General Chat

Afternoon all

Good to see you posting Sylvia but sorry to hear of your problems with hubby.
Am I right in thinking you will both be in the same place eventually just not in the same suite? If so at least that way, you can be together during most of the day and if you go out you can be assured he is being watched so cant wander off outside.

I hope it will all work out for you very soon. <3

I had an unexpected tel call today which lifted my spirits. It was from the Eye clinic in the hospital. The secretary rang me to say could i come at 10.30 on Thursday this week as they had a cancellation. I said yes immediately as I have been waiting since January.

After a 40 minute wait in a queue for patient travel, I got through and that's all booked for them to pick me up after 8am. She said this is for a pre clinic assessment and takes 30 minutes. I then will get a follow appointment with the consultant at some stage! if he feels its only routine cataract surgery I need(non urgent) it will likely to be next Spring before I get it!!! Urgent surgery could be by the end of the year!

At least its a step in the right direction.

Dry day here but still very windy and not that warm.

The phone calls I have had today have taken a large chunk of my time up and so my plans have all gone to wry. never mind the chores can wait now until tomorrow as too late in the day to start now.

Off to make coffee

Florence in the Hebrides

Just realised why i havent had a single text message from my daughter who is in town. No mobile signal since this morning!!

Thank heavens we still have a landline!

Have just found out that Vodaphone is down until 8pm 1st August!!
Its for essential maintenance apparently but why couldn't they have sent a text message in advance advising us of this???

Florence do you use WhatsApp? It uses internet rather than phone signal, so I would imagine that will still work. Unless anybody tells me I'm wrong, as I'm not 100% sure

Yes I do but dad has a "museum piece "of a phone that isn't a smart phone and his landline isn't working properly so I cant phone him.

Can do a WhatssApp call but the signal isn't great and often drops call in middle of a sentence!

So much for technology eh!

Afternoon everyone looking in.

Where is everybody as very quiet on here?

I have been for my eye assessment for cataracts and all went well. Hopefully get to see the surgeon next month, so progress at last.

Lovely sunny but breezy day here but at least no midges yay for that!

Not long home so lunch, a cuppa and then see what's to be done.

Florence in the hebrides

I am here :-D
Yesterday afternoon we took the girls to a local wildlife park. They enjoyed it and it helped their parents who are both working from home. OH came, so that was nice.

We had a lot if rain during the night, but the sun was back by late morning. My old next door neighbour came to see me this morning. so after a good natter here, we walked along the riverside into town. That took an hour, the last bit is very steep and it was so hot that it wasn’t fun. We had a very nice lunch in town, then walked back via the road which is only twenty minutes. It is very hot and humid, so,I am very tired

Tomorrow I am taking Esme’s to Lightwater Valley in my own, so that is going to be another hard day

Linda, that was nice of your old neighbour to come & visit you and then go for a lunch.

I have just looked at Lightningmaps.org and can see some strikes around Oxford area etc. Don't think we are going to get any thunderstorms up here are not hot enough!

Glad to hear your assessment went well Florence and hope you get your app. soon.

Our Drs surgery have started using PAs to see patients instead of the patients seeing the GP. Quite q few of us at the surgery are annoyed by this as had booked a GP app. ( well thought we had) but no it was with a PA but the staff didn't tell anyone. Looking up what a PA is I read that they shouldn't make appointments without the patients knowledge and consent . They can prescribe meds but then have to have the prescription signed by the GP. before it can be issued . Apparently they have 2 years training to do this where a GP has 10years but according to the receptionist they are the same as a GP.
Anyone else had this at their surgery.? How would you feel about it?

Linda your days always seem so busy you make me feel lazy. lol.

Hope you are all enjoying some sunshine. We had a real downpour early this morning but the sun arrived soon after but at least the plants got watered.

Take care all.
Ginnie

Glad to hear your assessment went well Florence and hope you get your app. soon.

Our Drs surgery have started using PAs to see patients instead of the patients seeing the GP. Quite q few of us at the surgery are annoyed by this as had booked a GP app. ( well thought we had) but no it was with a PA but the staff didn't tell anyone. Looking up what a PA is I read that they shouldn't make appointments without the patients knowledge and consent . They can prescribe meds but then have to have the prescription signed by the GP. before it can be issued . Apparently they have 2 years training to do this where a GP has 10years but according to the receptionist they are the same as a GP.
Anyone else had this at their surgery.? How would you feel about it?

Linda your days always seem so busy you make me feel lazy. lol.

Hope you are all enjoying some sunshine. We had a real downpour early this morning but the sun arrived soon after but at least the plants got watered.

Take care all.
Ginnie

Good afternoon. A nice day here today, it was sunny but not anymore though really warm even without the sun.

Goodness Linda, as busy as ever, if it's not work on the house it's doing things with the grandchildren, what a busy person you are.

Got the weekly shop done this morning, it didn't take long as I don't need very much these days.
I am still trying to use up the various meat produtcs in the freezer, not too much left now.

Our daughter had an accident today after we had done the shopping, whilst she was at my house she decided to check our water supply in the holding tank,to be sure there was plenty of water.
The tank is underground in a field next to the house with the lid lying almost level with the grass, the lid is quite large & made of cast iron & daughter usually deals with it no bother.

Today though on lifting it she caught it against the edge of the tank & the lid fell onto her left foot across all of her toes. Our very kind distant neighbour who helps me out many a time came to the rescue & took daughter to our local A & E, only to find it's no longer an A & E & informed her she would have to go through 101 & see what they have to say about it, it could mean she will have to travel to the big hospital in Aberdeen, approx 34 miles away, & at what time that might be heaven knows !!

