Thank you for the prayers for my daughter. She was sent home but fortunately her lungs are clear and oxygen levels good, despite her discomfort. We are hopeful she can ride this virus out.
Thankful for the Beakys good friend finding provisions. Prayers ascending for all in need.
Me again. Please offer up prayers of comfort and reassurance for my friend H and her fiancé M who had brought their May wedding forward to this Saturday even though only 2 guests would have been allowed. Now after last night’s announcement this has been pushed back again to May. They are beyond disappointed.
(((Kate)))
I’m still not home as I had a high temperature and a bit of a cough, so I’m being barrier nursed until my test results come back. My suspicion is that it’s a sinus infection.
For all who loved M who died yesterday age 27. She had cystic fibrosis but I don't know if covid 19 was a factor in her death. For her husband, parents and brother especially.
She has gone to be with the Lord she loved.
Can I ask prayers again for my Giraffe. Now he knows he cannot come home from South Africa he is finding it hard. I expect it will improve, but tonight he is homesick, and I am son-sick.
<votive> For M and all who loved her
<votive> For @Cathscats and her Giraffe
<votive> For JJ's H
<votive> For all dealing with the novel coronavirus
<votive> For all in need
The disaster is big, and my problems are unworthy small.
tl;dr I have to take my mother for a hospital appointment tomorrow, so if she shouldn't go, I need something (benign) to happen that will stop us.
Long version: the Telemum has a hospital appointment for her blind eye tomorrow at 9am. I will put on her a mask, a disposable rain poncho, and nitrile gloves and will wipe down her shoes and get her to dispose of the gloves and poncho before she gets back into the car. She will need to go to the bathroom at least three times while she is in the hospital.
As you may or may not know, the pandemic has been managed in a very unserious manner in the UK, and hospital staff do not have protective equipment. I am very very scared about taking her into that environment.
Added to that she is weakened by four days of diarrhea and is dizzier than ever and nearly fell several times today, and I will have to hope she can cross a road and get to the right ward without my help. If we both get sick I may not be able to care for us. If I go in with her then at least one of us will get sick. Even if it's not that bad the in-house isolation will be unmanageable.
She cancelled an appointment for an ambulatory ECG, and it turns out tonight that she didn't understand it was a diagnostic for her dizziness, so she has most likely thrown away her chance of ever getting that properly treated. She cried. Not that it would have been safe to go to the hospital appointment for that, but so it goes.
I am trying to write my thesis within the next 5 days. I can only get a small amount of writing done every day because of the extra domestic workload the virus has imposed. I know I am far luckier than most.
I really need my project to be funded. If it is funded I can reasonably expect to be OK. If it is not, I'll be repeating the Great Unemployment of 2007 and 2008, but on a bigger scale.
And is the eye really apt to change or worsen in some way if she misses this appointment? Just wondering, as I myself have an upcoming eye appointment for glaucoma-ish situation, and will need to ask the doctor whether he thinks coming in is worth the risk.
🙏 Prayers for Rossweisse, Gallilit, idj, Robert Armin and anyone else dealing with cancer at this time;
🙏 For all dealing with the corona virus;
Hospitals are trying to treat people normally and not ignore all conditions that otherwise need treating. My daughter should have had two appointments this month. The rheumatology one due on 18 March was efficiently postponed, a few weeks in advance of the appointment, until July. The second, the immunology appointment, happening next week, is now a phone consultation and that's because it would otherwise take 3 hours on public transport to get there, tube, train and bus, and the same back. The Government is requiring us not to travel unnecessarily, but we can attend medical appointments. The hospital wanted her in, possibly because they cocked up and didn't give her the follow up appointment last August or any time in between, so they haven't seen her for nearly a year. There is a guideline about hospitals should be less than 2 hours travel away, but it's based on the assumption of car ownership and the circles drawn on the map are hugely inconvenient for many people.
🙏 For Cathcats and her giraffe
🙏 For all in need with prayers requested or unsaid
Crikey - problems that may seem small in the Grand Scheme of Things, but they aren't so small for the people affected.
I'm genuinely surprised that the Telemum's appointment hasn't been postponed - do they really wantba frail old lady coming into contact with all the wee bugs (and larger ones) that are bound to inhabit a hospital at the moment? I applaud their desire to Keep Calm and Carry On, but I wonder at their wisdom.
Prayers ascending for you, for Curiosity and the Kitten, and for Cathscats and the Giraffe.
Thanks everyone, I was quite wound up about that. Yes, she phoned to confirm and they really did want her to go in. She woke up around midnight and declared that she felt much better, and had no trouble walking or crossing the road (with her wheeler). That's probably thanks to your prayers. She has been better all day.
Anyway - they said they can probably get her most of her sight back. Aside from being a general source of misery and inability to read, the partial blindness makes her vertigo worse.
