Prepping for Brexit thread

Nargleblast

I agree, we should just get on with our lives and do what's best for us and our families and our own situation. There is no sense in going into panic mode just because of the election result. The new government knows it owes a lot to a lot of people, people who changed lifetime voting habits because there just wasn't, in their opinion, a credible alternative. The north of England in particular will be watching.

We are certainly in for changing and challenging times in the new decade, but we have to retain a sense of perspective. I looked up, out of curiosity, how much the NHS spent on issuing paracetamol on prescription. It seems, in 2016, the figure was over £70,000,000. Seventy million pounds. For a drug that costs less than 50 pence a pack in a supermarket. Why would anyone begrudge buying their own paracetamol for goodness sake!

In comparison, that £70,000,000 could have been spent on treating 964 people over a year with trastuzumab emtansine, a powerful targeted chemotherapy drug combined with an antibody drug. The drug my husband was scheduled to commence, but he died unexpectedly before he could commence treatment.

Cappella

I'm sorry too Mrslurcherwalker. I shouldn't have posted, I should have thought first and then stepped away. I'd been up with MrC most of the night and I'm so tired these days it's hard to think at all, never mind think straight.
In different ways everyone's right. We can only do the best that we can in whatever situation we find ourselves, and prep in the way that's most helpful to ourselves.
Sometimes we post first and think later. I meant to come back and delete it but life tripped me up. I do wish everyone here the best future possible for them.
Capella

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Bless you, life is difficult and we're all tired not just physically but jaded mentally too from the uncertainty and real apprehensions over what the future will bring. I know I'm horribly annoyingly positive and I appreciate that when you're rock bottom shattered and demoralised and scared the last thing anyone wants to read is 'Oh it will be alright and we can fix things that go wrong so don't be down'. I'm me, I can't change how or who I am and I've been on that rock bottom several times in my life so I know how starkly bleak it is and how hope has gone and all you can see is the rock face in front of you and the ice cold fear surrounding you and feel totally defeated. Humans though ARE resilient and I've climbed the rock face and melted the ice (so far) and defeated the fear and made life good again, albeit gradually and over time and that's why I say we CAN make good what we find because I've done it and I'm really sorry if being me and being positive IS offensive to some of you, my words are meant for encouragement in hard times and to try and give some hope not to be bumptiously bouncy and dismissive of those fears. Life isn't easy for any of us in these times but I do know that support and cohesion makes for better mental strength than fractiousness, blame and dissent.

Nargleblast

Don't delete anything, Capella, it's all a valid part of the discussion. I acknowledge we all have our burdens in life, our challenges and our worries, I just wish some people in the media (including social media) would stop going around like headless chickens screaming that half the population will die from food shortages and the other half through lack of meds. As I said, let's keep things in perspective and do what's right for our own circumstances.

Farway

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I know I'm horribly annoyingly positive and I appreciate that when you're rock bottom shattered and demoralised and scared the last thing anyone wants to read is 'Oh it will be alright and we can fix things that go wrong so don't be down'. .... .

Being positive is good, I'm another positive one, my DIL however thinks the world is about to end after the election result but to be fair to her she was has never known a non EU world and has nothing to compare against.

I am however a wartime baby and do have a world to compare with, I prefer this one even with all it's problems

unrecordings

Nargleblast wrote: »

For a drug that costs less than 50 pence a pack in a supermarket. Why would anyone begrudge buying their own paracetamol for goodness sake!

Once again, for the record I mentioned paracetamol on prescription out of concern for supply not to save money.

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Me too Farway and life in the late 1940s and 50s was still austere wasn't it? one room in the house with a fire in, no indoor loo and no hot water in our house and a tin bath that hung in the yard. I appreciate that if you haven't that as a basis for comparison it must be impossible to see why we are of a positive frame of mind when faced with the possibility of life changes that will be widespread and all encompassing.

ivyleaf

Nargle I'm certainly happy to buy most OTC meds. I was thinking more of things like, for example, a couple of antispasmodics (which I need quite often) which don't have a generic version available OTC, and the branded version is expensive.

maryb

I have several years’ supply of paracetamol. When DH came out of hospital, he had a list of medications we needed to get a GP’s prescription for. They included paracetamol on the list and I crossed it off because I thought we could easily buy that. However the surgery messed up and prescribed paracetamol instead of one of the meds he actually needed, which was a pain to sort out. The pharmacist couldn’t take it back once it had been dispensed - or rather, if he did, it would have to be destroyed. So I kept them rather than waste them

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maryb wrote: »

I have several years’ supply of paracetamol. When DH came out of hospital, he had a list of medications we needed to get a GP’s prescription for. They included paracetamol on the list and I crossed it off because I thought we could easily buy that. However the surgery messed up and prescribed paracetamol instead of one of the meds he actually needed, which was a pain to sort out. The pharmacist couldn’t take it back once it had been dispensed - or rather, if he did, it would have to be destroyed. So I kept them rather than waste them

I keep getting prescribed all kinds of meds & other supplies that I don't actually need. Some of it I can nip in the bud before it gets dispensed, some of it slips through the net (back to the disjointed nature of the Trust up here). I think there is a lot of waste out there, but there's also a culture of a-r-s-e covering which means they'd prefer to over compensate rather than be a little more frugal (for want of a better word)