We are constantly being told that Aberdeen hospital is overwhelmed & yet the powers that be are closing many of the local A & E departments & "sending" most folk to it regardless !!

I have my B12 jab appointment tomorrow & not sure how I am going to get there if daughters foot has a serious injury !!
Always something.

Joan.

Oh Joan, your poor daughter! Hope she hasnt broken any bones in her foot? Did she hear back from 101 yet?

Where do you have to go for your B!2 jab, is that local surgery? If necessary and its local, could you get a taxi or your kind neighbour take you?

Hope you hear soon.

It.s now very windy almost gale force here but still bright & some sun. I was watching the storms travelling up over Oxford into Gloucs but dont think they will come this far North so Joan & I will be ok!

JustGinnie, sorry forgot to comment on your question re GPs etc. If we ring for a dr appointment, the receptionist will ask many questions so she can determine if one actually needs to see a dr! I take great offence at this as it may be a private matter you would rather not discuss with a "non dr" member of staff.

They do it so less people actually take up the dr's time but...twice i have agreed to see a nurse(not recently) and then be told, I cant assist you, you will need to make a GP appointment to which I abruptly said once, "I did try telling the receptionist, I needed to see the dr, but she said she knew better."

If i thought a nurse could deal with a minor problem, then that's fine, but if i ask to see a GP, then it's because I need to.

I agree they need to weed out any "time wasters" but sometimes, its a step to far.

hello Florence, no, no cal from 101 yet, I can see her having to travel to Aberdeen & later today/tonight, it's what usually happens !

My jab is done at the Health Centre about 6 miles away, no "kind" neighbours, lol, I don't know the 2 nearest & not that near, & a taxi is far too expensive, I am not paying over £25 to get the jab done, will just have to wait & see how daughter gets on re 101 & take it from there.
If all else fails I reckon someone just might have to come out to me to do the jab !

The sun is out once again here,& still nice & calm.

Joan.

Hope your daughter hears soon and yes a nurse can come out to you i'm sure they can as you may have no way of getting to the surgery.

Oh dear, I hope that your daughter hasn’t broken her foot. It may just be badly bruised which will still be incredibly painful, but will heal quicker. Even so, she may not be driving for a while.

At my old practice we had a trained nurse associate who could see patients with a range of conditions and prescribe medication for those conditions. I saw her a few times and it was fine. She did chest infections, sinus problems, shingles etc. Some practices do now seem to have the PA’s who don’t seem to be as qualified as the nurse associate was. I don’t think I would want to be seeing them although everything they do is supposed to be supervised by the GP.
. We had a lot of rain overnight, but Iithas been incredibly hot and humid here this afternoon, no thunderstorms though. I don’t think they are forecast to come this far north

Morning all looking in.

What a blooming day! Gale force 8. torrential rain, the poor garden is getting battered.

So indoors today and anyway have plenty to catch up as was away a chunk of the day yesterday.
Just noticed my computer paper is running low eeek only 10 sheets left! I had 2x 500 packs of paper that has lasted well but didnt notice until today I need to restock. Thankfully i have a Tesco order next week so shall pop a pack on there. its a s cheap anything online really but it used to be £2.50 but not now.

Joan, how is your daughter? Did she need to go to A & E in Aberdeen?

I ordered a black tailored jacket from Klass and am delighted to say, it firs me perfect and so smart. The last one I bought from Next over 10 years ago but had really worn and needed to go. I had been searching for weeks and now I have found what I was looking for, so very happy and a bargain price too! :-D

Well a quick coffee and then see to me chores.

Shall look in later on

Florence in the hebrides

Hello to all.
Well now my daughter got a call back from 101 procedure, & it was suggested she would require an Xray, BUT the local Xray department was now closed & if she wanted to get it done straightaway she would have to travel to Aberdeen, or wait until today to have it done at our Health Centre.

She decided to go locally & after I got my B12 jab done she went for her Xray, fortunately there is nothing broken but the toes are a bit mushed up !
They can't do anything other than suggest she rests it.
Hopefully it will be on the mend very soon as she is such a busy girl.

I managed to get my B12 jab done & daughters Xray done thanks to the help of a friend of daughters, who picked us up & took us to our appointments, without her help we would have been stuck.

The friend is the wife of the young man who helps me a lot with household jobs that crop up from time to time.
Such a lovely couple, so kind.

Another hot sunny day for us again today, too hot for me, not sure I will mange going into the garden as it's just too warm for me to work in, what a difference in your weather Florence, hope your plants survive the battering.

Joan.

OH Joan, so pleased no broken bones and you both got your appointments done locally as so much easier. The young mans wife sounds a lovely lady, so glad she could help you both out.

Errr could you send some sun please lol :-D :-D

The only good thing about the rain is....i dont have to water the plants but given the strength of the wind, there wont be many flower heads left at this rate!

Just been busy with laundry and paperwork, that never ends!

Lunch now and then i'm making a cheese & potato pie for tea so will need to get peeling all those potatoes and grating carrots and cheese. Its does takes awhile to prepare and make the pie but well worth the effort.

You can have some sun from us Joan. It has been horrendously hot today and I took Esme to the theme park. She had a good day because another little boy she knows was there. They hyped each other up at the discos and stage shows, but they had fun. We manage to leave about 3.30 after the last stage show, she doesn’t realise that there is another disco session and foam party before the park actually closes at five. It was all I could do to make sure that Arthur didn’t tell her. We arrive about 10.30 am, so she is tired by mid afternoon as I am

I am glad that you managed to get to the doctors Joan and that your daughter isn’t more badly hurt.