1) How mad is this? my husband is highly vulnerable and been shielding since March. Other than moving house from Monmouth to Ceredigion hardly been out. Not been in any building not our home. He takes anti rejection medicine following a kidney transplant in 2012.
2) Because we have moved we have changed health authority. First thing we did on arrival was register remotely for new GP and start request for repeat prescription of his medication. His old specialist wrote to GP. GP referred him to new specialist in Swansea.
3) Historically he has blood test and blood pressure by District Nurse and during lockdown a telephone consultation with Specialists or a repeat prescription issued. New specialist wants him to go into the hospital before he will prescribe the anti-rejection medicine.
4) He wants him to travel from one of lowest case areas to one where cases are exploding. The travel time is 90 mins. They want me as the donor to go to. His old specialist has written to new specialist but Morristown Hospital are insistent he comes in. He’s really frightened.
They have said they will organise hospital transport but we both feel this is all unnecessary. If they’d wait 3 months for a face to face appointment the world would be a much safer place. But he’s down to 10 days supply at the moment and the pressure is on #COVID19
Compare and contrast Ceredigion and Swansea.
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1)My nephew was sent home from school and told to isolate. My sister and brother in law been trying to get home a test. They live in Portland, nearest test site identified on website was Southampton but no tests available. #TestingShambles
2) They kept trying for 4 days but could not book a test. Sometimes online for 4 hours at a time. Putting in all the details only to get a website error message #TestingShambles
3) On Monday my brother in law noticed a testing site in Weymouth, so drove in. 3 fully masked up staff in an empty site. He asked them why? They said no one had booked tests. He asked how long they had been there and they said two months. He said they didn’t appear on website
There’s something really odd going on with testing and I wish a journalist would look into it @guardian. Why are there no tests available? Why are people being sent 100’s of miles. Why are there test centres not showing on the website?
I just keep hearing odd things. Three walk in test centres in Bristol not showing up on the website. The website showing no home tests available and not possible to book a test. But walk to the test site and you get a test
Someone else mentioned the large facility by Chessington being underused but website saying no tests available
1)A thread on Ancestral Responsibility in light of the BLM Movement. I would like to say that I believe that the roots of good and evil are the same. We cannot change the past but we can change the future. How? By speaking out and sharing the truth.
2) These are my Great Grandfather’s photos of building a railway in Africa. So what? What’s that to do with me or you? This thread isn’t meant to be a perfectly referenced historical talk, it is simply my emotional response to part of my family history.
3) Ancestral responsibility,What does that mean?. How can we possibly be responsible for what our forefathers did. It was a different time, after all and the morals and norms weren’t that he same as now. We can’t judge our ancestors through the optics of our own society.
I’ve realised that there is this awful bit of family history lurking in my past that I have always just accepted and never really questioned.
My Great Grandfather was very good friends with Cecil Rhodes and one of the first white men in Southern and Western Africa with him.
I’ve always just accepted this as a fact and never really questioned it. Felt uncomfortable but shrugged it off.
Upstairs are his photograph albums from late 19th century until 1913. He was responsible for provisioning the building of the railways. That included bringing indentured labour from India.
After falling, she kept falling; never got up again. Like Alice tumbling into another world, headfirst not knowing where the bottom would be or what we’d find when she got there.
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You sort of assume that once a person dies that’s it. That a system, a process will appear and support you. After all you’ve never done this before.
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Your mother hadn’t died previously, she’d just fallen, lost her way, forgotten the things she had always known but she hadn’t died.
At the hospital, when you arrive half an hour after the phone call, you know you’ll not see her again.