TICTH, and I suspect for once I really want to, those who do the devils work under the name of Christ It is not something happening to me but I am aware of the damage to individuals and to Christian witness in an institution by a one group who are using illegal methods to evangelise vulnerable people.
Whatever it is that causes the loss of prescriptions between the district nurses and the chemists. The nurses (wonderful) notice that dressings are running out and put in an order. This is passed to the surgery, where a prescription is made out. This is passed to the chemist (either electronically or in a bunch of paper scripts) who then order the needed items (which take up a lot of space so they don't keep them in stock). Only this doesn't happen.
Sometimes the surgery alter the order, so that what is meant to be a full box of items turns into one of it. Not a lot of use.
This week, they have totally lost it. Went to the chemist yesterday as the dressings had all been used. Nothing in. Went to the surgery and asked for a new prescription. Was promised it would be available after 4. When we turned up towards the end of the afternoon (not calling SE London traffic to hell, someone had a very bad day at the front of the chaos, have prayed for them), D's son was told they have to have 48 hours notice of prescriptions - which means no dressings till Tuesday, while the nurses are coming daily. When I have found out the date of the nurse's order, I shall be composing a letter, of the passive aggressive sort, pointing out that they had the 48 hours, and ignored it.
The chemists said we weren't the only ones this week, and I recall that the nurses have complained about this sort of thing before. I don't know how old housebound people are expected to cope without active people to stomp around grumbling for them.
No alternative GP practice, and very frequent turnover of doctors.
Penny, this sounds like you need to call Jeremy Hunt to Hell. He, with his nutjob political advisors, is the root cause of the problems in our health service.
I shall wait to see how the practice manager responds to my letter, approved by the nurse and D's son (used his title Dr - they aren't to know it's in earth sciences), before escalating things.
What I've noticed in dealing with agencies is that the people one deals with face to face are generous, helpful, and thoughtful, and make promises which are then vetoed by higher up people who don't get to know the patients. Long before reaching the level of Mr Hunt.
Thanks Golden Key, Indeed when I called today, they said that there is limited parking higher on the hill at emergency room entrance which leads to elevator and no stairs or hill. They do not like to have patients use it because it is for emergency patients and parking is limited. I agree it should be kept for emergency patients, but again poor planning.
GP who cannot understand to prescribe a medication in 1mg tablets as well as 5mg. Third consultant has now said this medication needs to be reduced in 1mg steps, and that ain't possible if the GP won't actually listen or read the requests, comments or any other ways of communication that has been attempted and continues to prescribe in 5mg tablets only.
Not good this new GP in the practice. Long standing GP is lovely, but now on his own after his partner retired. The new GPs are crap, and there's a rapid turnover.
Best of all, the email to say you were out* when they have not even been in the street (which you know, having been watching out the window all morning).
*ie I don’t have time/the satnav’s on the blink/sod this.
Not good this new GP in the practice. Long standing GP is lovely, but now on his own after his partner retired. The new GPs are crap, and there's a rapid turnover.
I think we can call J Hunt Esq to hell for that too. GP land is having a very hard time at present (from what I can work out as a non medical NHS employee). Hospital is worse.
Having all sorts of fun* trying to get an appt with the GP who specialises in dermatology for Child A at the moment. We need an appt in 4 weeks time. It can only be booked at 8am on one particular day. *For a given value of fun.
I accidentally overcaffeinated myself today. The experience has been rather TICTH worthy.
Stupid people and their stupid idea of what constitutes a fair way of allocating scarce places.
Many parents will be familiar with this - your kids want to do some popular activity or other, which is expected to be significantly oversubscribed. So it goes, and those organizing the activity require some kind of equitable scheme for allocating spaces to children. So far, so good.
But what the idiots do is to declare that the sign-up website opens at midnight on Thursday morning (for example) and that it will be first come, first served. Which completely screws over parents whose schedules aren't conducive to being awake at midnight pounding on the website, and is needlessly stressful for those who can manage it.
Just take all applications up to a deadline, and draw lots. It's fair to everyone, and doesn't cause the stupidity.
Yes, this is a small whinge in the scheme of things, but I find that it's the small things that irritate me most, because they could so easily be fixed.
