In these dark times I feel we need a laugh, and please have one at my misery of being ill over the festive period, and at 12/01, I am still not 100% sorted.
I have been reluctant to cross the threshold of my doctor’s surgery, since they suggested I went on statins over two years ago, which I declined and from what I have read since, that was one of my better decisions. After concluding I needed statins, I took the option of ‘changing my lifestyle’ and going back after six months for more checks. I think on the second visit, my cholesterol had reduced by 0.1. So, they again suggested statins. With regards to answering the relevant lifestyle questions: halve your alcohol intake, double your exercise routine time.
Here is an FSB article about cholesterol, written by John Hamer, which you might find helpful.
The two nurses who took the blood and completed the questionnaires were capable, the first, older one, better than the young number two. Their faces were covered by face nappies, and this was well after ‘requirements’ to wear face masks were dropped. Having said that, I was the only one in the waiting room not wearing one. The first nurse said that wearing them was insisted upon by the practise manager, and that sometimes that doctor demands N95 masks. She admitted to cutting the internals out of those, as she recognised they were all total waste of time. She was very much in agreement that we are witnessing a depopulation agenda!
As some may know, I glean a great deal of information from Telegram. One of my must reads is Dr Mike Yeadon. Interestingly he says that Covid did not exist and what was experienced was a pandemic of positive test results. This is his latest message on the wearing of face masks. Copied in full:
Public service announcement 😊
My replies were to a person who explained the changing guidance on masks by saying there weren’t enough masks at first, so they had to lie about not being necessary. My word. You’ve got to hand it to people to rationalise things.
I admit, it sort of fits.
If you cannot conceive of being lied to, it’s not a bad try.
As soon as you realise they lie all the time, you bring forward alternative explanations, like ritual humiliation. “How can we make them flip their opinion without even realising they’re totally enslaved?”
You don’t need them because there’s nothing to protect you from (unless you’re planning on sandpapering a person to death) and in any case, they don’t filter the tiniest particles even if you wanted them to.
By the way, those who enjoy vehicle restoration know that if you’re spray painting using what’s called “2 pack paint” - related to liquid araldite - even an N95 mask is NOWHERE NEAR good enough PPE. You MUST wear a full respirator which supplies clean air to inhale & only exhaled air vents to the room. If you don’t do this, you will shorten your life very considerably. Imagine the size of those droplets. Large enough that, as a cloud of pigmented droplets, you can see them. These aren’t filtered by regular masks (those suitable for modest levels of protection from sanding wood or flatting rough plaster).
Masks in a medical context serve ONLY two purposes.
1. A splash guard.
2. A PsyOp. Don’t fall for it.
Best wishes
Mike
More about masks can be found here.
Number two nurse was a bit dim but pretty (from the nose up), and she had to call me the next day at home to discuss their recommendation of statins, based on the final score on the paperwork she had handed me. She should had had that conversation at the time of handing me the paperwork. However, I had to write that score in, as it was not recorded as she insisted it was. I politely said I will not be taking statins, but that she had lovely eyes.
I ignore all their prompts to book myself in for Covid/flu vaccinations, yet when I asked to be removed off the list for reminders, I was told the system will automatically renew them.
My pile of poo sample boxes, received to test for bowel cancer, is piling up. And possibly it is not wise to not follow through with that, but I am now so anti-medical profession that I feel they can stick that up their arse. I will take my chances with natural remedies, if the shit hits the fan!
Having the lurgy over Christmas and New Year and utilising the services of the NHS on a couple of occasions since. I have deduced that our health system is screwed.
The catching of this bug was no doubt self-inflicted in that I was working inside renovating a bathroom and cutting MDF sheets outside. Getting too hot in the bathroom, then going outside under dressed for the ambient temps. Learn from my mistakes. However, my wife now has the same symptoms, and she is not as stupid as I, so we can only conclude I have passed that bug on to her.
After that festive period, I felt I was improving, then the very next day was feeling far worse. However, I was content just to let it run its course. But my wife wasn’t (she did not have it at that point) but said she would leave me, if I did not make an appointment at our GPs! She meant it!
So, I called our Medical Practise (on a Friday) to make an appointment but was told they were taking emergency appointments only. As that suited me, I never asked why, and the receptionist was only too keen to put the phone down. Perhaps their staff were off sick? At this point a local friend who no longer uses our Medical Practise as she does not rate them, suggested I use the Norwich NHS Walk in centre. So, reluctantly off I went. The wait was two hours to see a practitioner (I do not believe they are doctors) but my treatment was most impressive. A stethoscope revealed a chest infection, and I was prescribed a 7-day course of anti-biotics.
