthcare then stay strong and never forget what they have been doing at this time.

Phil

[Joseph_Pestell]

10 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

or they have resigned. 

 

Not that I would blame them in the circumstances, but this is newsworthy...and a rather different narrative from the one that is being promoted.

[Mallard60022]

13 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

Not that I would blame them in the circumstances, but this is newsworthy...and a rather different narrative from the one that is being promoted.

The few that resigned were OT or PT Assistants who can get alternative work elsewhere in and around the area. Very capable people but not Professionally 'qualified' and have no Association to act for them and they are probably not in a Union who could stand for them regarding conditions of service. Their decisions sound like 'desertion', however not so as they responded to irrational decisions by 'management'. They would probably get more money working for Asda and they have kids.

There we go, that's how things happen I suppose.

Back to other things, did I mention that I saw the first House Martin in our road on Monday afternoon? Single bird and I haven't noticed it today. WE used to get over 50 pairs here 12 or so years ago. Down to about ten pairs last season.

P

[Theakerr]

Received my e ordered groceries today, no cucumber thought.  This is the second week that they have not had cucumber - must be a reason but with hydroponics I would have thought them an easy grow.  Also received some Tomato seeds.  Normally I would buy ready started plants but this year who knows what will be available.  So I thought I would have a go at starting my own plants.   Bit of an experiment.  Otherwise same old same old

[Mallard60022]

31 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

Not that I would blame them in the circumstances, but this is newsworthy...and a rather different narrative from the one that is being promoted.

re Hereford, my other DIL, that lives in that fair City out on the west side by Tesco, was telling me at the weekend about the strong Police presence on the road into the City from her patch. I suspect they were probably on all roads in and out but that would be a lot of officers?

P

Edited April 8, 2020 by Mallard60022

[Baby Deltic]

2 hours ago, Chris116 said:

Still smoother than the M6 through Birmingham!

Toll or old M6?

[Chris116]

1 minute ago, Baby Deltic said:

Toll or old M6?

The old one on the flyover made of concrete sections. As an aside I once moored under the M6 on the canal and it was only in the morning that we found that we were next door to a rather large prison!

[Baby Deltic]

12 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

The old one on the flyover made of concrete sections. As an aside I once moored under the M6 on the canal and it was only in the morning that we found that we were next door to a rather large prison!

It was ok back in the day when you got held up near Bescot yard when it was well stocked especially with the rows of withdrawn class 20's, 25's and 31's over the back.

[Baby Deltic]

[Colin_McLeod]

Is that O scale?

[Baby Deltic]

3 minutes ago, Colin_McLeod said:

Is that O scale?

I reckon the three Kings (O gauge).

[Colin_McLeod]

Would that be three kings of Orient?

[Baby Deltic]

[Killybegs]

1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said:

re Hereford, my other DIL, that lives in that fair City out on the west side by Tesco, was telling me at the weekend about the strong Police presence on the road into the City from her patch. I suspect they were probably on all roads in and out but that would be a lot of officers?

P

As of this morning, the Garda (Police) have been manning road blocks around the country and turning back anyone who had no valid reason to be travelling. This includes the two main crossing points between NI and Donegal and will hopefully stop the Easter exodus to second homes. The two or three back roads crossing the border could get fairly busy. There have been reports of people travelling in the middle of the night earlier in the week to avoid attracting attention.