Though it would be sensible to have a random selection this too can have unfortunate consequences by randomly throwing up a bad scenario. You need a controlled random situation.
One I have been in when it was used. I was the only girl on an all boys table. There were a limited number of new rulers so the teacher allocated them by random. Thing was that on my table all the boys got one but not me. I knew it was random but it still emphasized my difference.
Totally random can turn out non-desirable patterns such as all the boys going and no girls.
As I've said elsewhere, the New Vicar at The Nearest Place To Us Up The Candle (i.e. next parish-but-one) has re-introduced incense on High Days and Holydays, and I suspect he intends eventually to use it at each Sunday's Parish Eucharist. Mwahahahaha.......
Fortunately, he has a loyal and supportive team of servers, including at least two very enthusiastic thurifers.
Meanwhile, TICTH my bl**dy BT Yahoo e-mail wossname, which has suddenly decided not to allow me to reply to, or forward, new messages....
I don't know if it's Stockholm Syndrome but I'm starting to like it.
TICTH my dastardly washing machine. It has shown 8 minutes left for the last 10 and shows no sign of progression. I pop outside to check on it. Still 8. The robots are playing with our minds.
Impatience.
Impatient cashiers and impatient people in grocery store lines and the little terminals they hand my almost blind father which time out so fast that it takes 4 tries to get through, and everyone who is impatient ever with Old People about anything at all.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm certainly not a fan. (Can I please get rid of the damned stock photos on the opening screen?)
TICTH the difficulty of getting my Ritalin prescription in a timely fashion. Because it's a controlled substance, there are many, many checks and balances; because my last prescription (put in by a substitute oncology nurse) was only for a month's pills instead of 90 days, I ran out too soon. My other meds make it hard to focus on my work without this one.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm certainly not a fan. (Can I please get rid of the damned stock photos on the opening screen?)
Yes - double click on a photo you do like and have saved to your computer. When it opens, left-click on it then click on "set as background" or "Set as lock screen" as you choose.
I quite like W10, btw - but I do wish they'd add resizing as an option in the Photos app.
TICTH the latest round of r**dw*rks in Oxford. My 1 hour journey home is now 1.5. And, just to add to the joie de vivre of us all (trans: the joy of life) there are r**dw*rks at several points in the city simultaneously, so EVERYWHERE is gridlocked in the rush hour.
Yes - double click on a photo you do like and have saved to your computer. When it opens, left-click on it then click on "set as background" or "Set as lock screen" as you choose. ...
Thanks, BG!
Is there any way to choose a plain blue screen over any photo? They seem to have made it mandatory to have an image, and I'd rather not.
Here we've just had the madness of a council planning meeting giving permission for a development of 25 "homes" partly because of the existence of a bus service and stipulating that because of said bus service the parking facilities for the development were to be restricted (all visitors to use the bus, in effect). Next day the same council voted to discontinue the subsidy given to the bus route serving the development so the buses will stop running even before the houses are built.
Big van - having turned corner started rapidly backing down the hill at approx. 20 mph - I could see no hazard light nor hear any beeps.
There is no pavement there and I am disabled - could easily have been mown down and ended up under the lorry - it was terrifying. Only narrowly escaped.
Our planners have spent £15 million on a large car park for a park and ride into Aberdeen. Since then my bus service into Aberdeen has been cut from once every 20 minutes to once an hour. And the once-an-hour bus takes ten minutes longer as it detours through the park and ride. The idea seems to be that, instead of using the bus for the whole journey, people should drive to the park and ride and just take the bus from there. We have managed fine as a one-car family since moving here fifteen years ago, but are now looking to buy a second car. And when we buy it, I won't be faffing around with the park and ride, I'll be one extra car driving into the city.
Yes - double click on a photo you do like and have saved to your computer. When it opens, left-click on it then click on "set as background" or "Set as lock screen" as you choose. ...
Thanks, BG!
Is there any way to choose a plain blue screen over any photo? They seem to have made it mandatory to have an image, and I'd rather not.
Yes, that's doable: Left-click on your desktop, click on 'personalise', click on the drop-down menu underneath the word 'background' and set it to 'solid colour.' That'll bring up a palette to chose from.