Seven days later and I had improved, but I was still far from cured. I went back, as the original practioner suggested I do, if it had not cleared up. As it was early morning, the queue was a lot shorter at 30 mins, I found it funny as the practitioners met the patients in the waiting room with the cheery greeting: “how are you” The response always being “fine thanks” Just like what my chippy owner and I said to each other on meeting in our Medical Centre pre–Pandemic Scamdemic! So why were we there then?
Now this practioner, from Malaysia/Indonesia at a guess, having studied the notes, stated that I should not have been on anti-biotics for a viral infection (!) and that seven day is the maximum course for them anyway. That time limit was news to me, and I was gutted that my run of free prescriptions had ended. He suggested that I should use over the counter medications instead. I came away believing I had wasted this guy’s and the NHS’s time and should just man up.
He did soften his view when I said I had woken for the last three days (now seven days) lathered in sweat with a headache. He then seemingly as an afterthought checked my chest with the stethoscope, and said it was now clear. Ah, perhaps that was because of the anti-biotics?
This inconsistency in responses by two different practitioners is not at all confidence inspiring.
My greatest concern about the NHS was what the first practitioner said. Firstly, she apologised for the two hours wait, but confirmed it is usually four hours over the weekend. This lady was South Korean and said she has worked in the NHS since 2010 and has never known it so bad. Norwich is a city of a similar size population to her home city, and in South Korea that city has thirteen hospitals, Norwich has one.
She said that back in South Korea, if you are diagnosed with cancer, you are guaranteed surgery or treatment the very next day. Here it is six months. She confirmed she would travel back home for treatment, if she was ever diagnosed with cancer.
Emigration is becoming so much more appealing
Back in 2022, we had to call an ambulance as my mother-in-law had fallen at our home, whilst she was here on holiday: twenty-seven (yes: 27) hrs later that ambulance turned up. That beats all the times I hear quoted on Talk. But at least she did not have to wait in a corridor
I have to say the two medics were great. I had heard on the radio a few days earlier that there was a lot of absenteeism amongst ambulance staff, “due to Covid”. When I asked them as to whether that was the cause of our delay, I was told that the service was simply overwhelmed by people calling ambulances as they believed that got them priority responses over and above taking themselves into A&E. It makes no difference, but clearly it ties up ambulances and staff.
It must be said my MIL received first class treatment in hospital for her broken hip. But as she spoke no English, the doctors on the ward were having to talk to her daughter (my wife) at home via her mobile phone for translations to ask questions. It became apparent that these doctors do not make records, or if they do, they are not read, as those questions were often repeated by different doctors. The treatment was an operation to pin her broken hip.
Before anyone mentions it’s National Health Service and not International Health Service, my MIL had travel insurance to cover medical emergencies.
Is Covid the new man flu, or just a cold? I don’t know the answer.
My neighbours experienced similar symptoms to ours after getting back from holiday in November. They both claim to have had Covid. Strange that, as they both have combined boosters every year! I am certain they will be of the opinion: it would have been far worse if we had not had the vaccinations.
My take on real flu is that you are bedridden for weeks, it was not that bad. As lots more in the walk in centre were exhibiting the same annoying cough, I did ask the second practitioner if he had a name for this ailment, he shook his head and said ‘they’ had not identified it. SAGE are probably meeting as I type to create a name that will frighten the Bejesus out of the population.
In 2022, when MIL was here, but before she had her fall, I was roped in to help a mate paint his bedroom, before the carpet fitter arrived. Good fun it was too, singing and dancing to the radio with paint brushes in our hands. Lots of beer and unhealthy food.
I stayed one night at his and rang my wife to be told that she and our two friends who we watched the rugby with at the pub at the weekend had gone down with something. Obviously Covid was suspected back then. My mate handed me a long Q tip to test for it (my one and only test) which came up negative, which I suspect was due to me not shoving it up my nose far enough. He also tested his mum, who lived with him. She came up positive.
His mum was fine, I went home, felt totally energy less and spent the next two days in bed. But it could had been depression, after forgetting my MIL was still at home!
Upsides from the lurgy: Zero appetite, but you can eat anything put in front of you. I have lost weight and reckon I can now get in to my ‘Saturday Night Fever’ trousers, which is something that John Travolta cannot claim.
I have zero interest in drinking alcohol, I am certain this will go when I get invited to paint another bedroom.
Suffering an ailment (albeit minor) does make one appreciate good health. As the saying goes “you cannot buy it” But what you can buy is prescription medication online, that would normally require you to get a prescription in the UK, strangely enough I discovered this site (from fellow users on Telegram) Just as I picked up my first free prescription.
