Preparing for Winter V

Si_Clist

Wednesday2000 said:

... trench coat ...

Now there's a thing.  I can't remember when I last saw one, or even heard the term used. 

Hmmmm. 

Duffel coats. 

Donkey jackets ...

MrsCD

I've got a lovely warm, red duffel coat! One of the things to look forward to in winter.

PipneyJane

Si_Clist said:

-taff said:

... wool stretches quite a bit when wet....

Oh gawd I wish you hadn't said that.  I'd long ago managed to banish from my brain the memory of six year old me standing in the sea at Cleethorpes in the grey woollen bathing trunks my grandmother had knitted.  They were held up (after a fashion) by a snake belt and they were truly horrible.  I even remember going to bed that night plotting how to poison her for making me wear them ...

My sympathies, Si.  While I have never experienced knitted swimwear, I’ve been to Cleethorpes a few times when staying in the area for work, and all I can remember of the seafront is miles of mud flats stretching out into the estuary.  It must have been hell as a 6 year old in terrible bathing trunks.

- Pip (It’s possible my memory is distorted.  I don’t think I’ve ever been there in daylight.)

PipneyJane

wondercollie said:

-taff said:

@wondercollie why are you working with this injury?

It’s not life threatening, occupational health said I’m fit to work with restrictions, no lifting over ten kilo, no pushing or pulling.  It’s couldn’t drive for six weeks, it hurt to hold the steering wheel, husband had drive me.  Injured nurses work, we get moved into office or clinic jobs.

A coworker jokes that we need to find new doctors, because we never get signed off work the way some patients do.   I have coworker who is diabetic and has a pacemaker.  We are both over 60 and at work during the pandemic.  No stay at home order for us.  We were told if we stayed home, it would come out of sick leave and vacation banks

That just stinks, @wondercollie.  I know you’re working in a different system to the UK and the expectations are different, but it still stinks.  (FWIW, I was a registered nurse, trained in Australia and staffed in the NHS in the UK.)

- Pip

Si_Clist

Just got our stock of Tesco's own-label £2 Christmas puds and I note that the BBE on them is exactly the same as on the same Christmas puds they sold last year, so they should certainly be matured. The only visible difference is the cost-saving doing-away with the red Cellophane for this year's lot.

Wednesday2000

Si_Clist said:

Wednesday2000 said:

... trench coat ...

Now there's a thing.  I can't remember when I last saw one, or even heard the term used. 

Hmmmm. 

Duffel coats. 

Donkey jackets ...

I've been looking for a decent trench coat for years. I did wear it for the first time yesterday and I do like it.

I did see an olive green trench in a charity shop yesterday but it was a size 10 so it wouldn't have fit me.

I would like a red trench coat too.

Wednesday2000

It's annoying as since I've put the heating on the weather has warmed up a bit! It's a lovely sunny day here today.

I have just reorganised my kitchen cupboards and put all the tinned and dry food in a different place. I'm quite well stocked up at the moment. I have tons of herbal tea too as I just placed an order from Amazon.

PipneyJane

Wednesday2000 said:

Si_Clist said:

Wednesday2000 said:

... trench coat ...

Now there's a thing.  I can't remember when I last saw one, or even heard the term used. 

Hmmmm. 

Duffel coats. 

Donkey jackets ...

I've been looking for a decent trench coat for years. I did wear it for the first time yesterday and I do like it.

I did see an olive green trench in a charity shop yesterday but it was a size 10 so it wouldn't have fit me.

I would like a red trench coat too.

I've also been looking for a decent trench coat for years.  I want one with a detachable lining.  Basically, I need to replace my current "summer" coat which is 20 years old and looking very shabby.  It has a detachable lining complete with sleeves and came from C&A.  Nowhere can I find a decent trench coat, complete with a warm detachable lining that has sleeves.  

Even without sleeves, the only ones I can find are in the menswear departments.

- Pip

Primrose

I think the only winter cover ups I,ve seen with a detachable lining these days are zip up Anoraks, some of which I,ve seen sold in Mountain  Warehouse.  

3secondmemory

wondercollie said:

3secondmemory said:

wondercollie said:

3secondmemory said:

Failure to thrive – lovely new  phrase in the Media! The lonely the old and the sick are being labelled in this way as if it’s our fault we can’t get our regular tests and treatment.

On a more positive note, my cheerful overweight clinical nurse – the one who told me to drink more water when I actually had a urine infection - noted that my weight remains ‘stable’ at 46 kg. From my point of view, my weight remains dangerously low and I don’t have any more to lose. 

Whilst I understand how much pressure the hospitals are going to be under over the winter just with normal coughs and flu, Those of us with ongoing conditions can’t get hold of the doctor for love nor money. Not all of us can access the econsults. 

 It’s taken all day to get through to any of the phlebotomy numbers so I can have a blood test prior to my appointment next week. 

Moan over


I can thoroughly recommend the small dreamland intelliheat  pad - you can unplug it and shove it inside your coat if you’re really cold. Not quite a heated gilet but it works for me 😃

Let's not weight shame nurses.  I gained 60lbs working night shifts.  It's hard to shift as we get older.  I've managed 15lbs in the last year but still have a ways to go.  I know the drill, eat less, move more, but I'm still an overweight nurse.

I think this is more and more of a problem though. They are so focused on advising patients to keep their weight down, exercise  more and avoid refined foods,  they don’t understand the issues at hand. Maybe she’s not connecting me with the times that she seen me in person because she congratulated me on losing 10 kg.  That’s not very effective nursing for me, but she is able to tick her boxes  that she’s talked to me about my diet, despite it not being applicable to me and of no use to me whatsoever. 

 

Going to have to agree to disagree on this.   You have no idea of the pressure nurses are under.  Our workloads are horrific, many of us are working injured, patients present with more acute problems than they did ten years ago, and their senses of entitlement is huge.

I've been working for the last six months with an injury that is not visible ( a patient caused injury) but has affected my entire life but I go to work every shift only to be told by patients I should smile more, answer their bell faster, etc.  It’s all about them.  I’ve looked after patients with the same injury that I have and they’ve been off work since it happened, I’ve had a total of ten days off in six months.

And that is your choice – many of us don’t have a choice at the moment. If your needs are met by the NHS,  I’m sure you think they’re doing a wonderful job but seriously, it’s going to get worse. I wasn’t due to have a camera stuck up my bum in January because the Gastro team like the look of it! 

We lost a life long friend in July the exact words when his bowel cancer was diagnosed, were “if only you’d come six months earlier”

 1 million women have not been breast screened for six months – possibly 8500walking around with early and mid stage breast cancer. In order to catch up with the million breast scans, either we need extra funding, extra testing an extra equipment otherwise another million women will have their mammograms delayed.  

You might put it down to a huge sense of entitlement but at the end of the day the majority of us don’t want to die of Covid or Cancer. Or are you suggesting, like Boris earlier in the year, that certain people are more expendable than others and we should take one for the team?