Big van - having turned corner started rapidly backing down the hill at approx. 20 mph - I could see no hazard light nor hear any beeps.
There is no pavement there and I am disabled - could easily have been mown down and ended up under the lorry - it was terrifying. Only narrowly escaped.
Nasty. I can understand how you felt. I overlook large carpark for McDs and big service station with Nandos inside and other fast food. Always busy with large trucks being parked whiledrivers get food. Then they climb back in and back out, often without a glance behind them or so it seems. The reversing alarm as the truck moves, does not seem to warn drivers that they need to look.
Miss S, in a Lotus Elise (so very near to the ground) was almost flattened by a big truck at a petrol station. He looked clear over her head and set off :shudder: She was saved by an onlooker who started leaping around and screaming. I still turn cold every time I think about that incident
I'm not quite sure what your link was supposed to bring up, Firenze - when I click on it I just get a blank Google page with the word "blue" in the title tab.
I checked the link before posting and for me it brings up a panoply of images of plain blue backgrounds. Sorry if this doesn’t work outside the iPadverse.
Coriander / Cilantro (same sh**, different name). It does not belong on pizza. It tastes like vomit mixed with soap and a piece of tinfoil touching a tooth filling. Ruins everything.
Coriander / Cilantro (same sh**, different name). It does not belong on pizza. It tastes like vomit mixed with soap and a piece of tinfoil touching a tooth filling. Ruins everything.
And OR6A2, the gene that makes it taste this way.
AFAICT this aversion appears more widespread in North America than in Europe. Alternatively, North Americans make more noise about it. I'm genuinely curious and I honestly do appreciate the problem (which I don't suffer from)..
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Jengie
Sometimes the surgery alter the order, so that what is meant to be a full box of items turns into one of it. Not a lot of use.
This week, they have totally lost it. Went to the chemist yesterday as the dressings had all been used. Nothing in. Went to the surgery and asked for a new prescription. Was promised it would be available after 4. When we turned up towards the end of the afternoon (not calling SE London traffic to hell, someone had a very bad day at the front of the chaos, have prayed for them), D's son was told they have to have 48 hours notice of prescriptions - which means no dressings till Tuesday, while the nurses are coming daily. When I have found out the date of the nurse's order, I shall be composing a letter, of the passive aggressive sort, pointing out that they had the 48 hours, and ignored it.
The chemists said we weren't the only ones this week, and I recall that the nurses have complained about this sort of thing before. I don't know how old housebound people are expected to cope without active people to stomp around grumbling for them.
No alternative GP practice, and very frequent turnover of doctors.
What I've noticed in dealing with agencies is that the people one deals with face to face are generous, helpful, and thoughtful, and make promises which are then vetoed by higher up people who don't get to know the patients. Long before reaching the level of Mr Hunt.
Not good this new GP in the practice. Long standing GP is lovely, but now on his own after his partner retired. The new GPs are crap, and there's a rapid turnover.
It's better than their other trick - sneaking very quietly up to your front door to leave an "I'm sorry you were out" sticker and running away.
*ie I don’t have time/the satnav’s on the blink/sod this.
I think we can call J Hunt Esq to hell for that too. GP land is having a very hard time at present (from what I can work out as a non medical NHS employee). Hospital is worse.
Having all sorts of fun* trying to get an appt with the GP who specialises in dermatology for Child A at the moment. We need an appt in 4 weeks time. It can only be booked at 8am on one particular day. *For a given value of fun.
I accidentally overcaffeinated myself today. The experience has been rather TICTH worthy.
Many parents will be familiar with this - your kids want to do some popular activity or other, which is expected to be significantly oversubscribed. So it goes, and those organizing the activity require some kind of equitable scheme for allocating spaces to children. So far, so good.
But what the idiots do is to declare that the sign-up website opens at midnight on Thursday morning (for example) and that it will be first come, first served. Which completely screws over parents whose schedules aren't conducive to being awake at midnight pounding on the website, and is needlessly stressful for those who can manage it.
Just take all applications up to a deadline, and draw lots. It's fair to everyone, and doesn't cause the stupidity.
Yes, this is a small whinge in the scheme of things, but I find that it's the small things that irritate me most, because they could so easily be fixed.