The John O’Looney Telegram channel also revealed plenty of individuals suggesting various remedies. On there, but also suggested by my wife, was attaching bags of onions to my feet overnight. Which other than making me feel slightly taller on going to the loo, made no noticeable difference to my health. My wife asked me if I could taste the onions? No, but I could certainly smell them! So, not Covid then!
One of Barbara O’Neill’s concoctions was cough medicine made from onions and honey. Now that was foul to taste, so was soon replaced by traditional cough syrups. Do any of the readers find that this stuff does exactly what it says on the tin: it makes you cough?
In this clip, Dr John Campbell describes his recent symptoms and treatment. He believes he had Human Metapneumovirus (hPBV) I am relieved not to have had that, mainly as I cannot pronounce it.
On a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being fully fit and 10 being dead, I would say I was 1.5, possibly 2, when going to bed and experiencing a hybrid cough, whereby you are almost reaching: what a bizarre experience! Having said that, I would not wish this on anyone except perhaps the entire Cabinet plus Trudeau, Hancock, Ardern, Daniel Andrews …….
Below is a sobering message that I saw on the John O’Looney Telegram channel:
Posted anonymously by an A&E doctor:
“I’m writing this because I’m angry. More than that, I’m 🤬 livid.
I’m an A&E reg with 9+ years’ experience in A&E both here and overseas. This morning was the first time EVER that I cried 😢 in my car after a shift.
I was on nights over this New Years period, but New Year was not the issue, every shift is like this now.
Where 5 years ago we had 50 patients in the department on handover at night, we now have 180. It used to be around 20 patients to see with a 1-2 hour wait for clinician, it’s now 60-70 with a 10 hour wait.
People used to lose their minds if patients were coming up to 4-hour breaches. Last night 60% of the patients in A&E had been there for more than 12 hours, some for more than 40. Many I saw the night before, still in the same place when I came on.
No triage or obs after 2 hours of arrival, no 🩸 or ECGs or gas for 4 hours. Regularly finding people in the waiting room after 4 hours with initial gases showing hyperkalamia or severe acidosis or hypoglycaemia.
87-year-olds coming in after falls sitting on chairs for 18 hours. Other elderly patients lying in their own 💦 for hours because there’s no staff, or even room to change them into something dry. As the reg in charge of the shift, I’ve had (on multiple occasions) to help the sole nurse in the area change patients by holding a sheet around the bed because we have to do it in the middle of a corridor. People lying on the floor because there’s no chairs left, trolleys parked literally wherever we can put them.
Things have been getting even worse for the last 3 months. 5 weeks I came home raging to my wife that people are sitting in their own 💦 for hours and it’s so inhumane. Now we’ve got to the point where people are actually 💀. People who’ve been in A&E for 2-3 days,
The media and public might blame the A&E nurses and doctors for this, but honestly what the 🤬 are we meant to do with 180 people in a department built for 50. With 8 nurses rather than the MINIMUM staffing of 12. 1 or 2 nurses per area, giving meds, doing obs, trying to provide basic cares to 25-30 people, an absolute impossibility. And there’s less nurses every week, because honestly why would you put yourself through this day after day?
Resus patients are quickly assessed and stepped down to make room for the next pre-alert, going to the area with those same poor nurses, already overstretched, now inheriting a severely unwell patient.
We need to accept the truth, the NHS isn’t breaking, it’s broken. And the same 🤬 who broke it are doing reality TV shows and writing books about how they saved the NHS whilst refusing to increase nursing pay. We try and shovel 💩 with spoons whilst they pour it in with dump trucks
The NHS as we knew it is 💀, and it breaks my ❤️, because it’s a beautiful system. It shouldn’t be like this, and those of us who have been around for longer than 5 years know it wasn’t always like this.
The public have no idea, they don’t really know how dangerous this all is. When they come in, they’re horrified, but most of the population don’t know how bad it is. This could be their mum on a trolley for 17 hours, or their wife or son or daughter.
I genuinely feel it’s now our responsibility to speak out. We don’t for fear that it will make our hospital look bad or harm our careers. But it’s not a hospital problem, it’s a national problem, and it’s a problem brought about by the politics of the people in power.
We need to shine a light on what they’ve done, make the public so angry that they demand a change. Massive recruitment of nurses through a proper wage/paid uni/free parking/free Nando’s if that’s what it takes would be a start.
If anyone has any idea how we could coordinate some kind of campaign to show the state of emergency departments in the UK right now please write a response, because I can’t work in this much longer, and more importantly I’m not sure the patients can survive it.
This is happening everywhere up and down the country 😞”