The flip side is that she has to go back in a week, and then once a month for three months after that [shudder] I was losing my mind over this visit, and it was a lot of work, but hopefully it was OK. I cleaned all the things, as best I could. (You have to pay for parking, and no it is not contactless and the pay point is across the road in front of the hospital so you can queue. My credit card is the cleanest it's ever been)
As long as I don't think too much about what UK hospitals will be like next week I can be OK with this. Would be nice if I could get some writing done too...
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Thankful for the Beakys good friend finding provisions. Prayers ascending for all in need.
<votive> For all in need.
I’m still not home as I had a high temperature and a bit of a cough, so I’m being barrier nursed until my test results come back. My suspicion is that it’s a sinus infection.
For TreeBee's star-crossed lovers H and M (and a wedding to come after this is over)
For Priscilla
For South Africa as we go into a severely restricted lockdown for 21 days to save lives
For all ill with coronavirus
For all families kept apart by the threat of coronavirus
For all in need of prayer
She has gone to be with the Lord she loved.
Thanks
<votive> For @Cathscats and her Giraffe
<votive> For JJ's H
<votive> For all dealing with the novel coronavirus
<votive> For all in need
tl;dr I have to take my mother for a hospital appointment tomorrow, so if she shouldn't go, I need something (benign) to happen that will stop us.
Long version: the Telemum has a hospital appointment for her blind eye tomorrow at 9am. I will put on her a mask, a disposable rain poncho, and nitrile gloves and will wipe down her shoes and get her to dispose of the gloves and poncho before she gets back into the car. She will need to go to the bathroom at least three times while she is in the hospital.
As you may or may not know, the pandemic has been managed in a very unserious manner in the UK, and hospital staff do not have protective equipment. I am very very scared about taking her into that environment.
Added to that she is weakened by four days of diarrhea and is dizzier than ever and nearly fell several times today, and I will have to hope she can cross a road and get to the right ward without my help. If we both get sick I may not be able to care for us. If I go in with her then at least one of us will get sick. Even if it's not that bad the in-house isolation will be unmanageable.
She cancelled an appointment for an ambulatory ECG, and it turns out tonight that she didn't understand it was a diagnostic for her dizziness, so she has most likely thrown away her chance of ever getting that properly treated. She cried. Not that it would have been safe to go to the hospital appointment for that, but so it goes.
I am trying to write my thesis within the next 5 days. I can only get a small amount of writing done every day because of the extra domestic workload the virus has imposed. I know I am far luckier than most.
I really need my project to be funded. If it is funded I can reasonably expect to be OK. If it is not, I'll be repeating the Great Unemployment of 2007 and 2008, but on a bigger scale.
🙏 For all dealing with the corona virus;
Hospitals are trying to treat people normally and not ignore all conditions that otherwise need treating. My daughter should have had two appointments this month. The rheumatology one due on 18 March was efficiently postponed, a few weeks in advance of the appointment, until July. The second, the immunology appointment, happening next week, is now a phone consultation and that's because it would otherwise take 3 hours on public transport to get there, tube, train and bus, and the same back. The Government is requiring us not to travel unnecessarily, but we can attend medical appointments. The hospital wanted her in, possibly because they cocked up and didn't give her the follow up appointment last August or any time in between, so they haven't seen her for nearly a year. There is a guideline about hospitals should be less than 2 hours travel away, but it's based on the assumption of car ownership and the circles drawn on the map are hugely inconvenient for many people.
🙏 For Cathcats and her giraffe
🙏 For all in need with prayers requested or unsaid
I'm genuinely surprised that the Telemum's appointment hasn't been postponed - do they really wantba frail old lady coming into contact with all the wee bugs (and larger ones) that are bound to inhabit a hospital at the moment? I applaud their desire to Keep Calm and Carry On, but I wonder at their wisdom.
Prayers ascending for you, for Curiosity and the Kitten, and for Cathscats and the Giraffe.
Anyway - they said they can probably get her most of her sight back. Aside from being a general source of misery and inability to read, the partial blindness makes her vertigo worse.
The flip side is that she has to go back in a week, and then once a month for three months after that [shudder] I was losing my mind over this visit, and it was a lot of work, but hopefully it was OK. I cleaned all the things, as best I could. (You have to pay for parking, and no it is not contactless and the pay point is across the road in front of the hospital so you can queue. My credit card is the cleanest it's ever been)
As long as I don't think too much about what UK hospitals will be like next week I can be OK with this. Would be nice if I could get some writing done too...
For this benighted nation to repent.
<votive> For Telepath and the Telemum.
<votive> For all in need.
R & R are both doing well
I feel so helpless, I can't even deliver some chocolates to her door as I am in isolation too.
Please pray.
🕯Prayers for all above
🕯Prayers for S, may she rest in peace, and for her family and friends
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers.
<votive> Prayers ascending for all in need
Prayers for M, gone unto the Lord, and those who love her.