Jengie
What kind of "bad scenario" are you envisaging here?
Totally random can turn out non-desirable patterns such as all the boys going and no girls.
Jengie
Fortunately, he has a loyal and supportive team of servers, including at least two very enthusiastic thurifers.
Meanwhile, TICTH my bl**dy BT Yahoo e-mail wossname, which has suddenly decided not to allow me to reply to, or forward, new messages....
IJ
The e-mail wossname works fine on my Windows10 PC, but not on Windows8.1, so blow that for a game of soldiers...I don't like Windows10...
IJ
I don't know if it's Stockholm Syndrome but I'm starting to like it.
TICTH my dastardly washing machine. It has shown 8 minutes left for the last 10 and shows no sign of progression. I pop outside to check on it. Still 8. The robots are playing with our minds.
The latest version is always detested, but Windows Vista probably takes the prize.
Impatient cashiers and impatient people in grocery store lines and the little terminals they hand my almost blind father which time out so fast that it takes 4 tries to get through, and everyone who is impatient ever with Old People about anything at all.
I'm still using Vista. I haven't heard anything about the later versions that's worth changing for. OTOH, I still miss Windows 98.
(wink)
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm certainly not a fan. (Can I please get rid of the damned stock photos on the opening screen?)
TICTH the difficulty of getting my Ritalin prescription in a timely fashion. Because it's a controlled substance, there are many, many checks and balances; because my last prescription (put in by a substitute oncology nurse) was only for a month's pills instead of 90 days, I ran out too soon. My other meds make it hard to focus on my work without this one.
Yes - double click on a photo you do like and have saved to your computer. When it opens, left-click on it then click on "set as background" or "Set as lock screen" as you choose.
I quite like W10, btw - but I do wish they'd add resizing as an option in the Photos app.
Thanks, BG!
Is there any way to choose a plain blue screen over any photo? They seem to have made it mandatory to have an image, and I'd rather not.
Here we've just had the madness of a council planning meeting giving permission for a development of 25 "homes" partly because of the existence of a bus service and stipulating that because of said bus service the parking facilities for the development were to be restricted (all visitors to use the bus, in effect). Next day the same council voted to discontinue the subsidy given to the bus route serving the development so the buses will stop running even before the houses are built.
Joined-up government - wonderful
We have a whole bunch of similar wazzocks 'in charge' of our Fair City.
IJ
There is no pavement there and I am disabled - could easily have been mown down and ended up under the lorry - it was terrifying. Only narrowly escaped.
Our planners have spent £15 million on a large car park for a park and ride into Aberdeen. Since then my bus service into Aberdeen has been cut from once every 20 minutes to once an hour. And the once-an-hour bus takes ten minutes longer as it detours through the park and ride. The idea seems to be that, instead of using the bus for the whole journey, people should drive to the park and ride and just take the bus from there. We have managed fine as a one-car family since moving here fifteen years ago, but are now looking to buy a second car. And when we buy it, I won't be faffing around with the park and ride, I'll be one extra car driving into the city.
Apart from the fact that newer versions get patches whereas Vista is wide open for any new exploits?
Yes, that's doable: Left-click on your desktop, click on 'personalise', click on the drop-down menu underneath the word 'background' and set it to 'solid colour.' That'll bring up a palette to chose from.
No, but it's a satisfying image...
Like the foolish moron I am I do. 10 minutes and waiting while it shuts down. 17% currently. No 19%
I do have work to do. I will do it at home time next time.
22%.
Nasty. I can understand how you felt. I overlook large carpark for McDs and big service station with Nandos inside and other fast food. Always busy with large trucks being parked whiledrivers get food. Then they climb back in and back out, often without a glance behind them or so it seems. The reversing alarm as the truck moves, does not seem to warn drivers that they need to look.
Mrs. S, shivering
...if I could find an appropriate plain blue image! But I'll keep looking. Thanks, LC!
And OR6A2, the gene that makes it taste this way.
AFAICT this aversion appears more widespread in North America than in Europe. Alternatively, North Americans make more noise about it. I'm genuinely curious and I honestly do appreciate the problem (which I don't suffer from)..