Sars-Cov-2 stuff

[pre65]

How are you today?

Fit as the proverbial fiddle.

[andrew Ivimey]

Then I'd find something else to worry about. Good.

[pre65]

Then I'd find something else to worry about. Good.

I don't want (or need) to find things to worry about.

[IslandPink]

My mum is getting her home visit vaccination on Saturday- hooray.
That'll be a first step towards normality for us.

[vinylnvalves]

Maybe we have got this to look forward to...https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ijing.html

[andrew Ivimey]

Well it's a larffff (and we could do with that):. Covid is a respiratory problem and someone wants to look up arses. Did I ever tell you about a lovely young registrar who wanted to put a device up my arse and....to cut a long story short I said I only did ears and she couldn't understand why I did not delight in ... well lower orifices... somewhere in the NHS this lovely person is a consultant exalting in what she loves so does best...oh my. I didn't, ah well.

Whatever next!

[Nick]

Covid is a respiratory problem and someone wants to look up arses.

Maybe not that strange.

Tracking COVID-19 with wastewater

[andrew Ivimey]

:No of course not. I was playing this for laughs. What little, relative to the young Registrar I mentioned, I know about the doings of the large intestine etc it is an amazingly valuable source of information and pathology as any doctor I the GUI dept would say about urology and STDs.

Don't we need a bit of good natured humour.. Believe me or not but even for a part time front line staff person like me there are days when humour gets one through to clocking off. Seeing a long term friend come back to work looking more than half dead and laughing about this bastard problem helps. A couple of weeks later he looks three times the surgeon he did then, just post covid - walking wounded I'd say and four times the good colleague and friend I've known for so long.

So yes of course there's things to tell us in the colon. Let's just get on eh!

[IslandPink]

The colon can tell us things - if we listen carefully.

[jack]

Well .. I had my first ever 'flu jab on Wednesday... Thursday I did my run but by the evening felt awful - shivering, cold sweats, the lot... felt totally rubbish...

I'm lucky that I haven't been ill at all in the last 30 years (and that was a brief but unpleasant bit of food poisoning after eating a dodgy curry from a street vendor in a jungle somewhere) , so was rather taken aback by the side effects...

Left arm is really sore too...

However was called up to get a lateral flow test at a nearby centre run by the army (REME). Huge setup - could easily do 1,000s of tests a day but they're only getting about 200/day coming in... Highly efficient setup - results came back in about 30 minutes.

Anyway, negative for both of us.

On the subject of colons, I have a nominative determinism story:

Many years ago my wife and I were backpacking in South America (she spent many years out there teaching) when she needed some antibiotics... We looked in our copy of the "South American Handbook" which was the essential guide and found a recommended doctor - this was in La. Paz.

When we saw him, he was a charming guy, spoke fluent English and had recently been in the UK working at St Marks in London - he told us he wasn't really a GP, he was a bowel specialist.

His name? Rene Colon....

Slightly more bizarrely, my wife's sister was a theatre sister at St Marks at the same time and had worked with this guy!

The world is really very small...

[andrew Ivimey]

It can be remarkably full of coincidence and chance good luck.

Yeah the jabs... Anna and I were done three weeks ago. I felt nothing at all and Anna was sore and unhappy for the next day. Nowt else though.

[izzy wizzy]

Well .. I had my first ever 'flu jab on Wednesday... Thursday I did my run but by the evening felt awful - shivering, cold sweats, the lot... felt totally rubbish...

I'm lucky that I haven't been ill at all in the last 30 years ...

Which makes me wonder why did you have a flu jab? I've been offered one but declined as I've never had flu.

[jack]

Because I was offered it and when I initially declined I got a letter from the NHS saying that I should have it...

Blindly, I took their advice!

My wife had genuine full-on 'flu a year ago and it put her out of action for weeks...

She does a lot of work with the homeless and the oldies in our area, so she's had the jab for years, but the evil 'flu she had was something most likely we bought back from Jordan so wasn't covered by the UK jab.

Made me realise the proper 'flu is nasty. Having the 'flu jab doesn't impact the surgery here as they have a production line handing them out ... I've never had real 'flu either, but then again, I don't want to have it if it's avoidable!

My symptoms were short lived. I'm fine today.

[Nick]

Which makes me wonder why did you have a flu jab? I've been offered one but declined as I've never had flu.

Just to be a bit pedantic, I have never gone through a window screen, but I still wear a seat belt.

[andrew Ivimey]

yeah that's the poverty of inductive logic...